This diversity of ideas extends inevitably into politics: now there is not only right-wing and left-wing, there is also a centrist party which leftists can deride as being too right-wing and rightists can disdain as too left-wing.
Before I go on, here are all the usual Goldblog caveats: AIPAC is too unthinkingly rightist to me, J Street is too naively leftist, etc. etc., but both groups represent legitimate streams of Jewish pro-Israel thought in America, and both are worthy of the president's attention.
Chaddi is slang for underwear, but also for rightist hard-liners.
Palestinians say the Israelis are giving far too little, and some rightist Israelis accuse their government of giving too much.
Instead, Palestinians complained that the Israelis are giving far too little, and some rightist Israelis accused their government of giving too much.
To the "they do it, too" defense, the animal rightist has a devastating reply: do you really want to base your morality on the natural order?
In 1981, five years after the death of Mao, the party ruled that the anti-rightist movement had gone too far; all but a handful of those labelled as rightists were rehabilitated.
Last week, Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said Germans had been too silent in the face of rightist violence.
Mofaz has also spoken of his opposition to Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights, and has even suggested that he and his family will move there (while still promising peace with Syria - go figure!), and is a rightist on Palestinian issues, too.
Rightists and religious Jews too are critical of its secular and liberal views.
