It's also a variation on Golda Meir's often and recently quoted aphorism: Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.As the Middle East rages, it's time for a little more Golda Meir:
Don’t be so humble, you’re not that great.
The greatest challenge to leaders and educators is to bring idealism into the picture despite the cloud that hangs over humanity.
I am convinced that peace will come to Israel and its neighbors because the tens of millions of Arabs need peace just as much as we do. An Arab mother who loses a son in battle weeps as bitterly as any Israeli mother.
We don’t want wars even when we win.
As to Israel’s military successes, she responded: Our secret weapon: No alternative.
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.
Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop the plane, you can’t stop the storm, you can’t stop time. So one might as well accept it calmly, wisely.
When told by Kissinger that he was an American first, then the Secretary of State and then a Jew, Golda told him that was fine since, in Hebrew, people read from right-to-left.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil. © 2006 Stephen Yuen
When David Ben-Gurion described Golda as “the only man” in his cabinet, she was amused that he thought this was the greatest compliment he could pay to a woman. I very much doubt, she would say, that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in government.
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