In 1921, Takashi Hara, prime minister of Japan, was assassinated by a rightist fanatic.
Livni exploited this popular belief during the electoral campaign when she warned that a rightist government would destroy Israel's relations with Washington.
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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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.
During his first tenure in office, Netanyahu led a narrow rightist coalition government.
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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.
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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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.
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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So to cut income taxes by 20 percent, as Netanyahu has pledged, a coalition with Kadima is preferable to its rightist alternative.
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.
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