My LifeThis is Golda Meir's long-awaited personal and moving story of her life. For the first time, we experience through her own words how it happened that this amazing woman, born in Russia and brought up in Milwaukee, became the prime minister of Israel and one of the political giants of our time without ever losing the warmth and informality for which she is justly celebrated. She herself describes her career as Israel's labor minister, foreign minister, and finally prime minister, against the background of her conflicting roles as a wife and as a mother. This personal story of her own life inevitably reflects also the story of Israel itself -- and of its struggle to survive -- culminating in what was for Golda Meir the most desperate period of all, the terrible days of the Yom Kippur War of 1973. - Jacket flap. |
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... Egyptian representative had said in 1951 in defense of Egypt's refusal to let Israeli ships go through the Suez Canal . “ An armistice does not put an end to a state of war . It does not prohibit a country from exercising certain rights ...
... Egyptian representative had said in 1951 in defense of Egypt's refusal to let Israeli ships go through the Suez Canal . “ An armistice does not put an end to a state of war . It does not prohibit a country from exercising certain rights ...
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... Egypt . The United States and Britain may have felt a little uneasy about their courtship of Nasser's Egypt , but the Soviet Union had no qualms at all . The fact that the USSR was making possible the fulfillment of the Egyptian dream ...
... Egypt . The United States and Britain may have felt a little uneasy about their courtship of Nasser's Egypt , but the Soviet Union had no qualms at all . The fact that the USSR was making possible the fulfillment of the Egyptian dream ...
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... Egypt's consent that the international police force had been stationed on Egyptian soil , but I don't for a minute believe that Nasser actually expected the United Nations to do his bidding meekly It was against all rhyme or reason for ...
... Egypt's consent that the international police force had been stationed on Egyptian soil , but I don't for a minute believe that Nasser actually expected the United Nations to do his bidding meekly It was against all rhyme or reason for ...
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