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 149
... Arabs of Palestine and set about devel- oping the country as though it had no Arab population at all . When the instigators of the Arab disturbances of the late 1930s claimed , as they did , that the Arabs were attacking us because they ...
... Arabs of Palestine and set about devel- oping the country as though it had no Arab population at all . When the instigators of the Arab disturbances of the late 1930s claimed , as they did , that the Arabs were attacking us because they ...
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... Arab states are and always have been so hopelessly primitive in their thinking . On the other hand , what have we ever done to threaten the Arab states ? True , we have not stood in line to return territory we won in wars they started ...
... Arab states are and always have been so hopelessly primitive in their thinking . On the other hand , what have we ever done to threaten the Arab states ? True , we have not stood in line to return territory we won in wars they started ...
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... Arabs of Haifa ) ; and after the establishment of the state in May , 1948 , and the Arab invasion of Israel , yet another 300,000 Arabs fled . It was very tragic indeed , and it had very tragic consequences ; but at least let everyone ...
... Arabs of Haifa ) ; and after the establishment of the state in May , 1948 , and the Arab invasion of Israel , yet another 300,000 Arabs fled . It was very tragic indeed , and it had very tragic consequences ; but at least let everyone ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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