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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... ment was convinced of Stavsky's guilt , as I myself was . Arlosoroff represented moderation , caution , a balanced approach to world problems and , of course , to our own , and his tragic death seemed the inevitable consequence of the ...
... ment was convinced of Stavsky's guilt , as I myself was . Arlosoroff represented moderation , caution , a balanced approach to world problems and , of course , to our own , and his tragic death seemed the inevitable consequence of the ...
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... ment . But Gahal , intoxicated by its own rhetoric , had convinced itself that all we had to do was to go on telling the United States that we wouldn't give in to any pressure whatsoever , and if we did this long enough and loud enough ...
... ment . But Gahal , intoxicated by its own rhetoric , had convinced itself that all we had to do was to go on telling the United States that we wouldn't give in to any pressure whatsoever , and if we did this long enough and loud enough ...
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... ment for all that it has done for the tens of thousands of Jews who have gone through Austria from Poland , Rumania and the Soviet Union . But if it has decided that rather than do away with terror- ism , it will set terrorists free and ...
... ment for all that it has done for the tens of thousands of Jews who have gone through Austria from Poland , Rumania and the Soviet Union . But if it has decided that rather than do away with terror- ism , it will set terrorists free and ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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