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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... asked . The reply from Amman was prompt and negative . King Abdullah was astonished and hurt by my question . He asked me to remember three things : that he was a Bedouin and therefore a man of honor ; that he was a king and therefore ...
... asked . The reply from Amman was prompt and negative . King Abdullah was astonished and hurt by my question . He asked me to remember three things : that he was a Bedouin and therefore a man of honor ; that he was a king and therefore ...
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... asked me anything that I hadn't been asked a dozen times before . There were only two queries that were at all new . One newspa- perman asked : " Would Israel employ nuclear weapons if her sur- vival were in jeopardy ? ” to which I ...
... asked me anything that I hadn't been asked a dozen times before . There were only two queries that were at all new . One newspa- perman asked : " Would Israel employ nuclear weapons if her sur- vival were in jeopardy ? ” to which I ...
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... asked Dado to come in too . He had another suggestion - that we should go on with the offensive in the south . He asked if he could go to the southern front to super- vise things himself and for permission to make whatever decisions ...
... asked Dado to come in too . He had another suggestion - that we should go on with the offensive in the south . He asked if he could go to the southern front to super- vise things himself and for permission to make whatever decisions ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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