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  The Lavon Affair
Names were not mentioned, the affair was called "Esek Bish" - the affair of shame, and key protagonists were referred to as "X" and "the third man." Unofficially and through leaks, most people knew at least the outlines of the affair.
Lavon's resignation was also influenced by his tendency to order retaliatory attacks without the approval of PM Moshe Sharett.
In a Commission of Inquiry into the Affair published in December 1960, Pinhas Lavon, (the Defense Minister at the time of the capture of the spies in 1954) was declared not guilty of authorizing the operation.
www.mideastweb.org /lavon.htm   (8560 words)

  
 Lavon Affair -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Former prime minister David Ben-Gurion succeeded Lavon as minister of defense.
This inquiry found that the perjury indeed had been committed, and that Lavon had not authorized the operation.
This led to the expulsion of Lavon from the (Click link for more info and facts about Histadrut) Histadrut labor union and an early call for new elections which changed the political structure in Israel.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/lavon_affair.htm   (939 words)

  
 History of Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As a result of the scandal, now known as the Lavon Affair, Lavon was forced to resign.
Despite attempts to censor the details of the case on grounds of national security, the Lavon Affair led to a second scandal, and Ben Gurion's forced resignation due to the inability of the government to act due to political considerations.
In the following 1961 elections, Ben-Gurion declared that he would only accept office if Lavon was fired from the position of the head of Histadrut, Israel's labor union organization.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Israel   (4972 words)

  
 Lovearth.net - The Lavon Affair by David Hurst
This whole episode, which was to poison Israeli political life for a decade and more, came to be known as the 'Lavon Affair', for it had been established in the Cairo trial that Lavon, as Minister of Defence, had approved the campaign of sabotage.
Lavon denounced Givli's papers as forgeries and demanded the resignation of all three men.
When the truth about the Lavon Affair came to light, six years after the event, it confirmed that there had been a frame-up-not, however, by the Egyptians, but by Bengurion and his young proteges.
www.lovearth.net /thelavonaffair.htm   (1754 words)

  
 Lavon Affair and Rabin Assassination (Emanuel Winston) Dec, 1998
Lavon Affair and Rabin Assassination (Emanuel Winston) Dec, 1998
Certain similarities between the Lavon Affair and the Rabin Assassination suggest that creating an incident for political benefit has always been a key tactic in the Labor Party's arsenal.
PM Sharrett, pressured by the scandal, fired Lavon and called Ben Gurion out of his self-imposed retreat in Sde Boker to replace Lavon as Minister of Defense.
www.freeman.org /m_online/dec98/winston5.htm   (2058 words)

  
 The Official Website of Representative David Duke, PhD » Israel Honors Jewish Terrorists Who Attacked America
In the Lavon Affair, named for the Israeli Defense Minister at the time, Pinhas Lavon, the Israeli government launched a false flag, terrorist operation against American sites in Egypt hoping to provoke American bombing, retaliation and war against that nation.
Israel’s terrorist plot against the United States in the Lavon Affair was one greatest acts of treachery that any nation has ever committed against an ongoing ally.
It became known as the Lavon Affair or the Unfortunate Affair (Hebrew: העסק הביש pronounce: haesek habish), after the Israeli defense minister Pinchas Lavon who was forced to resign because of the incident.
www.davidduke.com /index.php?p=272   (1867 words)

  
 Lavon Affair updated
It was called the "Lavon Affair," after Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon, "Esek HaBish" or "The Mishap".
But by then most of those involved in the affair had been removed from their posts.
Pinhas Lavon resigned from the post of Defense Minister on January 2, 1955.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/lavon.html   (5418 words)

  
 The Lavon Affair
The trade union newspaper Davar observed that the Egyptian regime 'seems to take its inspiration from the Nazis' and lamented the 'deterioration in the status of Egyptian Jews in general'.
When the truth about the Lavon Affair came to light, six years after the event, it confirmed that there had been a frame-up — not, however, by the Egyptians, but by Bengurion and his young protegés.
The affair rocked the ruling establishment, split public opinion, forced new elections and contributed largely to Bengurion's eventual disappearance from public life.
www.serendipity.li /zionism/lavon_affair.htm   (2025 words)

  
 The Lavon Affair
When the truth about the Lavon Affair came to light, six years after the event, it confirmed that there had been a frame-up; not, however, by the Egyptians, but by Ben-Gurion and his young protégés.
On Christmas Day 1960, the Israeli cabinet unanimously exonerated him of all guilt in the 'disastrous security adventure in Egypt'; the Attorney General had, in the meantime, found 'conclusive evidence of forgeries as well as false testimony in an earlier inquiry'.
The affair rocked the ruling establishment, split public opinion, forced new elections and contributed largely to Ben-Gurion's eventual disappearance from public life.
www.the7thfire.com /new_world_order/zionism/mossad/lavon_affair.htm   (2470 words)

  
 Israel - Lavon Affair
The so-called Lavon Affair had its roots in an Israeli operation, codenamed SUSANNAH, which began in 1951.
The author's comparative approach may prove to be heavy going for the casual reader, but the politicization issue is certainly one that deserves serious study.
However, as Brody, PSQ 111.3, observes, the intervention in the Lavon and Wilson affairs was at least arguably "as much by the military as by intelligence."
intellit.muskingum.edu /israel_folder/israellavon.html   (636 words)

  
 Arab Israeli Wars Period 1948-1973, Ted Thornton, NMH, Northfield Mount Hermon
The idea for the coup was hatched by the British who, angered by Mossadegh's nationalization of British oil interests in Iran in 1951, pressed the United States to join them in an operation to remove Mossadegh.
In July, 1954, Israeli Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon instigated commando operations in Egypt in an attempt to depose Nasser.
The raid was authorized by Israeli Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon (of "Lavon Affair" fame) in retaliation for a raid by Egyptian intelligence agents from Gaza who killed an Israeli cyclist near Rehovot (see Kirsten E. Schulze, The Arab-Israeli Conflict (Essex, U.K.: Addison-Wesley-Longman, Ltd., 1999), 26).
www.nmhschool.org /tthornton/mehistorydatabase/arabisraeliwars.php   (7357 words)

  
 Nocturnal Escape   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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