Fifty years ago, Golda Meir made what seems now to be a stunning observation/prophecy.
“We cannot forgive the Arabs for killing our sons. We cannot forgive them for inciting us to kill their sons. Peace will only come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.”
Golda Meir, Fourth Prime Minister of Israel
and the first female head of state in the Middle East
Examine that quote. I am not pointing to the attitude toward forgiveness. I am not holding Golda Meir to a Christian standard of forgiveness. I am struck instead by her comment related to “inciting us to kill their sons.” There is grief in that phrase. There is remorse in that phrase. There is love for human life in that phrase, love, even for her enemy in that statement.
Grief at the loss of Arab lives on the part of the Jews.
No grief at the loss of Jewish lives on the part of the Arab world.
And that is at the heart of the problem in the Middle East. Golda Meir had discerned a difference in the worldview of the Arab world and its rhetoric and the worldview of Israel and its leadership. She knew it 50 years ago. In 2004, Hassan Nasrallah, in an interview explained “why Hizballah, the organization he heads, is destined to prevail over Israel: ‘The Jews love life, so that is what we shall take away from them. We are going to win, because they love life and we love death.'”*
“In 2007, two years before he killed thirteen people and wounded twenty-nine at Fort Hood, Texas, Nidal Malik Hasan prepared a slide show for his fellow Army doctors on the subject of Islam. One of his last points read: “We love death more than you love life!”*
In 2012, on Hamas TV, Hamas leadership issued a warning to Israel, making Golda Meir’s observation sound prescient.
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You have provided insight into why Golda Meir said what she did! Blessings!
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