History
The party was formed in 1984 by a merger of the Jewish Alternativa movement, the Nazareth-based Progressive Movement, as well as other individuals. It contested the 1984 Knesset elections, winning two seats, taken by Mohammed Miari and Mattityahu Peled.
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“History is the present. That’s why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.”
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“Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few facts of importance are added in a century to the natural history of any animal. The natural history of man himself is still being gradually written.”
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“Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history is to be read and written.”
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