Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided – not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
GOLDA MEIRThere’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
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The only way to eliminate war is to love our children more than we hate our enemies.
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It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.
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There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn’t exist.
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I don’t want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there’s no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won’t die young.
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We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
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Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
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To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
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We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
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We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
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I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.
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A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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