Posts Tagged ‘David Ben Gurion’

Vanunu on Israeli Television

Vanunu on Israeli Television by Stephen Lendman Heroic whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu paid dearly for revealing Israel is nuclear armed and dangerous – its secret program dating from the 1950s. It won’t discuss or explain anything about it publicly. Nuclear ambiguity is official policy. […]

Israel’s new government “partly ridiculous, partly terrifying”

By Uri Avnery The battle is over. The dust has settled. A new government – partly ridiculous, partly terrifying – has been installed. It is time to take stock. The net result is that Israel has given up all pretence of desiring peace and that Israeli democracy has suffered a blow from which it may […]

Dimona: Israel’s ‘Little Hiroshima’

In the early 1950s, after Israel had fought a desperate war of independence in which thousands of Israelis died to ensure the founding of the State, David Ben Gurion, its first prime minister, decided the nation required an existential trump card to guarantee its survival. In 1955, he tasked his chief aide, Shimon Peres, with […]

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