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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 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 MEIR

Country Existence Invisble People
How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
GOLDA MEIR

Death Family Lost Place Return
I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
GOLDA MEIR

List Myself Routine Schedule Slave
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
GOLDA MEIR

Jew Place Secret Struggle Weapon
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
GOLDA MEIR

Negotiation Peace Road War
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
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
Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Promise Strong
Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
GOLDA MEIR

Children Devotion Husband Measurement Ourselves
Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
GOLDA MEIR

Compatible Pessimism Togetherness
It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
GOLDA MEIR

Cry Discover Easy Myself People Thinking
By the way, did you ever realize that if Moses would have turned right instead of left, we’d have had the oil, the Arabs would have had the sand?
GOLDA MEIR

Country Myself Right Way
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.
GOLDA MEIR

Fate Friendship Natural Ourselves People World
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 MEIR

Believe Brother Hope Ideal Judgement
This country exists as the fulfillment of a promise made by God Himself. It would be ridiculous to ask it to account for its legitimacy.
GOLDA MEIR

Country Fulfill God Legal Promise

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