Posts Tagged: David Ben-Gurion
What Would Ben-Gurion Do?
JNS.org - My colleague, Nave Dromi, disagrees with my negative view of Israel annexing some parts of the West Bank. My six-part argument, as spelled out here,...
Israeli President Lauds IDF as ‘Best Army in the World’ on Its 72nd Birthday
The Israel Defense Forces celebrated its 72nd birthday on Tuesday. Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, issued the order establishing the IDF on May 26, 1948,...
Israel Celebrates 72nd Anniversary of Declaration of Independence
Thursday was the 72nd anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel. Israel’s independence -- which came into effect with the end of the British...
Passover Guide for the Perplexed, 2020
1. In 2020, the battle against the coronavirus demonstrates human limitations in the face of greater forces, requiring a deeper sense of humility. 3,600 hundred...
Revisionist Author Tries to Distort the Record of David Ben-Gurion
Tom Segev’s well-written biography of Israel’s first prime minister, A State At Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion, is undercut by the author’s biases...
Revisionist ‘Scholars’ Seek to Distort and Disparage David Ben-Gurion
By ignoring millions of declassified documents from the period of the British Mandate (1920-48) and Israel’s early days that show the claim of premeditated dispossession...
What Will History Say About Netanyahu?
JNS.org - The numbers are staggering, no matter how you count them. Whether you say 13 years and 128 days or just call it 4,876...
The Sad Rejection of Ben-Gurion’s Vision
The rejection by Israeli intellectuals of Jewish spiritual and political activism, as exemplified in the preaching and actions of Rabbi Akiva, who was executed by...
David Ben-Gurion and the Meaning of ‘Mamlachtiut’
For David Ben-Gurion, the concept of mamlachtiut captured the perennial tension between the establishment of the State of Israel as an orderly and delimited institutional...
Most Israelis Disagree With Alan Dershowitz’s Support for a Palestinian State
ZOA was pleased to honor professor emeritus of Harvard University Law School Alan Dershowitz at a recent ZOA gala. Nevertheless, we disagree with his advocacy for creating...
Revisiting Walter Eytan’s — and Israel’s — ‘First Ten Years’
The diplomatic history of Israel as related by Dr. Walter Eytan, the first director-general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry (from 1948 to 1959), considered the...
New York Times Recycles a Ben-Gurion Myth
As press criticism goes, it rarely gets better than the two-stage demolition by Martin Kramer of a recent frontpage New York Times column by Max...
Charles de Gaulle and David Ben Gurion’s Defense of Israel
One of the most passionate and eloquent cases for the State of Israel is virtually unknown. Prior to the Six Day War, France had been...
Ben-Gurion and Bolton vs. the United Nations
JNS.org – Presumably, David Ben-Gurion would have disagreed with John Bolton on a number of issues. But the Israeli founding father likely would have appreciated the incoming...
