The Shadow of Ben-Gurion
This Op-Ed was originally published on September 19, 1993
The final foundation for the monumental Mideast peace agreement was laid last month in Oslo, when Foreign Minister Shimon Peres of Israel shook hands with Ahmed Suleiman Khoury, a high official of the Palestine Liberation Organization. As the two men discussed a «Gaza-Jericho» peace plan, the ghost of Mr. Peres’s mentor, David Ben-Gurion, was surely present, the familiar leathery lion’s face aglow.
In 1933, the future founder of Israel shook hands in Jerusalem with another Palestinian leader, Musa Alami, a relative of Haj Amin el-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who was terrorizing the Jewish community.… Seguir leyendo »