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 115
... never stop asking it . Were they proud of me , then or later ? I like to think so , of course , but I am not really ... never came back without presents ; but I was also never free of the feeling that I was injuring them in some way ...
... never stop asking it . Were they proud of me , then or later ? I like to think so , of course , but I am not really ... never came back without presents ; but I was also never free of the feeling that I was injuring them in some way ...
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... never regret it . " I think that excerpts of that cross - examination by Major Baxter tell more about the British attitude and behavior toward us in 1943 than anything I could write about it now . Here is part of the report that ...
... never regret it . " I think that excerpts of that cross - examination by Major Baxter tell more about the British attitude and behavior toward us in 1943 than anything I could write about it now . Here is part of the report that ...
Page 294
... never considered him a friend of Israel , and although I tried hard not to show it , I expect he sensed my feeling that he was less than neutral as far as the situation in the Middle East was concerned . If the Arabs said no to ...
... never considered him a friend of Israel , and although I tried hard not to show it , I expect he sensed my feeling that he was less than neutral as far as the situation in the Middle East was concerned . If the Arabs said no to ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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