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 135
... British government was in the process of changing its mind about its responsibility to the Zionists stemmed from the tre- mendous respect in which British democracy was held by Jews who had been brought up in nineteenth - century ...
... British government was in the process of changing its mind about its responsibility to the Zionists stemmed from the tre- mendous respect in which British democracy was held by Jews who had been brought up in nineteenth - century ...
Page 162
... British war within a war had not been waged so fero- ciously and with such insane persistence . As a matter of fact , it was only when the British government de- cided - in the face of all reason or humanity - to place itself like an ...
... British war within a war had not been waged so fero- ciously and with such insane persistence . As a matter of fact , it was only when the British government de- cided - in the face of all reason or humanity - to place itself like an ...
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... British would re- think their catastrophic Palestine policy . At the very least we were sure in 1945 that whatever Jews had stayed alive in Europe would be let into Palestine . In the dawn of a new postwar era the White Paper would ...
... British would re- think their catastrophic Palestine policy . At the very least we were sure in 1945 that whatever Jews had stayed alive in Europe would be let into Palestine . In the dawn of a new postwar era the White Paper would ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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