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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Page 370
... peace with Israel , no recognition of the Jewish state and no negotiations . No , no , no ! Israel must withdraw , total- ly and unconditionally , from the territories taken in the Six - Day War , and the Arab terrorists who were ...
... peace with Israel , no recognition of the Jewish state and no negotiations . No , no , no ! Israel must withdraw , total- ly and unconditionally , from the territories taken in the Six - Day War , and the Arab terrorists who were ...
Page 392
... peace , not the fragile peace that comes with the kind of document that neither party has an interest in keeping , but the kind of peace that will last . We hope that as a result of our meeting we will have taken a significant step ...
... peace , not the fragile peace that comes with the kind of document that neither party has an interest in keeping , but the kind of peace that will last . We hope that as a result of our meeting we will have taken a significant step ...
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... peace . For once , we were not going to bury our dead quiet- ly , looking on , while the Arabs and their supporters were solacing themselves at the United Nations for their humiliation . This time the Arabs were going to have to meet us ...
... peace . For once , we were not going to bury our dead quiet- ly , looking on , while the Arabs and their supporters were solacing themselves at the United Nations for their humiliation . This time the Arabs were going to have to meet us ...
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