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 177
... believe that they owed us at least that much , so that we could absorb the Jews who had remained alive . I also believe that Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust . And when the time was ripe , I was also in ...
... believe that they owed us at least that much , so that we could absorb the Jews who had remained alive . I also believe that Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust . And when the time was ripe , I was also in ...
Page 213
... believe that finally we will be victorious . That is the spirit of the country . But this valiant spirit alone cannot face rifles and machine guns . Rifles and machine guns without spirit are not worth very much , but spirit without ...
... believe that finally we will be victorious . That is the spirit of the country . But this valiant spirit alone cannot face rifles and machine guns . Rifles and machine guns without spirit are not worth very much , but spirit without ...
Page 459
... believe , of religious observance and prac- tice . To me , being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a people that has maintained its distinct identi- ty for more than 2,000 years , with all the pain and torment ...
... believe , of religious observance and prac- tice . To me , being Jewish means and has always meant being proud to be part of a people that has maintained its distinct identi- ty for more than 2,000 years , with all the pain and torment ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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