We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.
GOLDA MEIRThose that perished in Hitler’s gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
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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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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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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 was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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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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From Russia I didn’t bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
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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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We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children.
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.
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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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Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
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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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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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