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...that day-May 14, 1948 -David Ben-Gurion, standing in the Tel Aviv Museum beneath a portrait of Zionism's founder, Theodore Herzl, read the hastily drawn proclamation of the rise of the state of Israel. Four thousand years of Jewish history had passed since, in the words of Genesis, the Lord God told Abraham: "Go forth from your country . . . to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation." After centuries of wandering in the Diaspora, the people of the Covenant had returned to their Promised Land. No longer...
Pressure. The terrible irony of the Middle Eastern tragedy is that the early Zionists actively wished peace and coexistence with their Moslem neighbors. They never wanted the Arabs to pay the price for the creation of a Jewish state. As early as 1924, for instance, David Ben-Gurion declared: "We have no right to deprive a single Arab child, even if through such deprivation we shall realize our aims." In later years, as hostility between Israeli and Palestinian heightened, Ben-Gurion was to remark: "If I were a young Arab, I might also be one of the fedayeen...
...David Ben-Gurion formally proclaims the state of Israel. Next day six Arab armies invade the new nation, but within weeks are defeated by the Jews on every front. All but 160,000 of the 750,000 Palestinian Arabs flee the fighting to neighboring states...
...woman has never hindered me. It has never caused me any unease, never given me an inferiority complex. Men have always been good to me." Golda Meir, the 74-year-old Premier of Israel, talking to Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaei for Ms., decided to set a few things straight. Ben-Gurion's calling her "the only man in my Cabinet" was "just a legend." Had she ever killed anyone in Israel's years of war? "No . . . I learned to shoot, of course, but I've never had to kill anyone. I'm not saying it with...
Sales trips follow, with Sasounian sowing sample teeth and producing angry instant hoplites, to the delight or dismay of the likes of Stalin and Beria, Ben-Gurion, Nasser, SHAPE Commander General Alfred Gruenther in Paris, and Dwight David Eisenhower, who watches the demonstration on a quiet corner of the White House lawn...