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Ben-Gurion
Continued from Page 5
and journalist was in Detroit
recently to talk about his
book. and its subject, whose
centennial is being celebrated
this year.
Ben-Gurion's most out-
standing trait, he says, was
his willpower. "I think
willpower was one of the
things that made him great.
He saw willpower as the sup-
reme quality of humankind."
That conviction was born of
necessity, Teveth believes.
"He was born a very, very
sensitive person. Departing
from a friend would be so
painful to him that he'd go
for a week, or even two
weeks, without him being
able to recollect himself."
World events equally af-
fected the young Ben-Gurion,
such as the 1905 Russian
Revolution which he wit-
nessed from Poland. "He saw
it mostly as a Polish affair in
Poland," explains Teveth.
"And he saw many Jews take
part in it. He suffered so
much that these Jews were
not working for Zionism and,
instead, they were giving
their lives for a false god and,
in his mind, a false ideology.
He felt so badly that he fell
sick in his bed. .
"This is my theory," Teveth
continues. "He decided that
he must do something about
being so sensitive. • That he
must toughen his hide."
Ben-Gurion accomplished
this goal through "willpower
exercises. He wouldn't accept
a veto from physical sur-
roundings."
By way of example, Teveth
describes Ben-Gurion's law
school days in Istanbul, just
prior to the outbreak , of
World War I. It is a college
student's nightmare:
"He was living on a below
subsistence level.. He hardly
had food. He had bouts of
malaria and dental abscesses
for lack of proper food. In
reality he was near death.
"Yet by sheer willpower, he
was able to master by heart
1200 pages of the Moslem in-
heritance law.
"His willpower was a tre-
mendous instrument. In a
way it was part of his Zionist
background. Herzl (the father
of modern political Zionism)
said, 'If you will it, it will not
be a dream.'
"Without the willpower
Ben-Gurion instilled in the
nation, it wouldn't be there.
In the face of enemies four,
five times bigger. It's sheer
willpower."
Teveth spoke at length
about Ben-Gurion's unique
gift for using "disaster as a
lever to win over public opin-
ion on political matters.
"This is part of his genius.
But we must remember that
we're not talking about
someone in the Swiss Alps or
in the suburbs of Detroit ob-
serving others. Ben-Gurion
was part and parcel- of this
Shabtai Teveth:
14 years of research.
diiaster. He was born into
it."
Ben-Gurion,
explains
Teveth, realized early on that
disaster was the one 'natural
resource belonging to the
Jewish people. He saw that
"the only way to create sub-
stance out of nothingness,
light out of darkness, was re-
demption out of disaster." .
In 1936, during the Arab
Rebellion in Palestine, Jews
faced extinction because they
were economically dependent
on the Arabs. "The only one
who greeted it heartily was
Ben-Gurion. He said, 'Here is
a good disaster. We're going
to use it.' In the face of great
opposition he mastered the
disaster."
He encouraged the growth
of an all-Jewish economy,
creating the economic basis
for a would-be state, Teveth
says. He convinced the -
British to arm the Haganah,
the Jewish self-defense force,
laying the groundwork for
the would-be army.
"He turned disaster into a
great achievement."
Teveth spent 14 years re-
searching and writing The
Burning Ground, which ends
in 1948 with Ben-Gurion's
declaration of the State of Is-
rael. Further volumes, he
says, depend on the expira-
tion of secrecy laws which
still govern the minutes of
the foreign affairs and de-
fense committee and cabinet
papers during those crucial
years.
"In order to see if Ben-
Gurion was a great world
leader, for example, I need to
see everything," Teveth ex-
plains.
Have Israel's friends over
the years picked up Ben-
Gurion's disaster theme in
their efforts to gather support
and funds for the Jewish
state?
"There is Yascha Heifetz
and then there are all the
other second fiddlers," Teveth
anweres. "They are repeating
something without under-
standing it. Ben-Gurion did
not want to use disaster to