Word: extremists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under Berri's proposal, all foreign Hostages also would be released in Lebanon b the various extremist groups holding them...
...than carry out the court's order, Peretz resigned. On a radio show he then charged that Reform Jews were "leading the nation of Israel to destruction." Responded Rabbi Alexander Schindler, the North American Reform leader: "I reject his comments as a perversion of the truth. He is an extremist who wears blinders." Said another Reform spokesman, Richard Hirsch: "If Israel is the spiritual home of all Jews, we must be made to feel at home in Israel...
...weeks and months that followed, street vendors and socialites, businessmen and radicals all awoke from years of resignation to cry out their rage. Yet the official opposition to Marcos remained fatally factious, divided into more than a dozen self-seeking groups, each of them tainted either by extremist positions, associations with the government or long years of failure...
Does it make sense for the U.S. to seek moderate, as opposed to radical elements in Tehran? To be sure, on some domestic issues, such as land reform, the ruling class may have its moderate and extremist factions. But on such fundamental issues of life and death, war and foreign relations, there are no moderate groups or individuals in the government...
...thanked him. "Tell me, Tim" I said, "As a militant Islamic extremist, does the fact that the Reagan Administration arranged for arms shipments to Iran make you feel any closer to the American people...