Word: ben-gurion
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...camps continued. In Israel, the slayings and the Israeli government's complicity in those dreadful events produced a reaction of shock and soul searching unparalleled in the nation's 34-year history. Suddenly many Israelis were wondering if their country had lost the sense of righteousness that David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of the nation, had said must distinguish its actions and its role in the world...
...Prime Minister and the Defense Minister were struck dumb. Their silence thundered as it pained. The fate of Israel, David Ben-Gurion said, is dependent on its strength and its righteousness. Righteousness, not just strength, has to guide our deeds...
Israeli Prime Ministers David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir belonged to the mainstream of Zionism that took its impetus from socialist idealism. By contrast, Begin grew up on the teachings of Vladimir Jabotinsky, a Zionist "revisionist" who advocated a militant posture of self-defense for Jews. Begin joined Jabotinsky's paramilitary youth organization in Poland at the age of 15, and the experience was to shape his entire life. "A new specimen of human being was born," he wrote in his memoirs of those days, "a specimen completely unknown to the world for over 1,800 years, the fighting...
...represent a portion of the public that is getting smaller and smaller," crowed Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin last week in a stinging gibe at the opposition Labor Party. Indeed, the party of David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir, the party that led Israel from the nation's birth in 1948 until Begin's electoral victory in 1977, was in deep trouble. With polls showing the Prime Minister's popularity at its highest point since his conservative Likud coalition came to power, small wonder that Begin was threatening to call early elections that could give...
...thrown down the gauntlet, and we shall pick it up. He wants early elections. Fine. We shall go for early elections." Labor's chances of winning them depend largely on Peres, who has lost two elections to Begin in the past five years. A former protege of Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, Peres, 59, has worked at the core of the Labor Party for more than three decades. He was appointed director-general of the Defense Ministry at 29, and for 13 years played a major role in organizing Israel's defense forces...