Mr Netanyahu is earnestly assuring potential rightist renegades that Wye is as good as dead.
In 1921, Takashi Hara, prime minister of Japan, was assassinated by a rightist fanatic.
D. and the purportedly rightist PAN combined forces successfully, backing the same candidates for governor in three state elections.
She noted that centre-right parties had come on board - even the rightist Gianfranco Fini of the National Alliance.
During his first tenure in office, Netanyahu led a narrow rightist coalition government.
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Livni exploited this popular belief during the electoral campaign when she warned that a rightist government would destroy Israel's relations with Washington.
So to cut income taxes by 20 percent, as Netanyahu has pledged, a coalition with Kadima is preferable to its rightist alternative.
Even Yisrael Hayom, the free newspaper owned by Sheldon Adelson that has eroded the market shares of Israel's leading tabloids, is not a rightist newspaper.
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His campaign will be deemed a success if the Labour-led peace camp wins enough seats to prevent Mr Sharon from forming a stable rightist-religious coalition.
Mr Netanyahu's overriding concern is to shore up his rightist-religious coalition.
Mr Abe has already made clear his admiration for the mayor of Osaka, Toru Hashimoto, who leads a national political insurrection with his rightist Japan Restoration Party.
But they are hardly the vision of Mr Netanyahu's Likud Party loyalists or of the other rightist and religious parties allied to the Likud in the present coalition.
Netanyahu's rightist coalition partners were appalled by his behavior.
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Nor does he want to snub Israel's Russian immigrants who provided the bulk of the votes for Yisrael Beitenu, the rightist-secular party under Avigdor Lieberman, which came in third in the election.
Labour participation in the coalition is said to give his rightist-religious coalition a veneer of respectability, which is why Mr Netanyahu lavished ministries and deputy ministries on half of Labour's members of parliament.
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For better or for worse, Israel Beitenu's rise and the corresponding collapse of the national religious parties has brought about a situation where rightist parties' ideological commitment is now tempered by political opportunism.
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But that is precisely what the BJP and its allies did on March 19: the Hindu rightist organization held a colorful song-and-dance pageant involving some 500 artists in a majestic 14th-century complex in Delhi.
Despite the resignation of Blair's chief political guru yesterday after a passport-influencing episode was revealed, the most that the small rightist minority is said to hope for is a gain of 80 seats in the lopsided Parliament.
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In contrast to Kadima, the rightist parties in Netanyahu's voter-made coalition share the Likud's philosophy both in terms of when to use force, and in terms of the diplomatic aims the resort to force are supposed to achieve.
Mr Hoffman, who helps run a terrorism research centre at the University of St Andrew's in Scotland, has argued that ultra-rightist militias in America, millenarian sects in Japan and Islamic fundamentalists in the Middle East are all representatives of the same trend: towards a sort of insatiable fanaticism which has no agenda other than destruction and revenge.
They calculate that if a rightist government is elected this summer, it will have an awful lot of unpopular work to do: both to get public finances in shape (not least under pressure from Brussels) and to cope with an ageing population it will have to take on the public-sector unions, slim the civil service and reform pensions, tax, education and health care.
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