I wonder if these "rightists" would support the freedom of country folks to feel at home by taking buckets of cow manure into restaurants and putting them on their table and the tables near them?
Politicians from the center and left who opposed the legislation, and some rightists who supported it, said it was intended to impede potential land-for-peace deals.
Shaul Yahalom, a leader of the rightist National Religious Party, which supports the settlers, said that such acts "undermine the moral basis" of the settlement effort.
Hopeful types also note that Lieberman may be brutal and a xenophobe, but he is also a pragmatist: unlike the more ideological rightist Naftali Bennett, he supports a two-state solution.
The hostility to Jewish existence implicit in the denial of the Nazi-produced Holocaust may spring from a variety of motives, but calling them rightist without any supporting information does a disservice to all--to "liberals" to "conservatives," to anyone who seeks to comprehend current events in terms of meaningful categories.
This is true even in France, where a socialist victory in this week's presidential election bucked the rightist trend with the support of the far left, but with the collusion of a far right that refused to support the center-right incumbent.
The Japanese were dismayed by what they saw as American support for rightist politicians, frightened by the risk of entanglement in nuclear crises, and fuming over U.S. control of Okinawa.
The history of U.S. intervention in support for rightist elements in Bolivia is long.
The Liberals Party government has just 34 out of 179 seats in parliament and depends on support of rightist parties, including the anti-immigration Danish People's Party (DF), to pass laws.
"A decade ago, it would have been inconceivable to have found a Parisian intellectual like the writer Pascal Bruckner supporting a rightist candidate like Sarkozy," David Rieff wrote in the Times Magazine at the time.
