Word: meir
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...responsibility on her. English-speaking Arabs used to refer to her contemptuously as Golda Lox. Now, by and large, they no longer joke about her. "Under Eshkol," says an Arab professor, "I had a vague hope that something was possible. Under Mrs. Meir, I have no such hope." A Jordanian Cabinet member agrees: "Eshkol hated the hawks, but Golda flies in formation with them. She has always been hard as nails." Part of the time, she has had to be. Nine days before she was sworn in, the Egyptians, having turned the Suez front opposite Sinai into one vast, armed...
Since Mrs. Meir became Premier, the conflict has heated up considerably, and Arab leaders place much...
Throughout, the telephone wires hummed between Israel's general staff and a grandmotherly-looking woman who is the country's Premier. Mrs. Golda Meir, 71, listened to the reports with obvious relish. At week's end, in a message marking Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, she ushered in the year 5730 on the Hebrew calendar with a warning to the Arab nations. "Attacks on the frontiers, sabotage attempts within Israel and attacks of piracy against Israelis abroad," she said, "have fortified Israel's resolve never to return to the situation of constant peril which prevailed before...
They were tough words from a tough lady. Golda Meir became Premier six months ago, after the death of Levi Eshkol. With the job, she inherited the difficult task of overseeing the territories captured during the Six-Day War: the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank of the Jordan River, and the Golan Heights. The new boundaries, created under a United Nations ceasefire, soon came to be violated almost daily. One of the deadliest border conflicts of modern history was under...
...Israelis, who have ruled Arab Jerusalem since 1967, protested their innocence, but in vain. Premier Golda Meir convoked an emergency Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem to offer help in repairing the mosque (the offer was spurned) and to appoint an investigating commission that included two Arab dignitaries (local Moslems named their own board of inquiry). Sheik Hilmi Al-Muh-tasib, chairman of Jerusalem's Moslem Council, quickly summoned newsmen to pointedly announce that "a blond, freckled man dressed in khaki, who did not appear to be a Palestinian," had been seen fleeing from the mosque just before the fire. That...