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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... Middle East one day . Those people , those millions of peo- ple who even today have still not quite grasped the realities of Is- rael's struggle to stay alive and who are so quick to condemn us for not being " more flexible " and for ...
... Middle East one day . Those people , those millions of peo- ple who even today have still not quite grasped the realities of Is- rael's struggle to stay alive and who are so quick to condemn us for not being " more flexible " and for ...
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... Middle East as it might be if the barriers ( they had actually become barricades ) between the Arabs and ourselves ever fell . When the time came for me to speak , I thought I could do a lot worse than to repeat his words : With the ...
... Middle East as it might be if the barriers ( they had actually become barricades ) between the Arabs and ourselves ever fell . When the time came for me to speak , I thought I could do a lot worse than to repeat his words : With the ...
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... Middle East consists of an independent Israel and inde- pendent Arab states . This verdict will never be reversed . In the light of these facts , what is the use or realism or justice of policies and attitudes based on the fiction that ...
... Middle East consists of an independent Israel and inde- pendent Arab states . This verdict will never be reversed . In the light of these facts , what is the use or realism or justice of policies and attitudes based on the fiction that ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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