Word: golda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unearthly silence settled over Jerusalem. Israel's premonition of living in a friendless world determined on the nation's destruction was fulfilling itself. Israeli children were in mortal danger even while peace negotiations were going on. And yet in its crisis Israel behaved with stoic endurance. Golda, who had bitterly fought every concession, sent Dinitz to my suite to reaffirm her deep commitment to the success of the negotiations. She knew I was frustrated by the endless Talmudic quibbling by which the Syrian recovery of Quneitra was being established in increments of 100 meters. Her gesture toward peace while...
Israel was stunned by the losses but astonishingly disciplined. Being victim seemed to be the destiny of Jews, Golda said when Nancy and I called on her, but the killing of children was too much. It was said without pathos, analytically, as a scientist deals with a fact. In the same almost resigned manner, Golda said that we all had better get back to making peace...
...spent the time negotiating instead, now insisted that Kissinger share a late meal with him. When Kissinger protested that he was supposed to be paying a call on Gromyko at that moment, Assad said coolly: "It is all right, you are eating his dinner." Back in Israel, Golda and her negotiating team went right to work as soon as Kissinger returned. Shortly after 4 a.m. on May 29, the Cabinet approved the agreement...
That evening Golda gave a reception in her office. Golda, who was to step down as Prime Minister on May 31, was almost too tired to speak. But what she said was imbued with the dream of a people who had only known war: a dream that "Syrian mothers, Israeli mothers, Syrian young wives, Israeli young wives, children on both sides of the border can go to sleep at night without terror. We pray that this is a beginning for a real and lasting peace with all our neighbors and all our borders." I kissed Golda on the cheek...
...hours earlier, Prime Minister Golda Meir had summoned our Ambassador, former Senator Kenneth Keating, to her office in Jerusalem. It was extraordinary for an Israeli leader to be at work that day?Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the holiest day of the year for Jews. It is a day that climaxes a holy season in which, according to tradition, God decides the destiny of all mortals for the coming year. Golda's startling message was that Israel's encounter with destiny had already begun...