he had met ben-gurion. they didn't like each other. ben-gurion said, oh, he's just a politician. and he didn't like ben-gurion with his burning eyes and his big accent. but golda liked him very much. she saw him as this young president. she was very taken with that, and he was very taken with her maternal aspects and how warm -- and she could be very warm and grandmotherly. so what he said to her was the united states has a special relationship with israel comparable to our relationship with great britain. and if israel is ever attacked, we will be there to support her. now, this had not been the relationship between the united states and israel before or that. -- before that. but under golda this relationship really developed, and she made the embassy in washington one of the most important embassies of all the embassies there. she really developed that relationship. and she always remembered that before she left president kennedy, he took her hand, he looked into her eyes, and he said to her, don't worry, mrs. mair, nothing will happen to israel. and that meant a great teal to

and february one thousand nine hundred fifty five ben-gurion returned to political life.this time as defense minister. just a week after bangor ian took up the post one hundred fifty israeli paratroop as led by major ariel sharon. was sent to attack an egyptian army base near the city of gaza but. forty egyptian soldiers were killed. and many more injured. when bigger came back decided immediately to show that israel is not going to give in. this time a from the egyptian border the provocation some of the attacks by into traitors were on the rise in. a tub the mass of a year. or the need for a way in mass of some your himself from c.m. was the mob. in medina. what. and that has a let me answer. has alerted min of i are. claiming they were egyptian territorial waters not so close the terrans straight at the entrance to the gulf of aqaba to ships sailing to and from the israeli port of the land. to strengthen his army north of salt more weapons from the west at this time to no avail. so in a surprise move he turned east. russia's new foreign minister mr should feel off lost

regular arab american people with family members in palestine have been humiliated upon entry at ben gurion international airport in other border crossings detained for long periods interrogated and then deported that's also happened to many americans who are not of arab heritage who are just activists but it's happened in kind of an arbitrary fashion now israel's formalizing its plans to deny entry and one of the organization that they're targeting through the ministry of strategic affairs which is this new ministry aimed at countering the b.d.s. movement which it views as an existential threat to the survival of the state of israel is jewish voice for peace which has fifteen thousand members is a jewish peace organization that's almost two decades old and most of those members are jewish so israel has formalized plans to detain and deport thousands of jewish americans and that's something we haven't seen before it suggests panic on the part of the right wing israeli government you know and one of the things we're going to ask you is how is do you know how is the reaction actually inside o

before the revolution which was very similar to the israeli foreign policy which was promoted by ben-gurion, that you have to support and have good relations with other states in order to keep the enemy away from your borders and you have to take the, you have to have alliances with other states and why israel has good relations with ethiopia, iran, other countries, in order to contain their surrounding areas. so iran has been somehow following that idea. and also iran intervened in other countries affairs before the revolution as well, but, the problem is the fact that the way that they are doing that, the bragging about these interventions is very different from the shah's time. the fact that people are poor, people are unemployed, people do not have, one point, one out of seven iranians live under the poverty line. so when they see that iranians are helping the lebanese whose houses were destroyed by israel, it just creates a resentment, it just creates a resentment of course in their own government, but also in the, what is happening and also when they look at the more, i think, sophist