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Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion and others once looked forward to a stream of Jews from the U.S. who would pour into Israel to help the unskilled immigrants from Eastern Europe and Africa build the new country with their American know-how. But even zealous Zionists in the U.S. tended to send money instead-and many felt that their contributions entitled them to a say in Israel's affairs...
Rights & Duties. Ben-Gurion did not see it so. "There can be no rights without duties," he told the 1951 Zionist Congress. "What is a Zionist and what is simply a Jew wishing to assist the state? A Zionist must come to Israel himself as an immigrant. Today's Zionists have not met their test...
...leader of Zionism outside Israel fought back. He is Nahum Goldmann. 63, president of the World Zionist Organization and second only to Ben-Gurion in prestige among the world's Jews. Like B.-G.. he is noted for a percussion-cap temper and for scholarship (he reads 15 books a week, mostly on philosophy, astronomy, history and religious mysticism). Though Goldmann agrees that eventually all Jews should migrate to fsrael, he advocates a go-slow policy and feels that U.S. Jews deserve more recognition for their help (he even suggested that an observer from the World Zionist Organization...
...letters published in your April 1 issue, from readers who attack Ben-Gurion and Israel, are miserable. I'm not a Jew, but I know something about the Jews and what they have suffered, especially during the Nazi period. How can anybody in full possession of his faculties blame the Israelis for defending themselves against new dictators like Nasser, feudal Arab sheiks and oil kings...
...Israel's right of access to the Suez Canal. Nasser, in a chat to visiting U.S. editors, said he would not let Israeli ships through. In Washington, President Eisenhower indicated that the U.S. had made no such binding commitment on Suez as on Aqaba, and that furthermore, Ben-Gurion. in his letter to Ike, had not even mentioned Suez. This brought Israel's Ambassador Abba Eban around to the U.S. State Department to say that his government attached great importance to the canal issue, and expected U.S. backing.* Through Cairo's fog of propaganda and rumor...