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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.

Golda Meir

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
How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.
GOLDA MEIR

Difference Explanation Jew Man Myself Place Young
You can get used to anything if you have to, even feeling perpetually guilty.
GOLDA MEIR

Feeling Guilty Habit Yourself
We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
GOLDA MEIR

Act God Military Thankful Thrive
How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
GOLDA MEIR

Death Family Lost Place Return
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
The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.
GOLDA MEIR

Hate Jew Ourselves Pity World
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
It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
GOLDA MEIR

Accident Cry Feeling Laughter Public
We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
GOLDA MEIR

Children Forgiveness Kill Ourselves War Yourself
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
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.
GOLDA MEIR

Affection Honesty Myself Possible Question Success
We will not forgive you for making us kill your sons.
GOLDA MEIR

Forgiveness Kill Son War Yourself
There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
GOLDA MEIR

Children Country Hate Love Peace
You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
GOLDA MEIR

Adversity Better Company Partner Yourself
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

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