Etiqueta: Golda Meir

  • Broadcast to the nation

    «Citizens of Israel, Shortly before two p.m. today, the armies of Egypt and Syria opened an offensive against Israel, launching a series of air, armored and artillery attacks in Sinai and on the Golan Heights. The Israel Defense Forces have entered the fight, and are beating back the assault. The enemy has suffered grave losses.…

  • Attainment Of Peace

    At this opening of our parliamentary session, I wish to survey the security and political conjuncture. In recent months, and in the past weeks especially, the security situation has worsened seriously on the southern front in particular, and the harmful effect of that is felt on the other fronts also. The main feature of this…

  • The Gaza Strip

    I rise to make a statement on the problems of the Sinai Desert, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Gaza Strip. On 3 December 1956 Israeli forces withdrew from the Suez Canal area along the length of the Canal to a distance of some 50 kilometres. This action enabled the United Nations Emergency Force to…

  • Chicago speech which made the Jewish nation possible

    I have had the privilege of representing Palestine Jewry in this country and in other countries when the problems that we faced were those of building more kibbutzim, of bringing in more Jews in spite of political obstacles and Arab riots.We always had faith that in the end we would win, that everything we were…