There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
GOLDA MEIR
GOLDA MEIR
Golda Meir on existence
Golda Meir77 quotes“There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.”
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Golda MeirGolda Meir 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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Golda MeirGolda Meir We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
Golda MeirGolda Meir Don’t become cynical. Don’t give up hope. Don’t believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.
Golda MeirGolda Meir Men are committing the rapes. Let them be put under curfew.
Golda MeirGolda Meir Those that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
Golda MeirGolda Meir 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.
Golda MeirGolda Meir 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.
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