“Dont be so humble - you are not that great.” ― Golda Meir My Life by Golda Meir is a compelling autobiography, which tells of the life of this amazing woman, from her early poverty-stricken childhood in Kiev, to her tenure as Prime Minister of Israel, from 1969 to 1974. It is also the story of Zionism, and the State of Israel-its struggle to be born, amidst Arab and British hostility, and its struggle to survive against the venomous hatred of the Arab world, and the treachery of the international community. She writes at length about the struggle against the British, who did their dammdest during the 1930s and 1940s to ensure that the Jewish State would be stillborn in blood. The British barred millions of Jewish men, women and children fleeing Hitler, from entering Israel, turning them back to perish in the Nazi ovens. And even today the attitude of the British establishment towards Israel, is one of uncompromising callous poison. Written in 1975, the world still made a lot more sense then, as this was before it became so illogically fashionable to so viciously hate tiny, democratic Israel. But still the trends that would intensify where beginning. Gold Meir was a lifelong Socialist, but spared no punches in condemning the Soviet Union for its perfidious backing of all Arab attempts to destroy Israel. She also condemns the New Left, which at the time the book was written, where beginning their hate campaign against Israel. She refers to her disgust at the honoring by the UN of mass murderer, Yasser Arafat: It is bitter to write...Today this has not changed, except that Arafat has claimed millions of more victims, and has the support of world academia, the world media, and countless Arab and Third world regimes. Meir also rejected the creation of a third Palestinian state between Iraq and the Mediterranean, but was prepared to countenance the ceding of parts of the West Bank to Jordan. Sadly, the decision to reverse this stand by her Labour Party has caused the spilling of much blood. She writes much about her work in bettering the lives of both Jews and Arabs in Israel , and her work in helping with the development of much of newly independent Africa in the 1960s and early 70s (before the African States turned on Israel after the Yom Kippur War of 1973). But the primary message of this book is this: I have seen my five grandchildren grow up as Jews, in a country that is their own. Let no one have any doubts about this. Our children and our childrens children will never settle for anything less.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 03:42:43 +0000
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