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Patient Mediator For much of his life, Nasser was an in corrigible conspirator, and his enemies were never benign. Former Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion said last week...
...Knesset sessions," read the familiar scrawl, "and I do not see any possibility in the future, either, of taking part. I am not entitled to bear the name of Knesset member if I cannot fulfill my obligation to participate, and I hereby submit my resignation." Thus did David Ben-Gurion, seated in the Knesset's first row, announce the end of a half-century political career...
...Ben-Gurion's Polish-born wife Paula, who died in 1968, once said: "Anyone can be a Prime Minister, but not everyone can be a Ben-Gurion." Her husband, whose last name literally means "son of a lion cub," was Israel's principal founder in 1948; he chose the name of the new country, served as its Premier for its first 15 years and, as "B-G," became a stern, uncompromising but well-loved father figure. Since 1965, however, he has become less and less active in politics...
After a dry-eyed departure from the Knesset, Ben-Gurion returned to the cool of his Tel Aviv home to reminisce with TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin about his long career. Ben-Gurion professed himself generally satisfied with his life. But the old man, who will spend most of his time on his Sde Boker kibbutz in the Negev, confided that he had found work on the land more fulfilling than statecraft. Among his reflections...
...average American Jew has no difficulty reconciling support for Israel with loyalty to the U.S. Obviously he rejects the Zionist formulation once put forward by David Ben-Gurion that "whoever dwells outside the land of Israel is considered to have no God." He can buttress his passion with reason. Israel is a democratic, modern, stabilizing force in a chaotic and brutally backward corner of the world. The Israelis have created a nation and made the desert bloom, thereby more than earning their right to national existence. Israel needs U.S. support to survive, and if Israel were some day to fall...