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.

In 1917 Golda Meir took a position at a Yiddish-speaking Folks Schule in Milwaukee. Abdullah asked her not to hurry to proclaim a state. And there I was sitting down and signing a declaration of establishment.

Golda Meir (earlier Golda Meyerson born Golda Mabovich Голда Мабович; May 3 1898 – December 8 1978) was an Israeli teacher kibbutznik and politician who became the fourth Prime Minister of Israel. She died in 1978 of lymphoma. Israel's first and the world's third woman to hold such an office Golda Meir was described as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics years before the epithet became associated with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.