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Do you agree with the statement that only when Palestinians will love
their children more than they hate Jews, there will finally be peace?

The unique Golda Meir had so many striking quotes which still resonate
today. What a character! Together with Muhammad Ali she is one of my
favorite source. Here is a selection:

“Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took
us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in
the Middle East that has no oil!”

“Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning
and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.”

“It is true that we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them.”

“We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive
them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with
the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us”

“We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.”

“A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is
not fit to be a leader.”

“It was not as if there was a Palestinian people in Palestine and we
came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did
not exist.”

“We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs - We have
no place to go.”

“I guess we have no choice. Either we do everything that is possible,
and may seem to others as impossible, and just give up. Or we do
everything that is really impossible and we remain alive. There’s one
more basic thing that I think that people outside of Israel must
realize, and if they understand and accept that, maybe other things will
fall into place.

For instance, we’re not the only people in the world who’ve had difficulties with neighbors; that has happened to many. We are the only
country in the world whose neighbors do not say, “We are going to war
because we want a certain piece of land from Israel,” or waterways or anything of that kind. We’re the only people in the world where our
neighbors openly announce they just won’t have us here. And they will
not give up fighting and they will not give up war as long as we remain
alive. Here.

So this is the crux of the problem: it isn’t anything concrete that they
want from us. That’s why it doesn’t make sense when people say, “Give up this and give up the other place. Give up the Golan Heights,” for
instance. What happened when we were not on the Golan Heights? We were
not on the Golan Heights before ’67, and for 19 years, Syria had guns up there and shot at our agricultural settlements below. We were not on the
Golan Heights! So what, if we give up the Golan Heights, they will stop shooting? We were not in the Suez Canal when the war started.

It’s because Egypt and Syria and the other Arab countries refuse to
acquiesce to our existence. Therefore there can be no compromise. They
say we must be dead. And we say we want to be alive. Between life and
death, I don’t know of a compromise. And that’s why we have no choice.”

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