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...fascination with women of power resulted in The Warrior Queens, her last book, an analysis of women rulers who led their people into battle, from British Queen Boadicea in 60 A.D. to Israel's Golda Meir, India's Indira Gandhi and Prime Minister Thatcher, triumphant in the Falklands. Fraser identified history's typecasting of women leaders: the appendages, those who gain power by virtue of being wives, widows or daughters of a male ruler; the honorary male who rejects her femininity; and the female chieftain who is either "supernaturally chaste or preternaturally lustful." Fraser observes that when a woman holds...
When John Larew characterizes Americans who support Israel "because it is a Jewish state" as "Zealots," I am reminded of Golda Meir's sharp reply to a critic who asked her if Israel suffered from a "Masada complex" of last-stand heroism. (Masada was the last stand of Palestinian Jews against the Romans in A.D. 73.) "Yes, we do have a Masada complex," she replied. "We have a Masada complex, we have a Chmielnicki [where 100,000 Jews were murdered by Cossacks] complex, we have a Dachau complex...
...Farrakhan is one person, one black person. Why is it that no black person seems to be rabid about Meir Kahane? Farrakhan is rejected by a lot of black people who wouldn't go near that man. It's not an equal standard -- one black person is all black people...
Many political and military officials are worried the measures will serve mainly to brutalize Israel's soldiers. Warned Meir Pa'il, a retired colonel: "If we continue, the real danger is that our soldiers will be turned into beasts." That is already happening, said a lieutenant colonel in charge of % one West Bank military district: "The first time you see someone whose face is swollen after a beating by our soldiers, you are horrified. The second time is not so terrible anymore. The third time, you are indifferent...
Sneh is currently the director of the Golda Meir Association, an Israeli foundation whose goal is to teach Israeli high school students the values of democracy and pluralism...