David_Ben_Gurion

David Ben Gurion “To the Jewish people, politics was not a gamble, it was a science ” Yousuf Ghanem, United Nations Saudi delegate. David Ben-Gurion had one of the most difficult tasks in history. He had a dream of establishing a Jewish state which would be recognized by all. Alone, he would challenge the impossible, in order to achieve his goal. The first stage to his creation of the Jewish state would be accomplished by challenging and even rebelling against the British who occupied the lands. After gaining permission from the British, United States and the United Nations, which meant acceptance from the majority of countries of the world, David Ben-Gurion finally declared the creation of the state of Israel on May 14th, 1948. Only hours later, his country was attacked from the Arab neighbouring countries, which were much larger and better equipped then the new, inexperienced state. While most would give up hope, since the war seemed like an unavoidable failure and they would have to retreat to another country, Ben-Gurion saw this incident as his final test for maintaining a Jewish state, and was therefore willing to risk the fatalities in order to pursue his dream. Finally, after one year of jewish, israel, david, ben-gurion, state, british, war, people, palestine, after, world, nations, minister, victory, united, time, declared, country, began, zionist, prime, one, leader, jews, first, europe, declare, declaration, ben-gurion’s, army, arab, against, victorious, over, out