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On October 31, Israeli prime minister Moshe Sharett called on Dulles in Geneva with a list of “defensive” arms his government wished to purchase and renewed the request for a security agreement.
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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In 1946, when the British arrested and detained many Jewish activists, including Moshe Sharett, head of the Political Department of the Jewish Agency, Goldie Myerson provisionally replaced him and worked for the release of her comrades and the many Jewish war refugees who had violated British immigration regulations by settling in Palestine.
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On October 31, Israeli prime minister Moshe Sharett called on Dulles in Geneva with a list of “defensive” arms his government wished to purchase and renewed the request for a security agreement.
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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Upon his release, Sharett took up diplomatic duties, and she officially took over his former position.
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The Israeli politician Moshe Sharett noted in his diary that spring, “Again I asked myself if putting flesh on the assumption that we are on the brink of war and repeating it incessantly to the public was not liable, by force of inertia, to ultimately contribute to actually bringing war down on our heads.”
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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In late January 1955, Sharett received a cable from his ambassador in Washington, Abba Eban, reporting that “the U.S. is ready to sign an agreement with us whereby we shall make a commitment not to extend our borders by force, and the U.S. will commit itself to come to our aid if we were attacked.”
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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The point of the operation, Sharett noted in his diary, was “to set the Middle East on fire … to cause friction, cause bloody confrontations, sabotage targets.”
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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But the iconoclastic Sharett was among the very few voices of reason within the Israeli political establishment.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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Sharett died in 1965, and his diaries were published in Hebrew in 1979 over the opposition of the Likud government then in power.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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Sharett was an astute and honest observer, and in his diary, a pained and troubled critic of the country he led.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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