You Know Youre Dating a Palestinian Man When

Many accuse me of conducting public diplomacy with my eye instead of my head. Well, what if I practise? … Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to express mirth either.

Golda Meir, born Golda Mabovitz (גולדה מאיר‎; 3 May 1898 – 8 Dec 1978), was an Israeli politician and one of the founders of the Land of Israel. She served as Minister of Labor, Foreign Minister, and equally the 4th Prime Minister of Israel.

Quotes [edit]

We don't thrive on military acts. We exercise them because we have to, and thank God nosotros are efficient.

Nosotros hate war. We practise non rejoice in victories. Nosotros rejoice when a new kind of cotton wool is grown, and when strawberries bloom in State of israel.

Above all, this country is our own. … Being a Jew is no problem here.

I am a Palestinian, from 1921 to 1948, I carried a Palestinian passport.

• It is a dreadful thing to run into the dead city. Side by side to the port I institute children, women, the old, waiting for a way to leave. I entered the houses, in that location were houses where the coffee and pita breadstuff were left on the table, and I could not avoid [thinking] that this, indeed, had been the picture in many Jewish towns [i.due east., in Europe, during World War 2]'.
  • As acting head of the Jewish Agency Political Section visited Arab Haifa and reported to the Jewish Bureau Executive (half-dozen May 1948); equally quoted in "The birth of the Palestinian Refuge problem revisited" by Benny Morris, p. 309/10 of 2nd Edition 2004, citing Protocol of meeting of JAE, 6 May 1948, CZA 45/ii

• My delegation cannot refrain from speaking on this question — we who take such an intimate knowledge of boxcars and of deportations to unknown destinations that nosotros cannot exist silent.
  • On Soviet deportment in Hungary to the Un General Associates (21 November 1956)^{[specific citation needed]}

• When peace comes we will perhaps in time exist able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, simply information technology will exist harder for u.s.a. to forgive them for having forced usa to kill their sons.
  • as quoted in A State of Our Own : An Oral Autobiography (1973) edited by Marie Syrkin, p. 242
    • Harvey Rachlin was unable to find a primary source for this quote and the one beneath The Jewish Press - The Mystery of Golda's Aureate Gems
  • Variants:
  • Peace will come when the Arabs will beloved their children more than they hate us.
    • as quoted in A Land of Our Own : An Oral Autobiography (1973) edited past Marie Syrkin, p. 242
  • Peace volition come up to the Middle East when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.
    • As quoted in Media Bias and the Centre East (2003) by Paul Carlson, p. x
  • Peace will come up when the Arabs start to love their children more than they hate u.s.a..
    • Every bit quoted in The Agony of the Promised Land (2004) past Joshua Levy, Ch. 23 "The Promise for Peace", p. 187
  • We can forgive [them] for killing our children. Nosotros cannot forgive them from forcing us to kill their children. We will only take peace with [them] when they love their children more than they hate us.
    • As attributed in an Anti-Defamation League advertisement that ran in the Hollywood Reporter. Ali Abunimah's blog, electronicIntifada.cyberspace, 25 Baronial 2014

• Whatever one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees dorsum must besides say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall non allow this happen.
  • Speech to the Knesset, reported in Ner (October 1961)

• There were no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War, and and so it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was non as though at that place was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and nosotros came and threw them out and took their land abroad from them. They did not be.
  • Every bit quoted in Dominicus Times (15 June 1969), also in The Washington Postal service (xvi June 1969)

• We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because nosotros have to, and give thanks God nosotros are efficient.
  • Vogue (July 1969)

• We have always said that in our state of war with the Arabs nosotros had a surreptitious weapon — no alternative. The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The merely place nosotros could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
  • As quoted in LIFE magazine (three Oct 1969), p. 32

• It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. Nosotros don't want victories anymore.
  • As quoted in LIFE magazine (iii October 1969), p. 32

• When were Palestinians born? What was all of this area earlier the First World War when United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland got the Mandate over Palestine? What was Palestine, then? Palestine was then the area between the Mediterranean and the Iraqian edge. Eastern W Bank was Palestine. I am a Palestinian, from 1921 to 1948, I carried a Palestinian passport. In that location was no such matter in this area as Jews, and Arabs, and Palestinians, At that place were Jews and Arabs.
  • "Iron Lady of Israeli politics" Thames TV (1970)

• I have given instructions that I be informed every time one of our soldiers is killed, even if information technology is in the centre of the night. When President Nasser leaves instructions that he is to be awakened in the middle of the night if an Egyptian soldier is killed, there will exist peace.^[1]

• [The Soviet authorities] is the most realistic regime in the earth — no ethics.^[2]

• Nosotros owe a responsibility non but to those who are in Israel but also to those generations that are no more, to those millions who have died within our lifetime, to Jews all over the earth, and to generations of Jews to come. Nosotros detest state of war. Nosotros exercise not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton fiber is grown, and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
  • Equally quoted in Every bit Good as Golda : The Warmth and Wisdom of State of israel's Prime Minister (1970) edited by State of israel Shenker and Mary Shenker, p. 28

• When peace comes, we will perchance in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, only it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.
  • Press conference in London (1969), equally quoted in A Land of Our Ain : An Oral Autobiography (1973) edited past Marie Syrkin, p. 242

• This country exists as the fulfillment of a hope made by God Himself. Information technology would be ridiculous to inquire it to account for its legitimacy.
  • As quoted in Le Monde (15 October 1971)

• Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't deport children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.
  • As quoted in Newsweek (23 Oct 1972)

• Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem merely cannot exist. This city volition non be divided — not one-half and half, not 60-40, non 75-25, cypher.
  • Time (xix Feb 1973)

• Allow me tell y'all something that nosotros Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the ane spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
  • At a dinner honoring West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, as reported in The New York Times (10 June 1973)
  • Unsourced variants: Moses dragged u.s.a. for 40 years through the desert to bring u.s. to the one place in the Heart Due east where there was no oil.
    Moses dragged us through the desert for 40 years to bring us to the 1 identify in the Center E where there was no oil.

• In Israel, we read from correct to left.
  • To Henry Kissinger, US Secretarial assistant of State, who had written her that he considers himself 'an American outset, Secretary of State 2d, and a Jew third'^[three]

• To exist or non to be is not a question of compromise. Either you lot be or you don't be.
  • When questioned on Israel'southward futurity, in The New York Times (12 Dec 1974)

• Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew tin never allow himself.
  • The Observer (29 December 1974)

• It is non just a matter, I believe, of religious observance and practice. To me, beingness Jewish means and has e'er meant being proud to exist role of a people that has maintained its distinct identity for more than 2,000 years, with all the pain and torment that has been inflicted upon it.
  • My Life (1975), p. 459

• I am also grateful that I live in a country whose people take learned how to get on living in a sea of hatred without antisocial those who want to destroy them and without abandoning their own vision of peace. To have learned this is a peachy art, the prescription for which is not written downwardly anywhere. Information technology is part of our mode of life in Israel. Finally, I wish to say that from the fourth dimension I came to Palestine as a young woman, nosotros have been forced to choose between what is more dangerous and what is less dangerous for united states of america. At times we take all been tempted to give in to diverse pressures and to accept proposals that might guarantee us a petty quiet for a few months, or maybe fifty-fifty for a few years, but that could just lead united states of america eventually into even greater peril.
  • My Life (1975), p. 459

• One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does non fit the present.
  • My Life (1975), p. 231

• I don't know why you employ a fancy French word like détente when there'southward a good English phrase for it — cold war.
  • As quoted in Newsweek (19 January 1976)

• What exercise you lot proceeds, Soviet Marriage, from this miserable policy? Where is your decency? Would it exist a disgrace for yous to surrender this battle?
  • On the suppression of liberty of Jews in the USSR to the World Briefing on Soviet Jewry, Brussels, in The New York Times (twenty Feb 1976)

• Above all, this state is our ain. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Existence a Jew is no problem here.
  • On 30th anniversary of the founding of Israel, in International Herald Tribune (11 May 1978)

• A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only homo' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much incertitude that whatsoever man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the authorities!
  • Yadid, Judd (2015-05-03). Israel'southward Iron Lady unfiltered: 17 Golda Meir quotes on her 117th birthday (in English language). Haaretz.

Fallaci interview (1973) [edit]

Interview with Oriana Fallaci published in Ms. magazine (April 1973)

• Information technology'due south no blow 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.

• I thought that a Jewish state would be free of the evils afflicting other societies: theft, murder, prostitution... But now we have them all. And that'southward a thing that cuts to the heart ...

• How can I explain the divergence to me between America and Russia?... the America I've known is a identify where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russian federation I've known is a identify where men on horseback slaughter immature Socialists and Jews.

• From Russia I didn't bring out a unmarried happy memory, only deplorable, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging immature Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror ...

• America is a groovy country. It has many shortcomings, many social inequalities, and it'due south tragic that the problem of the blacks wasn't solved fifty or even a hundred years ago, just it'southward still a great country, a country full of opportunities, of freedom! Does it seem zippo to you to be able to say what you like, fifty-fifty against the government, the Establishment?

• Those nuts that burn their bras and walk effectually all disheveled and hate men? They're crazy. Crazy.

• I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

• I desire to see a film, they send the Israeli army reserves to escort me! What kind of life is this?

• Manner is an imposition, a rein on liberty.

• What person with any sense likes himself? I know myself too well to like myself.

• I prefer to stay alive and exist criticized than be sympathized.

Quotes almost Meir [edit]

• Golda is the best man in my Cabinet.
  • David Ben-Gurion, quoted in Terry Morris, Shalom Golda (1971), p. 138

External links [edit]

• Profile at Israeli Prime Minister's Part
• Knesset profile
• Profile at Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Profile at Women'south International Middle
• "1969 : Israel elects showtime female leader" BBC News
• Picturing Golda Meir — Photographs from the Collection at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Libraries

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