Golda Meir - War Quotes

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We owe a responsibility not only to those who are in Israel but also to those generations that are no more, to those millions who have died within our lifetime, to Jews all over the world, and to generations of Jews to come. We hate war. We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown, and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

Golda Meir
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

Golda Meir
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon — no alternative. The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

Golda Meir
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.

Golda Meir
I don't know why you use a fancy French word like détente when there's a good English phrase for it — cold war.

Golda Meir
There were no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War, and then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist.

Golda Meir
We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We don't want wars even when we win.

Golda Meir