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Life and Friend as David Green (Gruen) in Plonsk,
 Poland. He is considered one of the three founding figures of Zionism beside
 Chaim Weizmann and Herzl. Ben Gurion was the major factor behind Yishuv's
 (a term that refers to the Jews in Palestine prior to 1948) military power and
 is considered as the founder of the State of Israel. At an early stage, he developed a passion
 for socialism and Zionism, and in 1906 he immigrated to Palestine. From
 1921-1935, he served as the secretary general of the Histadrut, the General
 Federation of Labor in Palestine, and in 1935 he was elected the chairman of the
 Jewish Agency which he held until 1948. From 1948 until his retirement in
 1963, except for a brief interval in the early 1950s, Ben-Gurion served as
 Israel's Prime Minister and its Minister of Defense. Ben Gurion displayed a
 great aptitude for learning languages. In addition to his native Yiddish-Hebrew, he
 also learned Turkish, English, Russian, French, German, and later in life
 Spanish and ancient Greek. Ironically, he never bothered to learn the language
 of the people amongst whom he lived almost his entire life, Arabic.

Palestinians and Israeli often judge Ben-Gurion based on how he had hurt/served
 their interests. Palestinians see Ben-Gurion as a cruel, insensitive, and a
 racist individual since he was the primary force behind their dispossession. On
 the other hand, many Jews, Zionists, and most Western people see him as the savior
 of the "Jewish people" who was the primary force behind the creation of the "Jewish
 state".

Zionism, as any other ideology, required leaders who were astute, articulate,
 and charismatic to formulate its vision, and in that regard, Theodor
 Herzl and Chaim Weizmann
 played the major roles. On the other hand, ideology on its own would become just an
 idea without the charismatic leaders who could implement its vision, and in that regard
 Ben-Gurion and Moshe Sharett
 played the major roles. After the implementation of the ideology, a new
 leadership must evolve to manage what has been created, otherwise it would stay stuck
 in the implementation phase. This is exactly one of the major problems Israelis
 face, they are stuck in Zionism's implementation phase, and rarely they have
 produced pragmatic leaders who can get their society to evolve to the next phase.
 Whenever Israel was able to develop pragmatic leaders (such as Moshe Sharett,
 Levy Eshkol, and even Moshe Dayan) who were capable of carrying it to the next
 phase, they were often branded as "appeasers", "cowards",
 and "naive". In a nutshell, Israel has been missing the Israeli
 version of France's Charles de Gaulle.

Based on our research, we can show that Ben-Gurion's personality was
 drastically transformed over the years, which can be broken down into three major phases as follows:

Idealism Phase: This phase started from the time he immigrated to Palestine
 and ended just before the Nazis rose to power in Germany in 1933. During
 this phase, Ben-Gurion is credited in building the Histadrut from the
 ground up as an effective political, military, financial, educational, and
 social organization that had roots in all sectors, almost a "Jewish
 state" before May 14th, 1948. During this phase, he made a lot of
 assumptions, many of which turned to be wrong. For example:
He saw Zionism as just, and thought that Palestinians and the neighboring Arab
 states would benefit from Zionism, and that therefore, they would welcome the new
 Jewish immigrants. 
He envisioned that Jews from all over the world would immigrate to
 Palestine in great numbers, and that over time they would become a majority or a fact on
 the ground. 
He did not think that Palestinians had any collective rights
 whatsoever, such as the right of self-determination. He did not believe
 that they had any sense of nationalism, therefore, they could be
 ignored. Sometimes he argued that even if Palestinian nationalism did
 exist, that it could be bought or bribed.
He contemplated Palestinian "transfer", where the use of
 force would not be necessary. He envisioned that Palestinians could be
 enticed to leaving their country in favor of the new Jewish
 immigrants. 
He did not envision Europe's Jews would die so quickly, and in such big numbers.
Transformation Phase: This phase dominated most of the 1930s and early
 1940s, when Ben-Gurion started to confront events that contradicted many
 of his earlier assumptions. From the quotes below, you will see how he
 struggled to transform himself, from an idealist to realist. The
 primary wrong assumptions that caused him extreme discomfort were:
He felt that the sword was hanging over Europe's Jewish citizens,
 which forced him to re-examine many of his earlier assumptions.
Jews could not become a majority without infringing Palestinian rights.
Zionists were the primary force behind the maturing of the Palestinian
 national movement. This became evident when the first popular
 Palestinian uprising took place between 1936-1939.
Palestinian national movement could not be bought, but it could be curbed.
In other words, he became a believer of Ze'ev
 Jabotinsky's famous doctrine, that of the
 IRON WALL doctrine. When Jabotinsky first came out with his famous doctrine
 in 1923, Ben-Gurion exploited its racist and inhuman nature to score political
 points against Jabotinsky (similarly, Deir
 Yassin's massacre had been used demonize the Herut and Likud parties in
 spite of Haganah's role in the atrocity, click
 here for details).

Although he passionately despised Jabotinsky
 (actually, when Ben-Gurion was the Prime Minister, he had refused to let his
 remains to be reburied in the "Jewish state"), the
 evidence shows that Ben-Gurion was one of his major silent admirers.

During this phase, Ben-Gurion is credited with restraining the Haganah in
 its actions against the Palestinian resistance during the 1st Intifada. Actually, he
 demanded that the Yishuv play a low key, for almost three years,
 despite of Jabotinsky's stinging criticisms. This policy was completely
 reversed during the next phase, where Ben-Gurion transformed himself into a hawk.

Implementation Phase: This phase started soon after WWII ended, and shaped
 his way of thinking all the way until the early 1960s. During this
 phase, Ben-Gurion felt guilty for what happened during the holocaust (as Menachem
 Begin did), and in a way also felt responsible. It agonized him that
 Jews could be led to the gas chambers without fighting back. This fact
 drastically changed him, and as a result he became cruel, insensitive,
 inflexible, undiplomatic, and quick to use force to send a message, especially
 to the neighboring Arab states. While self-restraint had been his motto
 during the First Palestinian Intifada between 1936-1939, he now became the
 complete opposite. As it will be proved from the quotes below, there are
 ample evidence to show how Ben-Gurion was the primary force behind the collective
 dispossession and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people during the
 1948 war.
Finally, it should be pointed out that Ben-Gurion's transformation was one
 of his major assets. However, he never admitted the transformation had happened, and he
 never credited the Israeli political Right for shaping Israeli politics (regardless
 if their policies were right or wrong). He was able to change course almost immediately
 when proven wrong. The questions which beg to be asked are:

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