"We're the only people in the world, where our
neighbors openly announce they just won't have us here. And they
will not give up fighting and they will not give up war as long as
we remain alive here.
This is the crux of the problem: It isn't anything
concrete that they want from us. They say we must be dead. And we
say we want to be alive. Between life and death, I don't know of a
compromise."
- Prime Minister Golda Meier
(1948) |