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 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.
„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.
„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]'.
„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)
„I am also grateful that I live in a country whose people have learned how to go on living in a sea of hatred without hating those who want to destroy them and without abandoning their own vision of peace. To have learned this is a great art, the prescription for which is not written down anywhere. It is part of our way of life in Israel. Finally, I wish to say that from the time I came to Palestine as a young woman, we have been forced to choose between what is more dangerous and what is less dangerous for us. At times we have all been tempted to give in to various pressures and to accept proposals that might guarantee us a little quiet for a few months, or maybe even for a few years, but that could only lead us eventually into even greater peril.“
— Golda Meir, livro My Life
My Life (1975), p. 459
„In Israel, we read from right to left.“
To Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State, who had written her that he considers himself 'an American first, Secretary of State second, and a Jew third'
Fonte: https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=kOICAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=Golda+Meir+In+Israel,+we+read+from+right+to+left.&source=bl&ots=JVGhSq8aqj&sig=i0y3YiXiGFjO7UPRpBvAP36p6e0&hl=es-419&sa=X&ei=zpOgVJjnDIuVNvJK&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Golda%20Meir%20In%20Israel%2C%20we%20read%20from%20right%20to%20left.&f=false
„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)
„[The Soviet government] is the most realistic regime in the world — no ideals.“
Fonte: https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=WWMHAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA132&dq=%5BThe+Soviet+government%5D+is+the+most+realistic+regime+in+the+world+%E2%80%94+no+ideals.&hl=es-419&sa=X&ei=YpSgVOShKoyogwT9loTIAg&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%5BThe%20Soviet%20government%5D%20is%20the%20most%20realistic%20regime%20in%20the%20world%20%E2%80%94%20no%20ideals.&f=false
„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.“
Speech to the Knesset, reported in Ner (October 1961)
„To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.“
When questioned on Israel's future, in The New York Times (12 December 1974)
