Word: ben-gurion
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...Israel itself, after the first satisfaction, misgivings began to be heard. The independent newspaper Haaretz took note of the fact that the raid happened while Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett, a moderate, was out of the country, and accused tough-minded Premier David Ben-Gurion of an unconstitutional act in ordering the raid without consulting a single Cabinet member in advance. This, said Haaretz, "brought Israel dangerously close to dictatorship by the chief of government . . . How can Israel succeed in persuading the world that she resorts to force only when her security and integrity are at stake...
...positive that the British Foreign Office would like to carve up their country into tidbits for the Arab states. The most overworked word in Israel last week was "Munich," and the most popular slogan "We have no Benes for Britain." Appearing in Parliament in khaki battle dress, Premier David Ben-Gurion rasped out against "dismemberment of Israel [and] a grant of reward to the "Arab aggressors of 1948 . . . Israel will not yield an inch." The defiant speech caught the spirit of the streets: the mood seemed to be that Israel might find itself without friends, and might even find itself...
...broke the edgy calm along the Middle East's tensest frontier last week. Yet this skirmish disturbed many Isaelis more than the bloody battles at Gaza and El Auja. What mattered most to them was the site of battle: Elath, a new town which Premier David Ben-Gurion likes to call Israel's own "up-and-coming Los Angeles...
Cocking a belligerent eye at the coastal guns which Egyptians have already installed on islands commanding the narrow waters that lead to Elath, Prime Minister Ben-Gurion warned: "We will assure freedom of passage to the Indian Ocean if necessary with the help of Israel's navy, air force and army." Last week the Israeli government hotly rejected Sir Anthony Eden's proposals to work out a "compromise" peace by border adjustments. Reason: such compromise, the Israelis fear, might cost them the fast rising southern port that has become the dearest prize and symbol of 1955 Zionism...
Under Cover of Oratory. From the top down, the Israelis took special trouble to achieve maximum surprise. That morning David Ben-Gurion, the aging (68) lion of Judah who led the nation to victory in the 1948 war, went before the Knesset in Jerusalem as Israel's Premier-designate. Returning to office with a makeshift majority including both left-wing freethinkers and hardshell Sabbatarians, Ben-Gurion looked rumpled and tired. He made his speech sitting down, paused frequently, and once asked the indulgence of the house while he rested. "I am prepared," he said, "to meet with the Prime...