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Article: NEW LEADER IS REDEFINING ISRAEL'S DIVIDED RIGHT WING BREAKS ALLIANCE OF SECULAR HAWKS, RELIGIOUS PARTIES
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 23, 2006
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ARIEL, West Bank Israel's right wing is in turmoil after its
flagship Likud party crumbled in last month's elections, and its new
star has an unlikely pair of goals: pushing many Arab citizens out of
the Jewish state while expanding the rights of non-Jewish immigrants.
Avigdor Lieberman, a Russian-speaking immigrant from the former
Soviet republic of Moldova, is redefining the right wing. He has
built a following by marrying a deep suspicion of Israel's Arab
citizens critics call it racism with a secular nationalism that
appeals to Russian-speakers who want to blunt the authority of the
country's powerful rabbis.
Lieberman's rise has helped break the compact that long defined