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Herut – The National Movement

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “right wing israeli party”. Today it says “minor revisionist zionist political party in israel”.
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Herut or Herut: The National Movement is a right wing Israeli party. It is not to be confused with the historical Herut movement which is nowadays the main part of the Likud movement. In 1998 three Likud members of the Israeli Knesset , led by Benny Begin , Menachem Begin 's son, left the Likud over disagreement with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the concessions to the Palestinians in the Wye accords . They formed a new party and named it Herut , to signify their belief that they are the true continuation of the Herut movement of Menachem Begin. In 1999 , facing lack of popular support for Herut, Benny Begin resigned from political life. He was quoted as saying that he had become a "crowd leader with no crowds". Michael Kleiner replaced him as chairman of Herut, which joined Moledet and Tkuma to form a coalition, the National Union , which received 3 seats in the Knesset, one of which went to Kleiner. In 2003 , Herut made the first attempt to run for the Knesset on its own. It chose the Hebrew letters נץ, meaning "hawk", and the slogan "the 'hawkest' in the right". Kleiner's second on the list was Baruch Marzel , a former member of the outlawed racist Kach party. Herut failed to gather a single seat in these elections.1

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right wing israeli party

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minor revisionist zionist political party in israel

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