Word: ben-gurion
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...into existence defiantly in 1948-by force of arms and by proclaiming its own independence, by defeating five encircling armies and forcing the signatures of neighboring Arab lands to a U.N.-sponsored armistice. Israel had won its first papers in nationality at the insistence of one uncompromising man, David Ben-Gurion...
...midst of Sharett's delicate negotiations with the U.S. State Department, had "wrecked" the chances of getting U.S. arms. Public opinion abroad, argued Sharett, "is a precious moral and political asset which we must reassure and protect." The partisans of militancy, led by Ben-Gurion, also care what the world thinks-but, says Ben-Gurion, "Israel will stand or fall by what is achieved in Israel, not by what is said abroad...
Last week the debate was resolved. Ben-Gurion, wearing battle dress, and Sharett in his lawyer's business suit went to the Knesset (Parliament) together. Speaking before a packed assembly in Jerusalem, less than 500 yards from Jordan sentries' rifles, Ben-Gurion acknowledged that "security problems are bound up with foreign policy" and implied that he might have erred in ordering the Syrian raid when he did. But he defended Israel's determination to strike out at its enemy "with all the means at our disposal," whenever it felt the need. Ben-Gurion thus was firmly...
...decision owed much to the powerful will of David Ben-Gurion, who, at 69, looks like an Old Testament patriarch with white hair foaming up from each side of his thrusting head. A Zionist and Socialist visionary, a prophet who packs a pistol, Ben-Gurion led the republic for its first six years until, frustrated by party niggling in his coalition, he retired to live in the pioneer settlement of Sde Boker on the southern desert. Eleven months ago he dramatically returned to politics on the eve of elections, hoping to win decisive control of Parliament but achieving only...
...Cemeteries. Ben-Gurion is the kind of man who provokes strong reactions. "He is a man nobody can talk to, reason with or deal with," says Jordan's Education Minister Auni Abdel Hadi. Admirers call him another Churchill; others, like one State Department official, consider him "the most dangerous man in the Middle East." "Ben-Gurion is not a full man," says Sheik Farouki, leader of Arab refugees in Jericho. "He is a poet . . . not a man of facts. He wanted to build a new nation by raiding cemeteries and making a people from the bones of history." Says...