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David Ben-Gurion דָּוִד בֶּן־גּוּרִיּוֹן | |
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| Born | David Grün 16 October 1886 Płońsk, Congress Poland, Russian Empire |
| Died | 1 December 1973 (aged 87) Ramat Gan, Israel |
| Political orientation | Labor Zionism Imperialism |
| Political party | Poale Zion (1905–1919) Ahdut HaAvoda (1919–1930) Mapai (1930–1965) Rafi (1965–1968) National List (from 1968) |
David Ben-Gurion (16 October 1886 – 1 December 1973), born David Grün, was the primary founder of the "State of Israel" and served as its first prime minister from 1948 to 1953 and again from 1955 to 1963. He additionally served in various cabinet roles, most notably as minister of defence 1955 to 1963 and as first chairman of the Provisional State Council of Israel in 1948. Ben-Gurion was the de facto Zionist leader in Palestine prior to its occuption by Israel and was a key figure in creating the Zionist entity and causing the Palestinian genocide.
Ben-Gurion was a fanatical Zionist, uninterested in the theory of Zionism but instead obsessively devoted to the organizing necessary for the creation of a Jewish State on Palestinian land.[1] He was uninteresed in the lives of the Jewish people, only in their usefulness to his ideology:
"If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter..."[2]
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- ↑ Samuel Farber (2020-04-21). "A Zionist State at Any Cost" Jacobin. Archived from the original on 2020-10-04.
- ↑ David Ben-Gurion (1938). Address at the Mapai's Central Committee: 'as quoted in Segev, A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion'.