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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (533)	1/16/2002 8:14:29 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (2) of 6945

definitely friendlier than in the old days when the Syrians and Egyptians were big Soviet clients One thing that amazes me about Israel is that somehow, against all odds it has survived so far. foreignaffairs.org snip Israel's first prime minister and founding father, affectionately known during his premiership as the Old Man. Ben-Gurion's house in Tel Aviv -- austerely furnished in every regard save books (some 12,000 volumes in 10 languages) -- gives the measure of the man. A social democrat who scorned luxury but could make deals with capitalists, an ideologue whose pragmatism trumped his passion, a secularist whose rhetoric drew deeply on the Bible and the vast corpus of Jewish religious literature, Ben-Gurion reconciled opposites within himself and within the new state. But the state came first: mamlakhtiyut, loosely translatable as "statism," was his coinage and his overwhelming preoccupation. The Old Man subordinated personal antipathies and doctrinal preferences to one goal: the creation of a durable polity for the Jews of Palestine. unsnip. I wish I was 10% as good as that guy. A real original thinker who made things happen.

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