#Golda Meir

[queenwille]

Israelis frolicking around the beaches of Tel Aviv without a care vs Palestinians being bombed and murdered at the hands of the IDF

And you’ll sit there and be all “oh poor Israel my little bloorboos you go murder all of those people who could be Hamas members even the children”

yep, people in israel sure are trying to live their lives while being under constant threat, while palestinians can’t. know why? where’s the difference? because it sure isn’t israelis’ fault.

while the israeli gov, the IDF and the rest of the official offices do their absolute best to promise israeli civilians’ safety, you simply cannot say the same about hamas, the “elected government” in gaza. i say “elected” because that happened in 2006 and whoever calls that democracy is a hypocrite.

israel’s one of the most expensive countries to live in because most of its funds simply go to securing its civilians safety from the constant threats from its neighboring countries 🤷🏻‍♀️

should israelis be shamed for working so hard to promise it’s people’s safety or should hamas, the ruling party in gaza, an actual designated terror organization, be shamed for not making even the slightest effort to provide safety to its people, or even worse, using them as human shields?

honestly, no need for mental gymnastics. golda meir, israel’s only female prime minister in history said it best:

you may watch this interview with her, which is so painfully relevant to this day.

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[proudzionist]

Golda Meir is somebody I look up too and respect.

I love her .she was brave and strong and a wonderful example on why we must fight for our homeland .

A role model to all women and especially too Jewish woman 🇮🇱💙🫂🥰

[eretzyisrael]

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[david-goldrock]

The complete interview

[planesky]

I am aware Gaza is now without electricity, water and gas.

I am aware not everyone there are to blame.

And I am sorry for the innocent that have to suffer.

But it is not our job to support and provide recourses to our murderers.

Israel funded Gaza for years and Hamas used that money to build weapons against us instead of rehabilitating their country.

I’ll quote Golda Meir, the fourth prime minister of Israel:

“If the Arabs lay down their arms there will be no more war. If Israel lays down its arms there will be no more state of Israel.”

Israel is willing to provide Gaza with recourses, money, and humanitarian assistance. As long as they don’t use it to massacre innocent Israeli’s once again or build weapons against us.

We tried our best to get to peace with them, but we are not the only side of the conflict.

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[girlactionfigure]

[loveboatinsanity]

[semioticapocalypse]

Micha Bar-Am. Golda Meir. 1969

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[proudzionist]

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[eretzyisrael]

Re: Golda Meir -- I was one of the two El Al 747 pilots when Golda flew to Washington to meet with Nixon after the Yom Kippur war in 1973. She and her team were on the upper deck, which was closed to other passengers who had no idea Golda was on board.

They also didn't know that this was no ordinary El Al TLV-JFK flight. We actually were going to land in DC first, deplane Golda and her team, then take off for New York.

At one point during the flight Golda came to the cockpit to say hello, which she did in her inimitable way. Holding her purse down by her side, she said, in English (someone must have tipped her off that I was American, though by then I spoke perfect Hebrew) "Hello boys, and thank you." "Thank YOU, Golda," the cockpit crew replied in unison.

Toward the end of the flight we announced to the passengers that Golda was on board and that we were going to land in Washington for a bit before heading on to New York. According to the cabin crew the passengers let out a rousing cheer and not one complained.

It was one of the great honors of my aviation career.

 OldBoldPilot 

[secular-jew]

Hamas builds tunnels under hospitals, kindergartens, schools, and residences. Destroying the buildings creates rubble which blocks the exits. Then the IDF can fly drones with heat-seeking cameras to see where bodies come out of the ground to find the other exits and block them.

The USAF killed more than 100,000 women and children dropping fire bombs in Tokyo during WW II. That's called "collateral damage." Hamas deliberately fires its missiles from where children are so they'll be killed photogenically if the IDF retaliates.

Golda Meir put it well:

"We don't hate Arabs because they murder our children. We hate Arabs because they force us to murder their children. There can be no peace with Arabs until they love their children more than they hate us. When the Arabs lay down arms and love their children, there will be peace in Israel. When the Jews lay down arms, Israel will be destroyed. Israel must always be on guard. Peace thru strength."

[hero-israel]

Given that we’re getting a Golda Meir movie, I’m really not looking to people taking her statement that “there is no such a thing as a Palestinian” out of context—that context being that the Palestinian identity was mostly constructed post-the establishment of Israel and in response to it—which I personally think is a moot point now and was also largely a moot point when she said it, but it’s not the endorsement of genocide I’ve seen claimed too many times

If everyone can admit that "There was a time when Jews weren't Israelis yet" and "There was a time when Jews weren't Zionists yet" and "There was a time when Canaanite tribes weren't Jews yet," they should be able to admit that "There was a time when Arabs in Palestine didn't have a Palestinian identity yet."

There is way too much present-ism in these discussions. Distinct Palestinian identity didn't really catch on until 1970. Golda Meir was born in 1898.

"The Palestinian Arabs had at present no will of their own. Neither have they ever developed any specifically Palestinian nationalism. The demand for a separate Arab state in Palestine is consequently relatively weak. It would seem as though in existing circumstances most of the Palestinian Arabs would be quite content to be incorporated in Transjordan." --U.N. negotiator Folke Bernadotte, 1948

He was right: they were content with exactly that.

It feels, as you said, moot to even bring it up; an obsolete argument from the 1940s. Yet the whole point of Palestinism is to constantly relitigate the 1940s, so we do not have the option of leaving the actual chronology behind.

[girlactionfigure]

A few weeks before the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Joe Biden was in Israel and met with Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.

He asked if she was worried. Golda, sitting behind her desk, flipping through maps, detailing Israel’s battles against its Arab neighbor and was trying to convey the gravity of the situation. She then turned to the young American politician and said, “We Jews have a secret weapon. We have no place else to go.”

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