Menachem Begin, a member of the opposition (to Rabin’s Labor government) in 1976, declared to the Knesset:
“We are no empire. We are but a small nation… but after all that has befallen our nation throughout all the generations and not the least the generation of the Holocaust - we declare that if there be anyone anywhere who is persecuted, or humiliated or threatened or abducted, is in any way endangered simply because he or she is a Jew then let the whole world know that we, Israel, the Jewish State, shall marshal all our strength to come...
