Golda Meir Zitate und Sprüche
auf einem Bankett am 10. Juni 1973 während des Staatsbesuches von Bundeskanzler Willy Brandt in Israel; zitiert bei Pierre Heumann: Riskanter Reichtum. Jüdische Allgemeine 8. Oktober 2010 http://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/article/view/id/8582
Englisch: "Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!" - New York Times vom 10. Juni 1973; Fred R. Shapiro: The Yale Book of Quotations. Yale UP 2006, p. 508 . Als "He dragged us 40 years through the desert to bring us to the one place in the Middle East where there was no oil" im Nachruf von Irael Shenker New York Times December 9, 1978 http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0503.html
Hebräisch: ""הרשו נא לי לומר דבר אחד שיש לנו הישראלים נגד משה: הוא הוביל אותנו במדבר במשך ארבעים שנה, אך הביא אותנו למקום היחידי במזרח התיכון שאין בו נפט." - he.wikiquote http://he.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D7%92%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%93%D7%94_%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A8
Ähnlich der Eingangsabschnitt "...Und zogen die Kinder Israels" des Buches "Kein Öl, Moses? Neue Satiren" von Ephraim Kishon (Übersetzung Friedrich Torberg. Langen Müller München 1974): "Und die Kinder Israels gingen vierzig Jahre lang, bis daß sie ins Gelobte Land kamen, und floß auch dort nur Milch und Honig, aber kein Öl." ephraimkishon.de http://www.ephraimkishon.de/kein_oel_moses.htm
Golda Meir: Zitate auf Englisch
As acting head of the Jewish Agency Political Department visited Arab Haifa and reported to the Jewish Agency Executive (6 May 1948); as quoted in "The birth of the Palestinian Refuge problem revisited" by Benny Morris, p. 309/10 of 2nd Edition 2004, citing Protocol of meeting of JAE, 6 May 1948, CZA 45/2
Kontext: It is a dreadful thing to see the dead city. Next to the port I found children, women, the old, waiting for a way to leave. I entered the houses, there were houses where the coffee and pita bread were left on the table, and I could not avoid [thinking] that this, indeed, had been the picture in many Jewish towns [i. e., in Europe, during World War II]'.
Fallaci interview (1973)
