Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such inequalities, as well as the needs of the untended poor, the spiritual indifference of the older inhabitants to new sacrifices, and their unwillingness to populate and plant the open spaces, that most disturb Ben-Gurion as he surveys his country. But what disturbs others in Ben-Gurion's administration is the artificiality of Israel's prosperity. Israel lives on German reparations of about $60 million a year, which will run out in 1965; on U.S. aid ($40 million in 1955); on gifts and loans from world Jewry ($67 million in 1955). Unless economic reforms are made, warns...
...manufactures can find their rightful markets in such undeveloped nearby lands as Ethiopia, Eritrea and in the Arab states themselves. But to find such trade in its own area would require a great change of heart among its hostile neighbors and a great change in its own attitude. Ben-Gurion's victory last week was an indication that Israel does not propose to make such a change itself. This was a victory over his own Cabinet, but it was not necessarily a final answer...
...second most important for the U.S., after Western Europe; its loss, he recently said, would be "worse than the loss of China" to the Western cause. The sale of Communist arms to Egypt thus presented an active threat to U.S. interests in the area. It also provided Ben-Gurion with justification for his new militancy: "Israel stands in imminent danger of attack by Egypt," he told his Parliament last week. "The [Communist] arms are intended only and exclusively for an attack against Israel...
Says Nasser of Ben-Gurion: "I have the impression that he is responsible for it. It was not that way when Sharett was running Israel. Sharett is not a cruel man, and it may be that he is a reasonable man. But Ben-Gurion is under the idea that terror must be raised, and he speaks only of force-of forcing a settlement on the Arabs...
...Ben-Gurion speaks of Nasser in the same reluctant-enmity fashion. He told TIME: "For a time I considered Nasser a patriot and an honest man. He has a fine figure, a pleasant smile, a nice face-really he gives the appearance of being a nice fellow-and all those people believe he is sincere. But when I asked General Burns [the U.N. mediator], an honest man, to get one little thing from Nasser-an order for a ceasefire, he couldn...