Word: ben-gurion
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...study of the Jews during the Spanish Inquisition, was published to acclaim last year. Called Bibi from childhood, after a cousin, Netanyahu inherited his right-wing politics from his father, a disciple of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, the founder of Revisionist Zionism. To members of that movement even David Ben-Gurion was not sufficiently nationalist. Netanyahu can be touchy about his family. Last week his mother lent a Time photographer six pictures of him as a youngster, then called urgently at 1 a.m. to say he insisted on vetting them. Over the phone Netanyahu forbade the use of a photo that...
...Friday, May 14, 1948, the leaders of the Jewish settlement in Israel assembled in the Tel Aviv Museum, and David Ben-Gurion read out the Scroll of Independence: "By virtue of our national and intrinsic right and on the strength of the resolution of the United Nations General Assembly we hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, which shall be known as the State of Israel...
While Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion condemned the massacre, Chaim Weizmann, Israel's first president, described the Palestinian exodus as "a miraculous simplification of Israel's tasks." I wonder what "miracle" Mr. Weizmann was referring to. The beginning of life is miraculous; its cruel...
...Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, said in an article in the New York Times: "Yigal Allon asked Ben-Gurion what was to be done with the civilian population. Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture of `drive them out.' `Driving out' is a term with a harsh ring. Psychologically, this was one of the most difficult actions we undertook...
...unexpected change of mind in starting with less than everything. For too long both sides have assumed they operated in a matrix of power they could not control: the Ottoman Empire, the British mandate, the cold war. They are now free to live with each other, separate but equal. Ben-Gurion's definition of realism, like Joshua's trumpets, is blowing down the walls of Jericho...