Talk:Moshe Sharett

Please clarify/correct (Ben-Gurion's return)

The article says

When David Ben-Gurion returned to the cabinet Pinchas Lavon was a civilian adviser to Prime Minister Sharett. But when he returned from the war, he was presented with a fait accompli; it had been the convention, but no longer for a career diplomat, to be chosen to become a Minister of Defense, a portfolio once controlled by the Prime Minister's office, now taken by Ben-Gurion' '

First, it should be either Pinchas or Pinhas throughout the whole article.

Second, who is "he" that returned from the war? Ben Gurion, Lavon, or Sharett?

Third: what was the fait accompli that "he" was presented with? That there was a convention, or that the convention was not in force any more? (If "he" was Sharett, did he expect to become minister of defense? Because he was a career diplomat?)

Fourth: what was the convention? that a career diplomat would become Minister of Defense?

Austrian (talk) 01:05, 30 January 2021 (UTC)

Please clarify/correct (Lavon affair)

The article says:

Although Sharett was the official Prime Minister, he had, according to history, not been told about the escapades (although this is unlikely, for he and Ben-Gurion were friends). He soon discovered that operations were being prepared for execution in other Arab capitals. When the news broke over Cairo Radio in summer 1954, Sharett had turned to Minister for Labour Golda Meir for help. The Minister of Defense, Pinchas Lavon, and his Head of Military Intelligence, Binyamin Gibli, both declared each other as the responsible party. The real orders were transmitted in code over the radio in the form of housewives cookery recipes.

1. What does "according to history" mean? Is this what historians agree on? If so, it is not wikipedia's place to add "it is unlikely". But I assume there are contradicting claims by historians - if so, they should be documented/referenced. Also, the parenthetical remark suggests that Ben Gurion must have known about it, and that the only question is whether he told Sharett or not.
2. What are "operations prepared for executions"? Terrorist operations by Israeli networks, similar to the youth group in Cairo? Or did local Jews in other Arab capitals fear that they would be executed?
3. What was Golda Meir expected to do? What does "help" mean? Support Sharett against domestic criticism? Or help the captured youths in Egypt avoid being sentenced?
4. I assume the "real orders" refer to orders that were sent from the Israeli government to the cells of local Jews in Egypt, right? Why the passive voice? Is it still not clear who sent them?

Sorry for the naive questions, but I really do not understand what was going on.

Austrian (talk) 01:28, 30 January 2021 (UTC)