In 1969, Israeli PM Golda Meir was ‘convinced’ her grandchildren would see peace

Meet the Press Minute: Golda Meir, Israel’s first and only female prime minister, joined Meet the Press in 1969 during the War of Attrition, which Israel fought against Egypt, Jordan and Syria.
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[@bensly9194]

"We can forgive them for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us into killing theirs. We will only have peace when they love their children more than they hate us" ~ Golda Mier 1957

[@Handle0108]

Those are rich words from a coloniser from Ukraine. Why would Palestinians ever give up their fight for freedom against Israeli coloniser.

[@nurphurecarnium]

​@@Handle0108now tell me, when exactly Israel became colonizer? It's not a rhetorical question about whether or not Israel is a colonizer, just tell me the year and the event.

[@Handle0108]

@@nurphurecarnium the very moment that Britain conquered Palestine in WW1 in order to fulfil their Balfour declaration of 1917. That answer your question?

[@mohdtaufik4136]

​@@nurphurecarniumnot coloniser but oppressor. Colonise eg like how US colonise Hawaii/Guam is ok. They give its native population citizenship, jobs, education and equal rights. But oppreser who marginalised, oppressed and torture it's native inhabitants is not ok.

[@Kerys23a]

​@@Handle0108jews were there first Arabs are the occupiers

[@erichvonmolder9310]

“Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.” - Yoda

[@jasminek5557]

Nice quote. Yoda was wise lol

[@cortneyeverett6927]

🗣Repent Israelites all praise to the most high YAHAWAH AND HIS SON YAHAWASHI🤴🏽🦁🔥🛸 The so called black man, Latino, and Native Americans are the Israelites. Yahawah chosen people. That are scattered in all nations through our fathers. Making them Israelite foreigners/Scattered sheep/The multitude. Yahawashi speaking: Matthew 15:24 “But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Deuteronomy 7:6 “For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. Revelation 2:9 “I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.” Revelation 3:9 “Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

[@icantcook9998]

A no nonsense woman we need more women like that in today's society

[@dion_69]

“There is not, never has been a Palestinian People” was it not ? Dangerous nonsense there, heard on a speech from 15/06/1969. She was a bit of a denier, though I don’t know her back story yet.

[@katwashere194]

We need more no nonsense men too

[@anneankaspilling]

Please you do not mean that she was a Zionist and absolutely two faced.

[@canadaone2385]

We she was right israel does have peace with Jordan and Egypt

[@Killgore-ip2yq]

A peace that was fought and earned. The arab world just needs to respect Israel right to exist, and more people would stand with Palestine.

[@mohamed2077]

@@Killgore-ip2yq Now most Israelis were born in Israel, and no one can prevent them from staying in the place where they were born

[@brandonburns5365]

​@@mohamed2077there not even real jews😅

[@canadaone2385]

@@brandonburns5365 haha so funny

[@okigi-wo5zm]

​@@brandonburns5365you and Hitler agree.

[@mohamed2077]

We want to live in peace now, this crazy war must stop 🕊

[@Elo-hv3fw]

In order to establish peace, you must leave Israel alone . But even if you do so, it will still be too late. You simply went way too far to be able to turn around and walk away.

[@mohamed2077]

@@Elo-hv3fw There is already peace between many Arab countries and Israel, and I believe that complete peace can be achieved in the region even now.

[@user-cm3cd2gk2k]

they need to give land back@@Elo-hv3fw

[@ziadkhalil6740]

@@Elo-hv3fw you will leave Palestine

[@aseel8664]

To establish peace, israel must leave and all the settlers go back to their countries

[@jont2576]

If only countries are led by the humane,the compassionate,the forgiving,the bleeding heart and the pacifist....

[@curadhanpowell5007]

Ok but the Iron Lady of Israel was certainly no pacifist.

[@user-ib3jn1vo9d]

I remember her.

[@ourlovehowerica]

❤ Forever ❤

[@olivetreelighthouse8659]

Notice she never mentioned the indigenous people of Palestine. She only counted on Egypt & Syria to keep quiet, ignoring the people they are occupying.

[@planb2604]

So why did Jordan and Egypt never give the land to build "Palestine"? You don't even know where is the place and borders of those "indigenous people" you talk about.

[@user-td4do3op2d]

The Jews are the indigenous people. Most of the Muslims migrated from Egypt and Syria very recently. The rest have been there since the Arab conquest. Some I’m sure were converted Jews from beforehand.

[@oliverpenname]

Palestinian had only emerged as a unified national identity for the Arabs recently when she gave this interview

[@abdullatifb]

Gold’s Meir was a Palestinian according to her own words. kzbin.infoV8S6OMFKvKk?si=3TFlOd4jH7ude4TU

[@user-td4do3op2d]

@@abdullatifb ‘Palestinian’ referred mostly to Jews at that time. Arabs largely rejected the label in favour of pan-Arabism.

[@adlihkristopher2906]

God is the only one that can give us the peace that surpasses all understanding Amen

[@no-orwelliandystopia]

The best moment from my history when I saw Golda Meir and Anwar Sadat shaking hands in camp David , but they completely neglected the Palestinian situation in Gaza

[@user-ib3jn1vo9d]

I saw that.

[@EthelbertCoyote]

All it takes to stop a war is the words "no more" not to be directed at people but at the concept of war by both sides.

[@glennmandigo6069]

She tried that in 1973 Didn't work

[@MagicNash89]

Good luck with the "both sides" thing.

[@truetruths8090]

How about playing the clip of her saying that she is a Palestinian

[@taurusaziz9392]

رحمة الله عليكي سيده غولدا ❤

[@FriendofMineralTown]

Those are haunting wordsTHANKSFORWATCHING!!!!!!

[@LibertyAndJustice4All]

Israelis and Palestinians do not seem to share the same definition of peace. Both sides insist that they want peace, so why haven't they achieved it? It's because each side has its own definition, vision, and understanding of peace.

[@knucklez3025]

Yea one on top of the other.

[@mohamed2077]

The two states must separate

[@jont2576]

It's not just about peace,it's about not taking advantage of others abusing others and explioting others what's the point of saying u what peace of course nobody wants to die or fight for the sake of their own self interests. But when u commit grave injustices to others and cover it with ominous and insidious lies and saying u want peace is

[@LibertyAndJustice4All]

@jont2576 I actually used the term peace as an example to point out that the two sides have major disparities in defining many terms. Netanyahu once said that Israel indeed fulfilled the UN resolution to withdraw from "land" occupied by Israel in 1967 when it withdrew from Gaza and Jericho. Palestinians say that the UN resolution states that Israel has to withdraw from "THE land" it occupied in 1967. The word "THE" makes a big big big difference.

[@edansw]

Palestines don't even recognize Israel, what peace will they make with it

[@JackJackJack123]

Her grandchildren have seen peace with Egypt, Jordan, UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, Oman, and soon with Saudi Arabia. As soon as Palestinians don’t prioritize killing Jews above all else they’ll see peace with them too.

[@WKGWOMANINTN]

Perhaps it will happen only when the Prince of Peace reigns.

[@ECKohns]

Well right after she resigned from office, Israel found peace with Egypt. Right after Israel and Egypt had gone to War with each other for the 3rd time. And that peace agreement has held ever since (even after Egypt went through a revolution). So Israel is technically closer to peace now than it was in 1969. I like to believe it is possible. It’ll take several more decades and it won’t be easy, but I like to be hopeful.

[@jont2576]

It's not just about peace,it's about not taking advantage of others abusing others and explioting others what's the point of saying u what peace of course nobody wants to die or fight at the very bare minimum for the sake of their own self interests and self preservation. But when u commit grave injustices to others and cover it with ominous and insidious lies and saying u want peace is peak irony and borderline sociopathic!!!! When these people say they want peace that is after they committed the worst transgressions u would conveniently sweep the past away,accept things as it is and embrace peace!!!!!

[@healthyself7941]

This woman also said, "let them go to Jordan" referring to the thousands of Palestinians who were forcibly expelled from their land by a newly created Israel. The land grab has continued to the present day 2023. Is it any wonder the Palestinians oppose the brutal cruelty of Israel?

[@eranhasid7630]

Land grab happened in 1967 because of arab hostility. Arab countries that were willing to make peace like Egypt for example got their land back.

[@RBoo7]

Born in Kiev in the Russian Empire to Ukrainian Jewish parents, Meir immigrated as a child with her family to the United States in 1906.. WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN PALESTINE???????????,?

[@healthyself7941]

@@RBoo7 Agree with you totally.

[@UKindness4]

She did not imagine a Netanyahu dictator running that county with billionaires bullies stealing land and killing with impunity.

[@abdullatifb]

She stated the key to world peace, right there!… We simply need to evoke the lessons and memories or our mothers.This is an appeal, even to your enemy, which when said with respect and commonality, establishes a human foundation to build upon. The next words out of one’s mouth after putting your mother in it, is almost an oath… never to be disavowed, whether the mother is alive or not. There you will find that speaker standing right there next to his mother’s side… dedicated and true, forever wanting her love and approval. This other issue (being negotiated ) is petty in comparison.(RMM) Remembering My mother. Sign, Balanta

[@smi2le4ever]

well she was wrong

[@thomasdarling2553]

Well this didn't age well

[@2148aa]

Nothing will change in another 50 years.

[@markheller8646]

Great women

[@Melanie00000]

too bad grandmothers aren't running these countries now!

[@its-all-happening2172]

Well...she was only human being like the rest of us. We all expect a better world to live in but in reality is torn apart and full of evil.

[@nguyen_van_a]

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree

[@artifactsandbigracks3999]

Wishful thinking. I could say lots of negative things about that decision paradigm. Reality isn't always pretty but ignore it...a price will be paid .

[@mikeymcmikeface5599]

TEN YEARS smh

[@c.eb.1216]

I'm impressed they had a woman prime minister. The UK too. The US is so behind the times.

[@kennethmartinez8731]

That makes you “behind”? We had Hillary, do you blame us? you’re backwards for believing such nonsense

[@FriendofMineralTown]

Oh yes the UK female PMs have been so successful. Thatcher, that after more than 30 years is regrettable such as Reagan is. Or maybe you liked May or Truss better, aka the forgotten ones, one of them being compared to a cabbage in a decaying process. The US needs its own female rotting cabbage I guess.

[@uncleogrimacy]

Women can commit genocide as well as any man!

[@rogerorlando2349]

Yeah Hillary would have been a real gem as president.

[@kap1526]

US is ahead of times in many aspects.

[@user-nt2lq6pd7k]

Will how ignorant she was

[@McCarthy911]

Its common sense. Its an occupation

[@4681MM]

That didnt age well

[@lifeS458]

She expressed the statue set everybody not d*** because of Hussein. I called Insane

[@bobomaigret5430]

Golda Meir's peace meant peace for Zionists.

[@elfredacarty9134]

What of the hostages? Couldn't they be caught up in these bombings?

[@aseel8664]

To anyone reading this comment, there is another video of her saying that she carried the Palestinian passport up until 1948. It just summarizes the whole situation. Creating a country on top of an existing country should not be acceptable. How is this even logical to some people?

[@julesbc9031]

Like Pakistan?

[@aseel8664]

@@julesbc9031 what about Pakistan? sorry for my ignorance

[@julesbc9031]

@@aseel8664 just that Pakistan was created out of parts of india around the same time in history. So no doubt many Indians then changed Their passports to Pakistani passports.There should be the same for Israel and Palestine - two separate states. Like India and Pakistan. They both need autonomy but unfortunately it appears that the Palestinians or at least Hamas want Israel destroyed and gone and that isn’t going to happen. The Jews biblically are the people of Israel and in ancient times it was Israel. They both have a claim and the only real solution is two separate states. They should get along because they share the same biblical roots as far as religion goes. All this drama around Palestine wanting it’s land back is like a child chucking it’s toys out of the cot because it doesn’t want to share its bedroom with a sibling because it wants all thee bedroom, but where does the sibling go then? Humanity needs to grow up. Emotions are high on both sides understandably though, so it’s going to need a lot of diplomatic intervention and currently the world is I think in shock, scared and not sure what to do for the best. Jews/ Israelis arnt evil and neither are Palestinians.

[@ozzy7912]

Palestine wasn't a country. It never was. It was a territory which switched hands between colonial and imperialist powers for 2,000 years.

[@aseel8664]

Call it whatever you like. Everyone held Palestinian passports. Creating a country by displacing and genociding the indigenous people is a crime@@ozzy7912

[@banksy2870]

Golda Meir was very wrong because she overlooked a few things. She talks about mothers and grandmothers in other Arab countries wanting peace - that should not have been expected at least half a century ago because at that point in time, most of these women did not have any education or higher level thinking, unlike Israeli women who were highly educated even then. What we have seen so far is that Palestinians teaching their children to hate Israelis - just look at the pictures of children holding guns and attacking Israelis - that is enough to tell you that if today's children are being taught this at such a young age the conflict will only worsen for the next generation. Looking at the Israelis' side it seems quite clear that they are also leaning very much towards the right-wing side - they have elected a hardliner like Netanyahu who has made conditions bad for the Palestinians in the West Bank and really does not seem to have any interest in negotiation or establishing a semblance of peaceful relations with Palestine. Both sides are leaning towards extremist ideologies so, things will only get worse.

[@cortneyeverett6927]

🗣Repent Israelites all praise to the most high YAHAWAH AND HIS SON YAHAWASHI🤴🏽🦁🔥🛸 The so called black man, Latino, and Native Americans are the Israelites. Yahawah chosen people. That are scattered in all nations through our fathers. Making them Israelite foreigners/Scattered sheep/The multitude. Yahawashi speaking: Matthew 15:24 “But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Deuteronomy 7:6 “For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. Revelation 2:9 “I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.” Revelation 3:9 “Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.”

[@beezaray4130]

this!!

[@nariwashere8549]

So many Millenials and GenZ Simps here😂

[@no-orwelliandystopia]

Talk about the Cold War cruelty and horror , that what was happening between Egypt and Israel 1:23

[@user-xd7dk3oy3q]

No mention of Palestine??

[@navyflyer7465]

Golda Meir was was born in Kiev Ukraine.

[@Nader.subaih]

She did not mention Palestinian Mothers. She herself said that she was Palestinian between 1921 and 1947. look up the video. What did Palestinians do to deserve this? exist?

[@kakaistheman2007]

actually it's the jews that were denied a state and that are killed today because they want to exist.

[@glennmandigo6069]

Isn't she one of the reasons why Israel was caught off guard in 1973?

[@browngreen933]

They'd have peace if they colonized Madagascar like Eichmann suggested instead of Palestine.😢

[@kc_1018]

Just letting people know that you can criticize Israel AND not be anti-semitic.

[@GTA5Player1]

Honestly, that's just such a boomer way of thinking...

[@b.1162]

It's funny because I know if you were in a Muslim country, you'd be too cowardly to criticize Islam. I'm sure you can do that without being Islamophobic too, right?

[@marekbrodowski7225]

Looks like she was wrong 😂

[@LucasVitorFonseca]

Politics, we can't trust them.

[@sandrocavali9810]

Hasn't happened

[@GhostOfArtBell0935]

Man, what a dog. Imagine if she and Brezhnev had a baby.

[@candaceshirley8173]

Golda Meir is a lady we certainly need in the here and now, 🇮🇱 Israel, has a full right to defend itself from terrorism and what was commited in October

[@samgone3702]

What are you talking about??!?? Spewing propaganda!! IsrHell was literally founded and made possible by zi@ni$t terr@ri$t$! And then they elected them as Isrehelli prime ministers!! Menachem Begin helped bomb the King David Hotel in 1946 and then was elected prime Minister, having glorified Israhelli terr@ri$m. Tens of thousands of israehellis participated in these terror groups like the Irgun, Hagannah, and the Lehi. You are entitled to your own opinions NOT your own FACTS!

[@moonshoes11]

Religion can never bring peace.

[@Mike-bp2hh]

I think it would be cool if when you can't open a jar of something you exclaim " Oh pickles!" I really want to make this a thing. Please help me get this off the ground. Thank you for your anticipated cooperation

[@yosraaouichaoui3686]

🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@algernonsidney8746]

Considering that she was apart of a government that presided over the Nakba and the illegal occupation of Palestinian territory from 1967 onwards, her expectation that her grandchildren would see peace was optimistic to say the least.

[@rotemaviaroor]

Yes the nakba is the day where they regret running away and listening to 5 arab armies that started a war in their name and still lost😂😂

[@algernonsidney8746]

Actually the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians started in late 1947 before the attack of the 5 Arab armies which happened in 1948. The Palestinians ran away because the Haganah and far right militias such Lehi and the Irgun forced them out at gun and canon point. Of those 5 armies, the Jordanian one had no interest in destroying Israel, it just wanted to annex what is now the West Bank and reached a secret accord with the Israeli government. It ended up occupying this territory from 49 to 67.@@rotemaviaroor

[@rotemaviaroor]

@@algernonsidney8746 it was the British mandate nothing was official atrocities happend much more to the jewish side plenty of massacres all around...and the cherry on top the mufti meeting Hitler agreeing with him on killin jews like old friends...so you are wrong

[@rotemaviaroor]

@@algernonsidney8746 Jordan had an interest to destroy us you just wrote it the Jordanian used bother jews a lot...

[@brandonburns5365]

​@@rotemaviaroorwith Americans money goofball 😅

[@cdes68]

Auto conviction not worth much eh.

[@sophiegonzalez2841]

FUNNY COMMENT ON " US IS SO BEHIND TIMES " 😊

[@Robin-mj6jv]

They are not the true people.of that land. They will never see peace.

[@blackorisha]

And since then Israel made sure it won’t ever happen

[@JenXOfficialEDM]

I just wish for an integrated country. Stop the segregation. We cannot change the past, only learn from it.

[@jackfenton2271]

The God Wars will continue until humanity grows up and leaves god behind.

[@thatsmysidehustle4261]

They did for 2 years under trump ar least short lived

[@HugoChavez1996]

Israël 🇮🇱 is taking the last breath , you’re confronting the toughest people on earth 🌍 and in the history of humanity , there’s no Solution but to recognize the Palestinians rights to exist in their land , their state and end the occupation .

[@simriths.s5976]

Dream on terrorist sympathizer

[@84MadHatter]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWilqn2YbLaEb7csi=KxfIzNtTlBGAWyZs

[@rotemaviaroor]

😂😂😂😂😂 I have never laughed so hard 💙🇮🇱💙 israel is for forever in the meanwhile you keep crushing and crushing and everything I see people like I feel less and less sorry for the Balestinians than can't even pronounce "Palestine" properly claiming they are the Palestinians the Romans called for the sake of humiliation😂

[@youremamasofat4414]

Clearly you ran out of your meds in Gaza

[@HugoChavez1996]

@@youremamasofat4414 I am healthy all praises due to the most gracious most merciful almighty God , I hope you will live longer to see it , this is the beginning of the end of the Zionists entity .

[@jeshkam]

The original iron lady. ❤️🇵🇱🇮🇱❤️

[@uncleogrimacy]

Yet she started an occupation that still continues, and simps still fall for these crocodile tears

[@84MadHatter]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWilqn2YbLaEb7csi=KxfIzNtTlBGAWyZs

[@motionattached]

Both sides believe the GOD on their side, that is the same GOD! Do people really believe two people fooling each other and killing each other would eventually find peace together? That is not part of human nature.

[@amaroussama]

They will see death

[@shalevshimoni5008]

You and all your people will see it

[@parpaasbarpaas4603]

well that guy called Golda was wrong and he just lied to his grandchildren to convince them to stay there, and somehow make them believe that they aren't fighting a losing battle

[@yasminribeiro4187]

Genius Jews are living in peace … so many genius …

[@tactik5903]

your propaganda is failing miserably

[@williamwilson6499]

She thought they would have slaughtered all of the Palestinians for her grandchildren.

[@84MadHatter]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWilqn2YbLaEb7csi=KxfIzNtTlBGAWyZs

[@jacobdegen]

She was wrong. Free Palestine.

[@Dr_MKUltra]

How can there be peace within a settler colonial genocidal society?

[@gnweiss]

Golda could not see Barbarians for what they are, sick and evil

[@deadpoolx2378]

You right dont warry shes in the hill killed by sick rong by Good

[@shalevshimoni5008]

​@@deadpoolx2378she wasn't palestinian