Word: ben-gurion
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...Goliath hard and good: David Ben-Gurion...
...fear of its impact abroad and among Israel's 190,000 other Arabs at the moment his troops were launching their attack on Egypt, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion suppressed the news of this modern Massacre of the Innocents. But he set up a private inquiry committee, and after its report, arrested the killers and compensated the victims' families ($500 to $2,500). Despite efforts to keep the secret, in tiny Israel the word spread, and shocked citizens pressed Ben-Gurion to make public the disgrace. Every political party sent petitions. Last week the old man finally gave...
Ashen pale, Ben-Gurion said: "I feel it my duty on behalf of the government, the police force and myself to express our profound concern that such an act has been possible here-an act which strikes a blow at the most sacred foundations of human morality drawn from Israel's Torah...
Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, for proving that a leader can still be both right and forceful...
...case falls to the ground." The main theme of Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd's defense was to show that while "it is true that we were well aware of the possibility of trouble," there was no secret agreement between Prime Ministers Anthony Eden, Guy Mollet and David Ben-Gurion over the timing of their respective attacks on Egypt, and that there was neither deceit nor fraud in Eden's declared objective of "separating the combatants" and "removing the risk to free passage of the canal...