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Golda Meir Quotes on Israel & Judaism
On Israel
“Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!”
“Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.”
“It is true that we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them.”
On the Palestinians & Violence
“We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us”
“We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.”
“A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.”
“It was not as if there was a Palestinian people in Palestine and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.”
On Compromise with the Arabs
“We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs - We have no place to go.”
“I guess we have no choice. Either we do everything that is possible, and may seem to others as impossi
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Quotes
1) The annual Leadership Award given by the Golda Meir Center contains these words from her told to Marie Syrkin: I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
2) Golda would frequently tell people: Don’t be so humble, you’re not that great.
3) After Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol received criticism for the way he delivered a speech before the 1967 War, Golda said: A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. Similarly, in 1973, she reminded us: A man who does not hate war is not fully human.
4) Also on leaders, Golda stated: If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
5) When accused of governing with her heart and not her head, she said in 1973: What if I do? Those who don’t how to weep with whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
6) The greatest challenge to leaders and educators, she also noted, is to bring idealism into the picture despite the cloud that hangs over humanity.
7) Also on educators, she said: A teacher is one who has a program — arithmetic, reading, writing, and so on – fulfi
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