Golda Meir Quotes
If the Palestinians lay down their weapons, there will be peace. If the Israelis lay down their weapons, there will be a massacre.
Golda Meir, 1898-1978, Prime Minister, Israel (Labor), Quoted by Adam West, Speech, The American Heritage Foundation, May 11, 2011
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While this type of hate message is common with Hamas, it is notable this specific hate and violence propaganda was transmitted via a children’s TV show called “Tomorrow's Pioneers” using a Mickey Mouse-like character. Children call in to the show, many singing Hamas anthems about fighting Israel.
This was one of the most accurate foreign policy assessments ever made. The next year the first Arab-Israeli war began when the state of Israel came into being. See {624566} for another accurate prediction.
At the time YaAlon was Rabin’s Chief of Intelligence.
A major issue amongst Israeli’s is to how they should relate to those hostile Islamic nations in their area who claim they are at war with Israel or the Jewish People. This position in effect says that the oratory of those Islamic groups that claim that they are in a war—a holy war even—should be taken at their word and treated as a wartime enemy and Israel should actively attempt to kill and destroy them.
The Palestinians in Gaza, led by the Terrorist Group Hamas, fired over 1000 rockets into Israel killing 5 people. The Israeli Defense forces finally retaliated and destroyed much of the Hamas infrastructure and killing the Hamas military leader. A number of other countries were trying to broker a cease fire and Blitzer was trying to determine what each side wanted.
Lev Davidovich Bronstein. There was even extensive Arab hostility to the Jews in Palestine before WWII and the Holocaust. Apologists for the Arab violence to the Jews have pointed to the creation of the state of Israel, the Arabs defeat in the wars with Israel and the fact that many Palestinians left their homes and could not return as the anger which fed the conflict. But as this quote shows they were attacking the Jews even before the second world war and the so called “reasons” for their violence.
Hamas had, in a bloody armed coup, seized control of the Gaza Strip from the Palestinian Authority, and refusing to negotiate with the Israelis undermined the Palestinian hopes of peace talks with Israel. The PA could no longer speak for the Palestinians. Hamas a particularly aggressive terrorist organization whose charter called for the death of all Jews in the world, wanted to force the Palestinian Authority to join them in terrorist attacks on Israel. The Palestinians had renounced terrorism and violence. The Hamas fighters were planning to fire rockets at Israel from the West Bank and launching other terrorist attacks against Israel, hoping that Israel would retaliate against the Palestinian Authority by attacking the West Bank which had not been destroyed at all while Gaza had lost much of its infrastructure and 2,000 lives. The Palestinian Authority was not about to let themselves get sucked into a war that they could not possible win and was contrary to the policies of Prime Minister Abbas and his elected government.
Mohamed Anwar El-Sedat
- Born: May 3, 1898
- Died: December 8, 1978
- Nationality: Israeli
- Profession: Leader
Golda Meir was an Israeli stateswoman, politician, teacher, and kibbutznik who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Israel.
