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The world hates a Jew who hits back. The world loves us only when we are to be pitied.

Golda Meir

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Golda Meir
Age: 80 †
Born: 1898
Born: May 3
Died: 1978
Died: December 8
Former Prime Minister Of Israel
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Kiev
Golda Meyerson
Golda Mabovich
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We can forgive [the Arabs] for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with [the Arabs] when they love their children more than they hate us...
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Every civilization finds it necessary to negotiate compromises with its own values.
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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.
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Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also 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 not let this happen.
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But the individual was not a tool for something. He was the maker of tools. He was the one who must build. Even for the best purpose it is criminal to turn an individual into simply a means for some ultimate end. A society in which the dignity of the individual is destroyed cannot hope to be a decent society.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
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There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.
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Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
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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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Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided - not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
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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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How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.
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Those that perished in Hitler's gas chambers were the last Jews to die without standing up to defend themselves.
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Zionism and pessimism are not compatible.
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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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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The dog that trots about finds a bone.
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
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