Golda (61 page)

Life,
February 6, 1970.

1. “I want to get things moving”:
   Jerusalem Post,
   July 5, 1973.
   

2. more money to domestic problems:
   Jerusalem Post,
   July 11 and 26, 1973.
   

313 The landing of the Bell 206: Details on Hussein’s visit were stitched to- gether from author interviews with Mordechai Gazit and Eitan Haber; Lov Kaddar interview, (56)88, OHD; Ze’ev Schiff, “Was There a Warn- ing?”
Ha’aretz,
June 12, 1998; Amnon Barzilai, “Golda Meir’s Nightmare,”
Ha’aretz,
October 3, 2003; and Abraham Rabinovich,
The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East
(New York: Schocken, 2004).

1. who’d served coffee and tea: Kaddar interview, (56)88, OHD.
   

2. Zusia Kniazer: Ze’ev Schiff, “Was There a Warning?”
   Ha’aretz,
   June 12, 1998, and Amnon Barzilai, “Golda Meir’s Nightmare,”
   Ha’aretz,
   Octo- ber 3, 2003.
   

314 Austrian chancellor Bruno Kreisky: The Kreisky story was stitched together from reporting in the
Jerusalem Post,
October 1–5, 1973, from
Time,
October 15, 1973, and
Newsweek,
October 15, 1973.

1. “ ‘a plague on both your houses’ ”:
   Jerusalem Post,
   October 2, 1973.
   

2. In-Law, who was, in fact, Nasser’s son-in-law: Rabinovich,
   The Yom Kippur War,
   p. 504; and Howard Blum,
   The Eve of Destruction
   (New York: HarperCollins, 2003).
   

3. “wanton conceit”: London
   Sunday Times
   Team,
   Yom Kippur War
   (London:
   

G. B.Deutsch, 1975).

316 “Is there anything”: Rabinovich,
The Yom Kippur War,
p. 642.

316 Unbeknownst to Golda: Information on the lead-up to the war is derived from Golda Meir,
My Life
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975); Blum,
The Eve of Destruction;
Chaim Herzog,
War of Atonement: The Inside Story of the Yom Kippur War
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1975); Zeev Schiff,
October Earthquake: Yom Kippur 1973,
trans. Louis Williams (Tel Aviv: University Pub. Projects, 1974); Rabinovich,
The Yom Kippur War;
and author’s interviews with Arye Shalev, Hanoch Bar-Tov, Meir Peil, Uri Bar-Yosef, Ya’akov Hasaid, and Yoav Gelber in December 2004 and January 2005.

318 “Maybe this should tell us something”: Rabinovich,
The Yom Kippur War,

p. 81.

1. “Get the first flight out”: Interview with Simcha Dinitz, Golda Meir Li- brary Archives UWM.
   

2. “Golda, I will sleep well tonight”: Author interview with Yaacov Hasdai, December 17, 2004.
   

319 “And what about tomorrow?”: Blum,
The Eve of Destruction,
p. 145.

319 Golda agreed with Dayan about the dangers: Golda Meir,
My Life,
p. 426, and Rabinovich,
The Yom Kippur War
, 89–90.

1. But she sided with Dado: Robert Slater,
   Golda: The Uncrowned Queen of Israel
   (Middle Village, N.Y.: Jonathan David, 1981), p. 239.
   

2. “better to be in proper shape”: Rabinovich,
   The Yom Kippur War,
   p. 90
   

320 “What will you do with all those”: Ibid., p. 93.

320 Keating was waiting: Amnon Barzilai, “Golda Meir’s Nightmare,”
Ha’aretz,
October 3, 2003. Walter Isaacson,
Kissinger: A Biography
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992); and Rabinovich,
The Yom Kippur War.

320 “I will not open fire”: Rabinovich,
The Yom Kippur War,
p. 92.

322 “We have no doubt”: Peter Allen,
The Yom Kippur War
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1982).

322 “The people of Tel Aviv will be able to sleep”:
Time,
October 15, 1973.

322 “we’ve never actually done it”: Rabinovich,
The Yom Kippur War,
p. 171.

324 “The destruction of the Third Temple”: Blum,
The Eve of Destruction,

p. 195.

324 “Golda, I was wrong about everything”: Allen,
The Yom Kippur War.

324 “sort of grayish khaki”: Interview with Kaddar, (56)88, OHD.

1. “generalissimo”: Quoted in Zeev Schiff,
   October Earthquake: Yom Kippur 1973
   , trans. by Louis Williams (Tel Aviv: University Pub. Projects, 1974), p. 148.
   

2. “Today we hit bottom”: Blum,
   The Eve of Destruction.
   

325 “The great Moshe Dayan!”: Chaim Herzog,
The War of Atonement: The Inside Story of the Yom Kippur War
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1975).

1. “The Third Commonwealth might be destroyed”: Slater,
   Golda,
   p. 241.
   

2. “We do not now have the strength”: The full text of Dayan’s remarks were printed in
   Ha’aretz,
   February 15, 1974.
   

326 “If you say on television”: London
Sunday Times
Team,
Yom Kippur War,

p. 216.

1. Another editor called Golda: Rabinovich,
   The Yom Kippur War,
   p. 270.
   

2. “[Dayan] was beaten”: Quoted in Robert Slater,
   Warrior Statesman: The Life of Moshe Dayan
   (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991).
   

1. arming of Israeli nuclear weapons: The information for this section came
   

   from Seymour Hersh,
   The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy
   (New York: Random House, 1991); Avner Co- hen,
   Israel and the Bomb
   (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998); and Blum,
   Eve of Destruction.
   The article from Stern was reported in the
   Jerusalem Post,
   March 12, 1980.
   

2. the new battlefront became Washington: The controversy about Kissinger and weapons for Israel has been laid out in Tad Szulc,
   The Illusion of Peace: Foreign Policy in the Nixon
   Years (New York: Viking Press, 1974), pp. 735–39; Walter Isaacson,
   Kissinger: A Biography,
   pp. 450–78; Ed- ward Luttwak and W. Z. Laqueur, “Kissinger and the Yom Kippur War,”
   Commentary
   58, no. 3 (September 1974), pp. 33–62; Edward Sheehan, “How Henry Kissinger Did It,”
   Foreign Policy
   (spring 1976), pp. 21–69; Elmo R. Zumwalt,
   On Watch: A Memoir
   (New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1976); Matti Golan,
   The Secret Conversations of Henry Kissinger: Step-by-Step Diplomacy in the Middle East
   (New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1976).
   

1. “get just as much blame”: Isaacson,
   Kissinger,
   p. 522.
   

2. “back to being ourselves”: Donald Neff,
   Warriors against Israel
   (Brattleboro. Vt.: Amana Books, 1988).
   

332 “given time to enjoy his defeat”: Golda on
Face the Nation,
CBS, October 28, 1973.

1. “ I presume she is wild,” he remarked to Eban: Matti Golan,
   The Secret Conversations of Henry Kissinger: Step-by-Step Diplomacy in the Midle East,
   trans. by Ruth Geyra Stern and Sol Stern (New York: Quadrangle/ New York Times Book Co., 1976) p. 88.
   

2. “Well, in Vietnam”: Isaacson,
   Kissinger,
   p. 528.
   

335 “If the Egyptians fail”: Michael Brecher,
Decisions in Israel’s Foreign Policy

(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1975), p. 223.

335 “I won’t stand for the destruction of the Third Army”: Golan,
Secret Conver- sations.

1. Golda usually communicated: Golda Meir,
   My Life,
   p. 445.
   

2. “There is only one country”: Ibid., pp. 371–72.
   

   chapter seventeen
   

3. Motti Ashkenazi took up: Author interview with Motti Ashkenazi, Decem- ber 19, 2004; and Abraham Rabinovich,
   The Yom Kippur War: The Epic
   

   Encounter That Transformed the Middle East
   (New York: Schocken, 2004).
   

4. “my son didn’t fall in battle”: Author interview with Meron Medzini, December 15, 2004.
   

338 “It doesn’t matter what logic”: Golda Meir,
My Life
(New York: Putnam, 1975), p. 425.

1. “never be the same Golda”: Q and A on Israeli television, covered by the
   

   Jerusalem Post,
   April 26, 1974.
   

2. “Golda, is this all worth it?”: Author interview with Yehuda Avner, January 4, 2005.
   

339 “Golda, be strong”: Meron Medzini,
Ha-Yehudiyah ha-geah: Goldah Meir

v
.
a-h
.
azon Yisra’el: Biyografyah polit
.
it
(Tel Aviv, Edanim, 1990), chapter 19.

339 “It’s ridiculous”: White House Memorandum of Conversation between Kissinger and Meir et al., Blair House, November 1, 1973, National Ar- chives of the United States.

341 “There can be no greater mistake”:
Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle,
June 1, 1973.

341 “They don’t want us here”:
New York Times,
October 26, 1969.

341 “We both have Jewish”: Matti Golan,
The Secret Conversations of Henry Kissinger: Step-by-step Diplomacy in the Middle-East,
trans. by Ruth Geyra Stern and Sol Stern (New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1976).

1. “We have to squeeze”: Walter Isaacson,
   Kissinger: A Biography
   (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), p. 522.
   

2. oozing empathy: White House Memorandum of Conversation between Nixon and Meir et al., Oval Office, November 1, 1973, National Ar- chives of the United States.
   

1. “Where is the October 22 line?”: White House Memorandum of Conversa- tion between Kissinger and Meir et al., Blair House, November 2, 1973, National Archives of the United States.
   

2. As Kissinger emerged: Isaacson,
   Kissinger,
   p. 504.
   

343 “The nineteenth century is my specialty”: Ibid., p. 552.

1. “We didn’t begin the war”: White House Memorandum of Conversation between Kissinger and Golda et al., Blair House, November 3, 1973, National Archives of the United States.
   

2. forcing his Orthodox parents: Isaacson,
   Kissinger,
   p. 505.
   

1. “But on Israeli policy, I have my PhD”: Richard Valeriani,
   Travels with Henry
   (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1979), p. 200.
   

2. “You are not giving me anything”: Golan,
   Secret Conversations
   , p. 109.
   

345 “all we have, really, is our spirit”: Golda Meir,
My Life,
p. 447.

345 breakfast with fourteen:
Jerusalem Post,
November 4, 1973.

1. Her friends George Meany of the AFL-CIO: Golan,
   Secret Conversations,
   

   p. 109.
   

2. “For the first time in a quarter of a century”: Golda Meir,
   My Life,
   p. 448.
   

1. “methods of Goebbels”: Golan,
   Secret Conversations,
   p. 96.
   

2. “I am a very, very”: London
   Sunday Times,
   p. 442.
   

1. “if we ever see Joe again”: Marvin Kalb and Bernard Kalb,
   Kissinger
   (Bos- ton: Little, Brown, 1974), p. 512.
   

2. “icing on the cake”: For a view of Kissinger’s thinking on guarantees, see Isaacson,
   Kissinger,
   p. 541, and Theodore Draper, “The United States and Israel,”
   Commentary
   59, no. 4 (April 1975).
   

3. where is my father:
   Time,
   November 12, 1973.
   

349 “My dear General”: Kenneth W. Stein, “The Talks at Kilometer 101,” in Richard B. Parker, ed.,
The October War
(Gainesville: University Press of Florida Press, 2001), pp. 361–73.

1. off-kilter Star of David: Author interview with Rinna Samuel, December 18, 2004.
   

2. Twenty-one Socialist political leaders: Golda Meir,
   My Life,
   p. 446, and Harold Wilson,
   The Chariot of Israel
   (New York: W. W. Norton, 1981).
   

352 “Moshe, you created the feeling”: Author interview with Michael Bar-Zohar, December 21, 2004.

352 the minister of justice screamed: Golda Meir,
My Life,
p. 450.

352 “strength of a warrior without fear”: Medzini,
Ha-Yehudiyah
, chapter 17.

352 “45 percent of the voters”:
Time,
December 10, 1973, poll commissioned by

Ha’aretz.

1. “who is for whom and what if for what”:
   Jerusalem Post,
   November 23, 1973.
   

2. “1 could offer excuses”: Labor Party Central Committee, December 5, 1973, Israel State Archives, 106/810/2P, and
   New York Times,
   December 30, 1973.
   

355 Kissinger cajoled Golda: The information about Geneva is from Eban,
Abba Eban: An Autobiography
(New York: Random House, 1977), pp. 548–53;
Newsweek,
December 31, 1973; and the
Sunday Times
of Lon- don, pp. 483–84.

1. “One must not expect”:
   Jerusalem Post,
   November 12, 1973.
   

2. Kissinger gave new meaning: Background on the first shuttle is from Peter
   

Allen,
The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1982); Isaacson,
Kiss- inger;
and Edward R. F. Sheehan,
The Arabs, Israelis, and Kissinger: A Secret History of American Diplomacy in the Middle East
(New York: Readers Digest Press: distributed by Crowell, 1976).

358 “The United States holds most”:
Le Monde,
January 22, 1975.

358 nasty case of herpes: Richard Valeriani,
Travels with Henry
(Boston: Hough- ton Mifflin, 1979).

358 “All our sympathies”: Donald Neff,
Warriors Against Israel
(Brattleboro, Vt.: Amana Books, 1988).

358 “He had a unique ability”: Valeriani,
Travels,
p. 208.

1. A course described as: Ibid., pp. 210–11.
   

2. “played the role of an extremely talented”: Ibid., p. 208.
   

359 Metternich’s view: Isaacson,
Kissinger,
p. 554.

359 “It struck me as strange”: Slater,
Golda,
p. 256.

359 probably mythic State Department story: Valeriani,
Travels,
pp. 197–98.