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...What are the chances it will succeed?" asked Ben-Gurion. "Fifty-fifty," was the reply. At 4:41 a.m. came the command "Esh!" (Fire!), and the rocket lifted...
Just before dawn, a weapons carrier bounced over scrub-spotted sand dunes to a secret site near the Mediterranean. Out stepped Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Foreign Minister Golda Meir. Near the water's edge, a slim rocket loomed 40 ft. up into the night...
Israel itself was of two minds about Shavit. Ben-Gurion insisted that the rocket was for science. But Peres said that Israel had given rockets a high priority because of "grave defense problems." He added pointedly: "If other countries would change their belligerent policies, we would change our priorities...
Just after his talks in New York with Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion last month (and just before his trip to Vienna), President Kennedy tried to still Arab fears that any Democratic Administration, because of the heavy vote it draws from U.S. Jews, is automatically pro-Israeli. He sent off warm and tactful letters to the chiefs of state of the United Arab Republic, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. To Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Kennedy recalled U.S. support at the time of Suez, to Lebanon's President Fuad Che-hab he mentioned the 1958 landing...
Kennedy spelled out his ideas to Ben-Gurion in more detail. He proposed that part of the refugees be repatriated to Israel, part of them resettled in the countries where they are now living, and the rest be accepted as immigrants by other countries, including the U.S. Ben-Gurion replied that he would be willing to take back a few, perhaps 50,000 or so, but only as part of an overall settlement in which the Arab countries would recognize Israel as a nation. Presumably they would let Israeli ships through the Suez Canal and reach an agreement...