Book contents
- Israel
- Israel
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Cartoonists Featured
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Jews: Caricatures, Cartoons, Comics
- Zionism: Ideology and the Building of the State
- Before Israel: the Road to 1948
- A History of Israel: 1949–2020
- The 1950s
- The 1960s
- The 1970s
- The 1980s
- 1980
- 1981
- 1982
- 1983
- 1984
- 1985
- 1986
- 1987
- 1988
- 1989
- The 1990s
- The 2000s
- The 2010s
- Collections of Works of Early Israeli Cartoonists
- Index
1984
from The 1980s
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2023
- Israel
- Israel
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Cartoonists Featured
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Jews: Caricatures, Cartoons, Comics
- Zionism: Ideology and the Building of the State
- Before Israel: the Road to 1948
- A History of Israel: 1949–2020
- The 1950s
- The 1960s
- The 1970s
- The 1980s
- 1980
- 1981
- 1982
- 1983
- 1984
- 1985
- 1986
- 1987
- 1988
- 1989
- The 1990s
- The 2000s
- The 2010s
- Collections of Works of Early Israeli Cartoonists
- Index
Summary
Menahem Begin announced his intention to resign in August and this came as a great surprise to the Israeli cabinet as well as to those close to him. Since the death of his wife at the end of 1982, he had been unable to function properly as prime minister and to provide leadership. The Kahan Commission Report into the killings in the Sabra and Shatilla camps had further called into question his leadership during Operation Peace for Galilee and his judgement in deferring to the approach of the defence minister, Ariel Sharon. The report and the cabinet’s decision, by a vote of 16–1, to accept the commission’s recommendations finally led to Sharon’s resignation despite Begin’s support for him. Sharon refused to accept ‘indirect responsibility’ for the killings in the camps at Sabra and Shatilla and remained in the cabinet as minister without portfolio.
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- IsraelA History in 100 Cartoons, pp. 212 - 215Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023