DAVID BEN GURION & GOD
“We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid Galilee of its Arab population.”
— David Ben-Gurion (Founding Father of the State of Israel and First Israeli Prime Minister), from Ben-Gurion, a Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar (May 1948)
“THE BIBLE IS OUR MANDATE.” David Ben Gurion
“To me it is clear that God was ‘created’ in the image of man as the latter’s explanation to himself of the mystery of his own earthly presence. More of that in another chapter.
The Bible, taking man as deriving from God, defines Adam as God’s surrogate on earth. God surpasses man and the latter cannot even conceive Him as a whole. Yet, we are told, God is the embodiment of love, justice, mercy. When Torah speaks of man being in His image it means he must strive to possess these qualities”.
RECOLLECTIONS David Ben-Gurion
edited by Thomas R. Bransten
by Ben-Gurion, David (1886-1973)