Volume 43, Number 8 · May 9, 1996
The Chances of Shimon Peres
By Avishai Margalit
Battling for Peace: A Memoir
by Shimon Peres
Random House, 350 pp., $25.00
Shimon Peres first met David Ben-Gurion in 1946, when Peres had just been nominated secretary of the Labor movement's youth movement; he was, in his own words, 'the young unknown.' Ben-Gurion was chairman of the Jewish Agency, already 'a legend.' Peres had to get to Haifa. There weren't many cars in Palestine at the time, so it had been arranged that Peres would drive to Haifa with Ben-Gurion. Ben-Gurion was silent throughout the journey. On the outskirts of Haifa Ben-Gurion suddenly turned to Peres and said: 'You know, Trotsky was no statesman.' Peres asked why. 'Because of his concept of no-peace-no-war,' Ben-Gurion said.
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