Word: golda
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During the 1973 war, Richard Nixon privately warned the government of Golda Meir not to cut off food and water to 20,000 trapped Egyptian soldiers. But it was not until 1975 that relations were once again seriously strained. Angered over Israel's intransigence in the negotiations for troop withdrawals from the Sinai, Gerald Ford dramatically announced a "reassessment" of U.S. policies in the Middle East and suspended consideration of Israel's request for $2.5 million...
...Except for mothers, who know better . . . almost everyone was certain that this was going to be oh such a lovely war." Do you believe mothers like Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi and Golda Meir have a visceral repugnance toward shedding the blood of young men, which fathers do not have? Killing is not a masculine preserve...
Lebanon and Syria: Upon leaving Jordan unwillingly, the PLO set up camp in Lebanon in 1970. Israel had never meddled in Lebanon until that point. Though Golda Meir made it clear that Israel would not sanction terrorists to its north, Lebanon permitted the PLO to gain a foothold. Joining with indigenous leftist forces, the PLO raided Christian cities until Syrian dictator Hafez al-Assad came to the phalangists' aid and began fighting the Palestinians and their Lebanese allies. Assad had observed Hussein's problems and worried about a PLO ascendance...
...trouble," Golda told Keating. Egyptian and Syrian troop movements, assumed to be simply military exercises, had suddenly taken a threatening turn. The Israelis were now persuaded that a coordinated Egyptian and Syrian attack would be launched late that afternoon. Since the Arabs were certain to be defeated, she suggested, the crisis must result from their misunderstanding of Israeli intentions. Would the U.S. urgently convey to the Soviet Union and to Israel's Arab neighbors that Israel had no intention of attacking...
...Dinitz asked to see me alone. Prime Minister Meir, he told me, was prepared to come to the U.S. personally to plead with President Nixon for urgent arms aid. It could be a secret visit. I rejected the idea out of hand and without checking with Nixon. Golda's leaving while a major battle was going on would be a sign of such panic that it might bring in all the Arab states still on the sidelines. It would leave Israel leaderless when Golda's dauntless courage was most needed. (I learned after the war that at this very moment...