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 371
... military government , and none of the Arabs in the territories enjoyed having Israeli patrols move around in their midst . But the army kept a very low profile in- deed , and the military government - thanks largely to Dayan's concept ...
... military government , and none of the Arabs in the territories enjoyed having Israeli patrols move around in their midst . But the army kept a very low profile in- deed , and the military government - thanks largely to Dayan's concept ...
Page 381
... military equipment , conservatively valued at some $ 3.5 billion . Egypt was not the sole beneficiary of this Soviet lar- gess ; it went to Syria and Iraq also . But Nasser was certainly the main beneficiary . Two - thirds of all the ...
... military equipment , conservatively valued at some $ 3.5 billion . Egypt was not the sole beneficiary of this Soviet lar- gess ; it went to Syria and Iraq also . But Nasser was certainly the main beneficiary . Two - thirds of all the ...
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... military intelligence — and the almost equally total acceptance of its evalua- tions on the part of our foremost military men — it would have been unreasonable of me to have insisted on a callup . But I know that I should have done so ...
... military intelligence — and the almost equally total acceptance of its evalua- tions on the part of our foremost military men — it would have been unreasonable of me to have insisted on a callup . But I know that I should have done so ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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