As reference, the purpose of this blog is to acknowledge the struggles of a nation always at war and not whichever god is greater though religion might have a part in uplifting the morals of a nation.
(Added on 23-10-2007)
In the May 17th of 1977 Israel election, the Knesset unanimously voted Menachem Begin(1913 - 1992) from the political party Likud with a landslide victory, to the helm of the government of Israel while he continued serving as a member of the Knesset Labor Party as a candidate for premeir election and a member of Foreign Affairs and Defense. File photo of PM Menachem Begin (June 1976 - August 1981)
PM Menachem Begin(1913-1992) was consecrated on 20th of June 1977 as prime minister of Israel and continued to serve from 1977 to October 1983. Though Menachem Begin is a trained lawyer at the University of Warsaw in 1935 with strong oratory skills and became a diciple of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, he remains a highly controversial and political divisive figure dating back before his neo political era when he served the Jewish resistance to the British Mandate of Palestine (1948) where he frequently held the central role leading to his meteoric rise in ranks within the resistance but who was frequently sidelined by the mainstream Zionist leadership for his views of Greater Israel.
In the War of Independence (1948) Irgun fighters united with Haganah and Lehi militia in defense warfare against the Arab forces. On May 14th of 1948, within days of the Establishment of the State of Israel Menachem Begin broadcasted a speech calling his men to lay down their arms so as to halt more casualties.
After the Independence War in 1948, Menachem Begin formed the Mapai and later the Alignment which is the forerunners of Labor Party till this day which adopted the radical nationalist agenda of a Greater Israel. During which time Menachem Begin would frequently be derided and 'laid aside' by then PM Ben Gurion and electorial senate for his radical views.One of the most acute confrontations between PM Ben Gurion and Menachem Begin 
concerns the signing of the Reparations Agreement between Israel and Germany in 1952 where Menachem Begin opposed the signing of the agreement which underwraps would signify the pardoning of Nazi war crimes against the Jews in WWII.
concerns the signing of the Reparations Agreement between Israel and Germany in 1952 where Menachem Begin opposed the signing of the agreement which underwraps would signify the pardoning of Nazi war crimes against the Jews in WWII. The reason for his strong opposition to the agreement was because his father Zeev Dov was one of the Jews annexed by the Nazis in 1941 to a river outside city limits to be shot or drowned. Being an ultra-orthodox Jew with a fixated and steadfast disapproval of the signing led to his expulsion from the Knesset for a few months.
(Added 24-10-2007)
In the year 1965, after a period where Menachem Begin failed to get electoral votes, Begin formed a coalition party with Herut and Liberal Party to form Mapai in 1966 which Begin led. During the 1966 elections, Begin was once more sidelined by the Knesset. It was then that Mapai was placed under government authority of Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and on 1st June 1967 that Menachem Begin joined the government of unity where he served a Minister without Portfolio until 4th of August 1970.
From the years of 1971 to 1977 elections was considered dry years for Menachem Begin who was frequently side lined by other candidates in the run for the Prime Minister's office. On May 17th of 1977, Menachem Begin (1913-1992) won the 1977 elections by a landslide victory. Menachem Begin was elected mostly based on his strong leadership capability, having fought in wars and enduring hard times through sheer leadership qualities. 
Despite his radical views regarding a Greater Israel, his first significant contribution as the Prime Minister was to negotiate the Camp David Accords with President Sadat of Egypt under the condition of a full withdrawal of IDF Israel forces from the occupied territory of Sinai Peninsula in the 1973 Yom Kippur War and thereby returning it to Egypt in June 1978 for political gains to encourage bilateral trade with US after it was stalled in 1976 which was the result of US refusal to address human rights matters in June 1976 with PM Yitzhak Rabin.
The conditions outlined in the Camp David Accords in June 1978 under the mediation of US President Jimmy Carter between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israel PM Menachem Begin was that Sinai Peninsular was to be returned to Egypt where else the Gaza Strip would officially belong to Israel.
On 20th of June 1977, PM Menachem Begin was officially sworn in as the 7th Prime Minister of Israel after PM Yitzhak Rabin finished serving his term as 6th Prime Minister of Israel from June 1974 to June 1977.
(Added on 25-10-2007)
On 11th March of 1978, 11 Fatah members slipped onto the shores of Tel Aviv on rubber dinghies led by 18 year old Dalal Mughrabi from Lebanon who killed an American tourist on the beach and also killed a taxi driver waiting to ferry passengers. With their quest for more destruction, they hijacked coastal bus 45 enroute from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and forcefully directed the coastal bus to Tel Aviv, on the Haifa link coastal road to Tel Aviv. 
Right picture of the coastal bus damaged in the shoot out.
During their journey, the group of 11 PLO members began firing at random from the windows of the bus and thus ensued a high speed chase with the IDF that ended in a shootout which left 38 civilians killed, 71 wounded in the Coastal Road Massacre and 9 terrorist killed which led to an Israeli invasion 3 days later.
Today's 26-10-2007 addition will be the addition of the highly controversial creation of the state of Israel, to access the blog page please click the link A Nation Against the Odds Chapter II
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Will continue soon/tomorrow to gather more substantial data from the midst of clouds shrouded with grandfather stories leading to no where.......
To continue the history of A Nation Always at War, click on the link Chapter 7 below
Links to webpage by Author : A Nation always at War I
................................ A Nation Against the Odds II
................................ A Nation Against the Odds III
................................ A Nation Against the Odds III(i)
................................ A Nation Amonst Hostiles IV
................................ A Nation Amongst Hostiles V
................................ A Nation Amongst Hostiles Chapter 6
................................ A Nation Against the Odds II
................................ A Nation Against the Odds III
................................ A Nation Against the Odds III(i)
................................ A Nation Amonst Hostiles IV
................................ A Nation Amongst Hostiles V
................................ A Nation Amongst Hostiles Chapter 6
................................A Nation in Retaliation 7
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