Frases de Golda Meir
Golda Meir
Data de nascimento: 21. Abril 1898
Data de falecimento: 8. Dezembro 1978
Golda Meir foi uma fundadora do Estado de Israel. Emigrou para a Terra de Israel no ano de 1921, onde militou no sindicato Histadrut e no partido trabalhista Mapai. Além de primeira embaixadora israelense na extinta União Soviética em 1948, ela foi ministra do Bem-Estar Social, ministra do Exterior, secretária-geral do Mapai e, entre 1969 e 1974, o quarto primeiro-ministro de Israel.
Conhecida pela firmeza de suas convicções, estava à frente do Estado de Israel em seu momento mais dramático: a Guerra do Yom Kipur, na qual tropas egípcias e sírias atacaram Israel, cuja população estava distraída pelas comemorações do Dia do Perdão judaico. David Ben-Gurion, certa vez, disse, dela: "Golda Meir é o único homem do meu gabinete".
Citações Golda Meir
„Só queremos o que é concedido naturalmente a todos os povos do mundo, sermos senhores do nosso próprio destino, apenas do nosso destino, não o dos outros, e termos cooperação e amizade com eles.“
We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, only of our fate, not of others. In cooperation and friendship with others
Golda Meir citada em Way of Valor: A Biography of Golda Myerson - Página 148, Marie Syrkin - Sharon Books, 1955, 309 páginas
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„Nós teremos a paz com os árabes quando eles amarem as crianças deles mais do que eles nos odeiam.“
Em uma declaração ao National Press Club em Washington, 1957, Jewish Virtual Library http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Quote/MeironPeace.html
„We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon — no alternative.“
As quoted in LIFE magazine (3 October 1969), p. 32
Contexto: We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon — no alternative. The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.
„When peace comes, we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.“
Press conference in London (1969), as quoted in A Land of Our Own : An Oral Autobiography (1973) edited by Marie Syrkin, p. 242
Variante: When peace comes, we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.
„I prefer to stay alive and be criticized than be sympathized.“
Fallaci interview (1973)
„It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to leave.“
As acting head of the Jewish Agency Political Department visited Arab Haifa and reported to the Jewish Agency Executive (6 May 1948); as 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 45/2
Contexto: It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to leave. I entered the houses, there were houses where the coffee and pita bread were left on the table, and I could not avoid [thinking] that this, indeed, had been the picture in many Jewish towns [i. e., in Europe, during World War II]'.
„We hate war. We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown, and when strawberries bloom in Israel.“
As quoted in As Good as Golda : The Warmth and Wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister (1970) edited by Israel Shenker and Mary Shenker, p. 28
Contexto: We owe a responsibility not only 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 world, and to generations of Jews to come. We hate war. We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown, and when strawberries bloom in Israel.
„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 then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.
As quoted in Sunday Times (15 June 1969), also in The Washington Post (16 June 1969)
„A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' 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 doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government!“
Israel’s Iron Lady unfiltered: 17 Golda Meir quotes on her 117th birthday, Yadid, Judd, 2015-05-03, English, Haaretz http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/.premium-1.654218,
„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.“
On 30th anniversary of the founding of Israel, in International Herald Tribune (11 May 1978)
