"I Can Not Take it Any More" (For personal View only)

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"I can not take it any more" is the first and sole documentary portraying the tragic final decade of Menachem Begin s life.
On June 7 1981, Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered Israel s Air Force to strike Iraq s Osirak nuclear reactor near Baghdad. Begin was at his peak. Immediately afterwards he won the general elections and started his second prime ministry term.
One year later, in the summer of 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon. It was a limited operation, limited in scope and limited in the range of the incursion. But soon the war escalated to an invasion of Beirut itself, Israel s first incursion into an Arab capital, and Begin was deeply troubled by the high death toll. "Every morning I spoke to him at around five o clock, and I would tell him how many were killed," recalls Brig. Gen. Azriel Nevo, Begin s Military Secretary, "and I always heard a heavy sigh over the phone. Every soldier that died was a terrible blow for him".
The Lebanon War failed to achieve Israel s principal aims. It caused intense domestic and international pressure on Begin s government. Rumors were spread that Defense Minister Sharon had conducted operations without receiving the PM approval.
The Sabra and Shatila massacre in September 1982 was a turning point and Begin was compelled to remove Defense Minister Sharon from his post. Two month later Begin suffered a further crushing blow when his devoted and beloved wife, Aliza died while he was away on an official visit to Washington DC. Soon the Prime Minister s health condition deteriorated. He suffered from Dressler s Syndrome (Pericarditis, in which the immune system creates an inflammation of the heart mantle) and was treated with steroids, which often influences the patient s mental and intellectual abilities. Consequently, Begin suffered from a deep depression. He shut himself at his official residence and faded out from public life. After more then six month of withdrawnness, pains and depression, in September 1983, PM Begin assembled his ministers and assistants, made the famous declaration: "I can not take it any more" and resigned.
The Nobel laureate spent the rest of his life in seclusion, glimpsed in public only rarely. He died on March 9, 1992, after 9 years of almost total recluse, and was buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.

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