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 308
... military government , with its garrison , was going to return to Gaza . There was nothing I could do or say . I just sat there , biting my lip , not even able to look at the handsome Mr. Cabot Lodge while he pacified all those who had ...
... military government , with its garrison , was going to return to Gaza . There was nothing I could do or say . I just sat there , biting my lip , not even able to look at the handsome Mr. Cabot Lodge while he pacified all those who had ...
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Golda Meir. more , of Egypt's military equipment had been destroyed . Even Nasser , not the most accurate of men ... military funerals again , many of them the funerals of boys whose fathers or older brothers had fallen in the War of ...
Golda Meir. more , of Egypt's military equipment had been destroyed . Even Nasser , not the most accurate of men ... military funerals again , many of them the funerals of boys whose fathers or older brothers had fallen in the War of ...
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... 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 ...
Contents
A Political Adolescence | 30 |
Choose Palestine | 53 |
The Start of a New Life | 75 |
Copyright | |
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