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...DAVID BEN-GURION was one of the last of the seemingly larger-than-life national leaders who emerged in the 1930s and 40s. A few of these men--China's Mao, Argentina's Peron, Yugoslavia's Tito--are still at the helm, but almost all of them have been replaced by people like Leonid Brezhnev and President Nixon, uninspiring but still dangerously powerful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ben-Gurion 1886-1973 | 12/6/1973 | See Source »

Even more than many of his famous contemporaries, Ben-Gurion seemed to personally represent the history of the people he led. Born in Czarist-ruled Poland, he bacame a Marxist in his teens, and helped found the Workers of Zion party in Palestine. Throughout his life he sought to build a "light to the nations," an Israel that would be a model of social justice and democracy. From the earliest years of his Zionist agitation Ben-Gurion pleaded for agreement between Jews and Arabs, provoking right-wing attacks that called him a doctrinaire socialist and deracinated cosmopolitan. In the last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ben-Gurion 1886-1973 | 12/6/1973 | See Source »

...That Ben-Gurion felt this way was a measure of the tragedy of his country's history almost as striking as his failure as Prime Minister to find a way to reconcile Israel with its unremittingly hostile neighbors, or the Palestinian refugees who lost their homes as a result of its establishment. Today, after another bloody war, it seems as though Arabs and Jews--victims of historic developments they didn't initiate or choose--may be a little closer to reconciliation, but only a little...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ben-Gurion 1886-1973 | 12/6/1973 | See Source »

...Ben-Gurion is dead. But in the long run, the dreams he had as a young man--of a Middle East at peace, with justice, freedom and self-determination for all its inhabitants of whatever background and religion--remain the dreams that will have to inspire any lasting Middle Eastern settlement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ben-Gurion 1886-1973 | 12/6/1973 | See Source »

...David Ben-Gurion, Premier and Defense Minister for most of Israel's first 15 years, resigns and is succeeded by Levi Eshkol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Chronology of Trial, Triumph and Terror | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

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