Word: golda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...homeless people, "the Jews of the Arab world." They have their freedom fighters: the fedayeen. Palestinian guerrillas divided into six major groups that form the Palestine Liberation Organization, a kind of shadow government headed by Yasser Arafat. But they have little else. Israelis maintain that, as former Premier Golda Meir once put it, "there is no such thing as a Palestinian." Many of them carry no more proof of citizenship than the laisser-passer that have been issued to residents of the refugee camps supported by the United Nations but actually governed by the P.L.O. Still, they endure. Says Palestinian...
...pressure on Syria at President [Hafez] Assad's request. I also knew that the Pentagon advised the Israelis to try a counterattack to save their force in Sinai. In his Memoirs, the Israeli Chief of Staff, during the October War, tried to absolve himself by reporting that Golda Meir, after receiving the information gathered by the U.S. satellite, had asked the commanders to try to do anything-anything-because the Israelis on the Egyptian front had reached "the bottom," to quote verbatim...
...images still flash sharply through the mind: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat stepping from his gold-and-white 707 upon Israeli soil; Israeli Premier Menachem Begin greeting him at the Knesset in Jerusalem; Sadat and Golda Meir exchanging good-humored banter; Begin's airport farewell to Sadat amid dreams of peace...
...peace but also added that they "should not exist." Al though his comments reflected longstanding U.S. policy, Vance's words were a bit blunter than usual, and they made Begin see red. Summoning reporters, the Premier read what was surely the toughest official Israeli blast at Washington since Golda Meir rejected the Rogers peace plan eight years ago. The statement expressed "regret and protest" about the Vance remark, insisted that the settlements were "legal, legitimate and essential," and even suggested that Vance's views on the matter did not square with those of his boss. President Carter defended...
...that Zionist irredentism that distinguishes Begin from all preceding Israeli Premiers, and it is that policy that could make peace unattainable as long as he is in office. Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin were concerned with how long to postpone Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank. What Begin is talking about is how long to postpone Israeli annexation of the West Bank. Even if he offers to do so indefinitely, there is no way that any Arab leader can make peace with Israel on those terms...