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Israeli Prime Ministers David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir belonged to the mainstream of Zionism that took its impetus from socialist idealism. By contrast, Begin grew up on the teachings of Vladimir Jabotinsky, a Zionist "revisionist" who advocated a militant posture of self-defense for Jews. Begin joined Jabotinsky's paramilitary youth organization in Poland at the age of 15, and the experience was to shape his entire life. "A new specimen of human being was born," he wrote in his memoirs of those days, "a specimen completely unknown to the world for over 1,800 years, the fighting...
DIED. Nahum Goldmann, 87, Zionist leader for nearly half a century and one of the most outspoken critics of Israeli policies, from Ben-Gurion's to Begin's; in Bad Reichenhall, West Germany. Co-founder and president of the World Jewish Congress from 1949 to 1977, Goldmann negotiated the 1952 reparations agreement with West Germany that resulted in payments of some $822 million to Israel and its Holocaust survivors. Goldmann repeatedly advocated peaceful coexistence between Arabs and Israelis, saying, "There can be no future for the Jewish state unless agreement is reached with the Arabs." And in July...
...Israelis are profiting from some ventures in Lebanon. Near the military headquarters in Sidon, for example, they have set up an El Al airline office. Every day, between 50 and 150 Lebanese buy tickets from Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport to distant parts of the globe. With the cooperation of the Israeli authorities, several travel agencies in Sidon are also doing a brisk business operating one-week tours of Israel at $200 a head. A senior Lebanese official last week charged that the Israelis had looted Beirut International Airport, emptied its duty-free shops and even confiscated...
...approved the operation and when this had been done. Prime Minister Begin, regarding the inquiries as a personal attack, angrily attempted to justify the military action. He also admitted that the decision had been made by Sharon and himself at a private meeting. Said Begin: "Even David Ben-Gurion had to make decisions of the same nature on his own." The explanation caused speculation among some Israelis that Begin and Sharon, fearing a defeat of the assault plan at the Cabinet level, had simply decided to proceed on their own. It also strengthened the view that Sharon enjoys too much...
...great store of credibility among Israeli politicians or, for that matter, among his military colleagues. Throughout his long and controversial military career, he has rarely been far removed from the front pages, and more than once has been accused of insubordination. Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, was forced to make a public apology for a commando raid led by Sharon, then only 25, that killed scores of innocent Jordanians. Ben-Gurion castigated Sharon for "his weakness of not telling the truth." A few years later, Moshe Dayan, then chief of staff, considered court-martialing Sharon...