Golda (62 page)

1. “benevolent aunt”: Henry Kissinger,
   The White House Years
   (Boston: Little, Brown, 1979).
   

2. “You must take my word seriously”: Ibid., p. 836.
   

1. “1 am deeply conscious”: Ibid., p. 844.
   

2. “The state has gone through a devaluation”: Quoted in
   Time,
   March 14, 1974.
   

361 “Why are you protecting him?”: Interview with Yossi Sarid, January 2, 2005.

361 approval rating fell:
Time,
March 14, 1974.

1. “The streets will not tell me”: Medzini,
   Ha-Yehudiyah,
   chapter 19.
   

2. Shulamit Aloni, for defying: Author interview with Shulamit Aloni, De- cember 23, 2004.
   

362 “Golda Meir had many great”: Abba Solomon Eban,
Personal Witness: Is- rael Through My Eyes
(New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1992), p. 554.

1. “1 don’t think they use sensible methods”: Slater,
   Golda,
   p. 258.
   

2. “1 have asked him”:
   Jerusalem Post,
   February 21, 1974.
   

363 “Had I resigned last August”:
Jerusalem Post,
March 4, 1974.

1. “Golda, come back”: Author interview with Aharon Yadlin, December 30, 2004.
   

2. At the last minute: Eban,
   Personal Witness,
   p. 562, and
   Jerusalem Post,
   

March 6 and 8, 1974.

1. Agranat Commission: For a thorough account of the commission and its
   

   report, see Phina Lahav,
   Judgment in Jerusalem
   (Los Angeles and Berke- ley: University of California Press, 1997).
   

2. “You realize that it won’t end”:
   Time,
   April 22, 1974.
   

1. On Thursday, April 10:
   Jerusalem Post,
   April 11, 1974.
   

2. “I am very tired”: Menachem Meir,
   My Mother Golda Meir: A Son’s Evoca- tion of Life with Golda Meir
   (New York: Arbor House, 1983), p. 226.
   

3. “Two wars in seven”: Isaacson,
   Kissinger,
   p. 576.
   

367 “I didn’t just get up one day in 1967”: Slater,
Golda
.

1. “like a rug merchant”: Isaacson,
   Kissinger,
   p. 570.
   

2. “she had a grudge”: Author interview with Ari Rath, December 23, 2004.
   

368 “Miss Israel” and “the beauty of Jerusalem”: Isaacson,
Kissinger,
p. 553, and Valeriani,
Travels,
p. 295.

368 “Go get the best numbers you can”: Valeriani,
Travels,
p. 200.

1. town of Ma’alot: A good recounting of the Ma’alot massacre ran in
   Time,
   

   March 27, 1974.
   

2. “better get back to peacemaking”: Eban,
   Personal Witness
   p. 571.
   

conclusion

372 slow down the immigration:
Jerusalem Post,
February 16, 1978.

372 Kolleck, the mayor of Jerusalem: Comments made in a television interview, reported in the
Jerusalem Post,
February 5, 1978.

1. “Doctrinaire and obsessed”: Chaim Herzog,
   Living History: The Memoirs of a Great Israeli Freedom-Fighter, Soldier, Diplomat and Statesman
   (New York: Pantheon, 1996).
   

2. “So you’re tired”:
   New York Post,
   April 22, 1974.
   

373 compared her to Winston: Quoted in
Jerusalem Post,
April 23, 1974.

373 Kissinger threw her a black-tie:
Jerusalem Post,
December 20, 1974.

373 President Gerald Ford:
Jerusalem Post,
December 21, 1975, and May 20, 1976.

1. And when Jimmy Carter was running:
   New York Times,
   May 27, 1976.
   

2. declared Richard Nixon: Exchange of toasts between President Katzir and President Nixon in the Knesset, June 16, 1974, Israel Minister of For- eign Affairs, Historical Documents 1974–1977.
   

374 Even Sadat jumped:
Time,
January 2, 1978.

374 “I wouldn’t want the West Bank”:
Jerusalem Post,
May 22, 1978.

1. Her autobiography: Author interview with Rinna Samuel, December 18, 2004.
   

2. If I’d looked and sounded like Bancroft: Author interview with William Gibson, July 2004, and William Gibson,
   Golda: Notes on How to Turn a Phoenix into Ashes
   (New York: Atheneum, 1978), pp. 31–32.
   

375 “Israel will be astonished”:
New York Times,
November 15, 1977.

375 “I’m not going to have people say”: Author interview with Rinna Samuel, January 2, 2005.

1. “What’s all the Messianic”:
   Jerusalem Post,
   November 21, 1977.
   

2. “The time was not yet ripe”: The repartee between Golda and Sadat was overheard by Yitzhak Rabin, who was standing nearby. From Rabin in- terview, Golda Meir Library Archives, UWM, tape 19, collection 21.
   

376 “I don’t know about the Nobel”:
Jerusalem Post,
November 25, 1977.

1. “Galili would be her agent”: Author interview with Mordechai Gazit, Janu- ary 6, 2005.
   

2. It fell to Mordechai: Ibid.
   

377 spate of pamphlets and articles: That work included
Israeli Diplomacy and the Quest for Peace
(London: Routledge, 2002); “Peace between Egypt and Israel: A Missed Opportunity in 1971,”
Zionism (Hatzionut)
21 (1998); “Egypt and Israel—Was There a Peace Opportunity Missed in 1971?”
Journal of Contemporary History
32, no. 1 pp. 97–115 (January 1997);
The Peace Process, 1969
–
1973: Efforts and Contacts
(Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1983); and “Golda and Peace,” Jerusalem Post, January 1, 1980.

1. “the horrific Golda Syndrome”: Doron Rosenblum, “Is He Another of the Goldas?”
   Ha’aretz,
   June 24, 2006.
   

2. “No Arab government offered”: Simcha Dinitz interview, Golda Meir Li- brary Archives, UWM, tapes 8 and 9, collection 21.
   

378 his wife, Jihan: In interview with
Yediot Aharonot,
June 11, 1989.

378 “done better and gone farther than Menahem Begin”: Sadat interview in

October
magazine, February 18, 1978.

380 “ ‘How dare you say Jews’ ”: Author interview with Shulamit Aloni, Decem- ber 23, 2004.

380 “It is true we do have a Masada complex”: Golda was responding to Stewart Alsop’s column in
Newsweek,
July 12, 1971.

380 “We also have a pogrom complex. We have a Hitler complex.”: “Israel at 40,”
Time,
February 5, 2007.

380 “We are not Czechoslovakia”:
L’Express,
July 10, 1970.

383 “Israeli society, for thirty years, a full generation”: Author’s interview with Yaakov Hasdai, December 17, 2004.

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