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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues his assault on the left.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers his speech during a news conference in the Independence Hall of Israel in Tel Aviv May 1, 2014. Netanyahu said on Thursday he would seek to enact a law to define Israel as a Jewish state, a step certain to raise opposition from Arab citizens who make up a fifth of the population. REUTERS/Dan Balilty/Pool (JERUSALEM - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3NELV
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At the end of my Al-Monitor article marking Israel’s 66th Independence Day on May 5, I quoted the responses of two past Israeli prime ministers, David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin, to the United Nation’s partition resolution of Nov. 29, 1947.

Ben-Gurion’s enthusiastic response in favor of the resolution represented the pragmatic approach, also called the “Mapai Party” (precursor of the Labor Party) approach: “another dunam, another goat.” In a speech in April 1955 to mark Israel’s seventh Independence Day, the country’s first prime minister said, “History is not made with words but with deeds.”

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