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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.

Golda Meir

We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
GOLDA MEIR

Deep Peace Side War Win
There’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.
GOLDA MEIR

Decision Difference Kill Oneself Worst
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.
GOLDA MEIR

Ability Fall Mark Short
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
GOLDA MEIR

Artist Enjoyment Glory Natural Praise Storm
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.
GOLDA MEIR

Compromise Question Yourself
The deserts of the Middle East are in need of water, not bombers.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Desert Need Place Water Weapon
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Community Fight Friendship Hands Jew Stone
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
GOLDA MEIR

Better Job Man Success Woman
Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
GOLDA MEIR

Allow Himself Jew Luxury Pessimism
There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
GOLDA MEIR

Existence Reality
If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
GOLDA MEIR

Feeling Happiness Leadership Place Politics Thinking
Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIR

Happiness Heart Laughter Sadness
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
GOLDA MEIR

Creation Happiness Kind Life Trust Yourself
I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
GOLDA MEIR

Children Day Study Weird Yourself
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 MEIR

Country Division Place
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
GOLDA MEIR

Memories Oneself Past Present Try

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