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Survival

President Biden tells a story about a meeting that he had with PM Golda Meir after the Yom Kippur war.  Then Senator Biden asked the Prime Minister to account for Israel’s improbable success, and Meir answered “We have a secret weapon - we don’t have another country.” 

Self-Definition

 In a biography about Henry Kissinger we find, “He [Kissinger] told Golda Meir that he was an American first, a Nixonite second, and a Jew last. She replied that in Israel, they go from right to left!” How we define ourselves is who we are. Who are you?

What Is

“Golda has better boundaries than King David and King Solomon.”   -Statement by Israeli leader after 1973 war. Despite the fact that this is untrue, it is a statement of hope.   We never have all that we want but we have what we need.   Accepting “what is” is an act of maturity.

Feminism

"When Golda [Meir] was asked by a journalist how it felt to be a female minister, she told him tartly, "I wouldn't know.  I've never been a prime minister"."  -Peggy Mann

Be Optimistic

Nixon, Brezhnev and Golda Meir were sitting together on a plane when God announced to them that a worldwide flood would begin in three days to punish mankind for its sinfulness.   He advised the three leaders to return to their respective countries immediately. Nixon rushed to Washington and made a nationwide television broadcast in which he announced that the world would end in three days.   F or the next three days, he ordered, America’s capitalists would not have to contend with any government controls; they were permitted to make all the money that they wanted. Brezhnev, on the other hand, told the people that inasmuch as there were only three days left, they would assume the final stage of Communism had been reached, and they were given permission to drink unlimited vodka. Golda Meir optimistically went before the Knesset to advise the parliamentarians that there were only three days left for government leaders to come up with a feasible plan to make...