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Narrator: a woman called
Golda, the story so far:
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Golda, the cigarette.
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What's the matter? You're
afraid I'll die young?
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The children. We're almost there.
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In 1977...
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...Golda Meir returned to her
grammar school in Milwaukee.
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We welcome to the 4th street school...
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...our most distinguished graduate:
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Mrs. Golda Meir.
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How shall I describe her?
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To people all over the world...
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...she was one of the
great women of this century.
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Some say she was the greatest.
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It's hard for me to judge.
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To me, she was my longtime dear friend.
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This is the dream I've had...
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...Ever since I was a
little girl in Russia...
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...Frightened for my life.
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The dream that we can have the same
peace and security other people have.
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The only way we're ever going to
get it is in a Jewish homeland.
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If I won't go, you won't marry me?
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I'd love to marry you, Morris.
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I was thinking of a baby.
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I didn't hear that.
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I'm saying, I think we should have a child.
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Really? When did the committee tell you...
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...we could go to work on this child?
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You are a very capable person.
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Whatever you do, you do well.
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So we want you to be a
delegate to the Histadrut.
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Me?
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No, Ariel. I couldn't.
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I don't want to spend the rest of
my life feeling sick and useless.
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Where will you go?
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It's up to you.
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If you'll come with me,
I'll stay in Palestine.
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If not, I'll go back to America.
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So we left the kibbutz...
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...which I was very unhappy about.
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And we went to live in Jerusalem.
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And the years passed.
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Morris became a bookkeeper, and I
became the mother of two children.
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You're not working?
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I wouldn't call bringing up two
small children exactly loafing.
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I wouldn't call it anything very much...
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...Considering how badly
we need your capabilities.
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He's got some hell of a nerve...
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...trying to talk you into Tel Aviv,
when I work in Jerusalem.
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He didn't have to try very hard.
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I took the job, Morris.
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In the years following
the separation from Morris...
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...Golda was intensely involved in
Israel's struggle for independence.
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One whole year!
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You trying to say, somebody who
came last week should go ahead of me?
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If I stay much longer, I'll die here.
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No, no. We are
trying to get you all off.
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But... The children first.
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On may 15th...
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...the British will pull out.
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The Arabs will invade.
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What is the present strength of the Haganah?
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A hundred-thousand able-bodied soldiers.
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And on the other side?
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Four-hundred thousand Arab soldiers.
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If you could keep Abdullah out of the war...
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...It might save us.
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We must have our own state...
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...and the time is now.
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And if the only way we can
have it is to go to war...
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...we'll go to war. And we'll beat you.
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If there is a war, it will be her fault.
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Her fault!
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Because she is a stubborn...
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...arrogant...
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...Damned woman.
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On this night...
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...I could only think about the Arab
legion joining four other armies against us.
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I said to myself:
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"I failed.
There will be war. "
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In a moment,
"a woman called Golda" continues.
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By the middle of February...
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...Arab guerilla attacks
had already started.
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In four months, the British
were scheduled to leave...
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...and the Arab countries
were certain to invade us.
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We needed arms.
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According to Ben-Gurion...
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...to equip a Jewish army...
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...would require 25 million dollars.
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There's only one country in the world...
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...In which we can raise so
much money in so little time.
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I am going to the United States immediately.
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I must make our American friends
understand how serious the situation is.
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Excuse me, BG. I'm sorry to interrupt.
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But you can't possibly
leave at a time like this.
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Look. What you are doing here, I can't do.
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But I might be able to do
what you want to do in America.
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What makes you think that you
can raise this kind of money?
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I speak the language-
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So do I. And the other?
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I'm American.
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No. This is too important.
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Let us put it to a vote.
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A vote? Are you calling
a vote to overrule me?
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Why not?
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We are founding the only
democracy in the Middle East.
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In a democracy, the majority rules.
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Those in favor of sending Golda?
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Opposed?
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None. Golda goes.
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Nu. Democracy.
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Do you have a proper coat? You
know it gets cold in New York.
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No, I don't have any
coat. I'll buy one there.
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You could stay here an extra
day. You could buy one here.
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Probably, but Ben-Gurion insists
that I take the plane this afternoon.
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Why?
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I think he's trying to get even with me.
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What a life.
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We don't even have time for
ourselves, let alone for each other.
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Well, maybe when I get back.
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I probably won't be here.
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Really? Where are you going?
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Pilsen.
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Pilsen? What's there?
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There's very good beer in
Pilsen. Pilsner beer is famous.
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Ariel, what is this?
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You're not going to
Czechoslovakia to drink beer.
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Now, I'm- I'm leaving right away.
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Now, Ariel, please tell me.
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You know that we have been trying to put
together an air force for the Haganah.
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And Ehud has managed to buy some
Messerschmitt 109 fighter planes.
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Well, what is in Pilsen besides
beer, is the Skoda munitions factory.
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They made Messerschmitts for the Germans.
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And I am going there to
hire aircraft mechanics.
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I know the Czech government
has been selling us arms.
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But the situation is
very unstable there now.
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By the time you get there, the
Soviet Union could be running things.
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And I wouldn't trust those
fellows to be any friends of ours.
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How do you know they would even
let a Jewish agent into the country?
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I don't. And I certainly don't have time...
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...to be held up at the border
while they bury me in red tape.
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So do you have an answer for that?
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Well, I... Will parachute in.
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No. No, don't do it, Ariel.
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Please, forget the whole
idea. It's all wrong for you.
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Why is it wrong for me?
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Because- because you're too badly
needed here. Let someone else go.
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I am one of the very few people
who can speak the language.
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No, there are others.
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For hiring mechanics, any
businessman would do better.
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And how many businessmen do you think
we have with parachute training?
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The training is one thing.
This is different.
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What is different?
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We'll never see each other again.
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Golda.
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Do you really think that
you can talk me out of going?
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Not for a minute.
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You have to understand,
this is not a Zionist organization.
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Some of these people, maybe a lot of
them, are just not interested in Palestine.
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All of them are sick and tired of
hearing how badly we need money?
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Well, frankly, they're under pressure to
raise funds for institutions in America.
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Jewish hospitals, Jewish charities all
over the country, they need money too.
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It might be better if you didn't
address this group, Mrs. Meyerson.
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Wait. And let us set up
a more favorable audience.
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No, I have to get through to these people.
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Well then, it might be a good idea if
you let me take a look at your speech.
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I haven't prepared a speech.
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You mean, you don't know
what you're going to say?
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I'll know when the time comes to say it.
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Please believe me when I tell you...
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...I did not come to the United States...
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...only because 700,000 Jews
are in danger of being killed.
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That is not the issue.
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The issue is...
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...that if the Jews of Palestine survive...
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...then the Jews of the
world survive with them.
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And their freedom will be assured forever.
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But...
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...If these 700,000 are wiped
off the face of the earth...
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...then there'll be no
Jewish people, as such.
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And for centuries to come...
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...all our hopes and
dreams of a Jewish nation...
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...a Jewish homeland, will be smashed.
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My friends:
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When I say that we need money immediately...
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...I don't mean next week.
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I mean right now.
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In less than four months, we'll
be fighting for our lives...
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...against cannon and armor.
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It is not for you to
decide whether we'll fight.
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That decision is taken.
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We will fight.
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We'll pay for the birth of
our nation with our blood.
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That is normal.
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The best of us...
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...will fall. That is certain.
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There is only one thing for you to decide:
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Whether we'll win...
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...or we'll lose.
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Golda raised not 25 million dollars.
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She raised 50.
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The money went directly to
the capitals of the world...
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...where Ben-Gurion had sent agents
to purchase arms for the Haganah.
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And in a converted museum...
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...one day before the scheduled pullout:
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An historic event.
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Exiled from the land of Israel...
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...the Jewish people have returned...
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...Believing in their self-evident
right to be a nation...
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...Like all other nations...
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...In their own sovereign state...
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I imagine every people
that declares its independence...
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...Goes through difficulties.
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But for us, there was such deadly danger...
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...that some of our friends strongly
advised us not to proclaim independence.
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But we were determined to do it anyway.
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By virtue of this right...
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...and of the resolution of the general
assembly of the united nations...
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...we hereby proclaim...
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...the establishment of the
Jewish State in Palestine...
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...to be called:
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Israel.
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The next day, may
15th, right on schedule...
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...Israel was invaded by
the armies of six countries.
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Weapons bought with the
money Golda had raised...
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...Began to arrive in chartered ships:
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Rifles, hand grenades, artillery pieces.
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One of the first ships brought
ten Messerschmitt fighter planes...
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...and aircraft mechanics
from Czechoslovakia.
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In a few more days, the Arabs
were being driven back...
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...or contained on all fronts.
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And with her work done,
Golda flew home from America.
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Shalom, Golda. I'm going to make a speech.
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It will be short, so don't expect much.
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Alright, BG.
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One day, when history is
written, it will be recorded...
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...there was a woman who made it possible...
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...For the Jewish state to be born.
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Shalom.
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In the united
nations general assembly...
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...the Arab countries now accepted
a proposal for a cease-fire.
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It left Israel with some
gains over the partition plan.
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But it divided Jerusalem, with
the old city in Jordanian hands.
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And despite the UN agreement...
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...For the next 19 years...
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...Jews were denied access
to their holiest site:
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The Western Wall of Solomon's temple.
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And the problem of the
Palestinian refugees was created.
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I'm sure some Palestinian Arabs
fled because they were frightened.
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But many left because their
leaders told them to...
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00:15:59,459 --> 00:16:03,428
...Promising that after we
were driven into the sea...
251
00:16:03,429 --> 00:16:07,633
...they would come back and
take over Jewish property.
252
00:16:09,301 --> 00:16:12,905
Of course, we were not
driven into the sea...
253
00:16:14,574 --> 00:16:17,709
...and those people became homeless.
254
00:16:17,710 --> 00:16:20,312
None of the Arab countries
would give them a home.
255
00:16:20,313 --> 00:16:22,647
Only two would even let them in...
256
00:16:22,648 --> 00:16:26,518
...and they confined them to refugee camps.
257
00:16:27,786 --> 00:16:30,188
They are the only people in history...
258
00:16:30,189 --> 00:16:32,657
...to remain refugees...
259
00:16:32,658 --> 00:16:35,326
...after 30 years.
260
00:16:44,670 --> 00:16:46,804
Now...
261
00:16:46,805 --> 00:16:49,207
...David Ben-Gurion...
262
00:16:49,208 --> 00:16:52,310
...was the first prime minister of Israel.
263
00:16:52,311 --> 00:16:56,948
And he appointed me to his
cabinet as minister of labor.
264
00:16:56,949 --> 00:17:01,553
So I needed an assistant...
265
00:17:01,554 --> 00:17:07,291
...and a lady named Lou
Kaddar applied for the job.
266
00:17:07,292 --> 00:17:09,761
I speak English.
French, even better.
267
00:17:09,762 --> 00:17:12,464
I was born in France.
268
00:17:12,465 --> 00:17:14,432
How are you at writing letters?
269
00:17:14,433 --> 00:17:16,668
Would you like to see a sample?
270
00:17:16,669 --> 00:17:21,939
I read that a stevedoring
company executive just died.
271
00:17:21,940 --> 00:17:26,444
You might want to send
a letter of condolence.
272
00:17:26,445 --> 00:17:30,115
What a beautiful letter.
Did you know this man?
273
00:17:30,116 --> 00:17:32,684
Yes, actually.
274
00:17:32,685 --> 00:17:35,486
Was he as much of a saint as you say here?
275
00:17:35,487 --> 00:17:37,422
He was a son-of-a-bitch.
276
00:17:39,859 --> 00:17:43,862
Well, you might be very good at this job.
277
00:17:43,863 --> 00:17:46,631
Do you think you'd like working with me?
278
00:17:46,632 --> 00:17:48,232
I would love it.
279
00:17:48,233 --> 00:17:50,268
How do you know that you'd love it?
280
00:17:50,269 --> 00:17:52,670
I was with the Haganah. I was wounded.
281
00:17:52,671 --> 00:17:56,607
I haven't worked since
I got out of hospital.
282
00:17:56,608 --> 00:18:01,213
Madam minister, I'm tired
of being hungry all the time.
283
00:18:01,214 --> 00:18:03,148
That's a good answer.
284
00:18:03,149 --> 00:18:05,951
Alright, as far as I'm
concerned, the job is yours.
285
00:18:05,952 --> 00:18:09,788
But I have to check with
Ben-Gurion before it's definite.
286
00:18:09,789 --> 00:18:12,157
Will that be a problem?
287
00:18:12,158 --> 00:18:15,661
Absolutely not. No problem at all.
288
00:18:15,662 --> 00:18:17,095
What's the name again?
289
00:18:17,096 --> 00:18:18,663
Kaddar. Lou Kaddar.
290
00:18:18,664 --> 00:18:20,165
Never heard of him.
291
00:18:20,166 --> 00:18:22,967
Her. The point is not whether
you've ever heard of her-
292
00:18:22,968 --> 00:18:25,570
Correct! The point
is, you don't need her.
293
00:18:25,571 --> 00:18:27,605
I'm sending you a very fine man.
294
00:18:27,606 --> 00:18:30,308
He's been liaison to the
Zionist office in Geneva.
295
00:18:30,309 --> 00:18:32,977
He can not only write you
effective speeches in Hebrew...
296
00:18:32,978 --> 00:18:35,246
...But also in English,
French, and Spanish.
297
00:18:35,247 --> 00:18:37,515
Plus! He's a very great administrator.
298
00:18:37,516 --> 00:18:41,252
He'll make your office run like
a watch. His name is Rothenberg.
299
00:18:41,253 --> 00:18:43,854
Well, you seem to be very
enthusiastic about him.
300
00:18:43,855 --> 00:18:45,823
I am enthusiastic about him!
301
00:18:45,824 --> 00:18:48,993
Fine. You take Rothenberg
for your assistant.
302
00:18:48,994 --> 00:18:50,862
I'll take Lou Kaddar for mine.
303
00:18:58,337 --> 00:19:00,572
Israel had peace.
304
00:19:00,573 --> 00:19:02,808
Or what was hoped would be peace.
305
00:19:02,809 --> 00:19:06,678
And with it, a tidal wave of immigrants.
306
00:19:06,679 --> 00:19:10,148
Jews not only from Europe,
but from Arab countries:
307
00:19:10,149 --> 00:19:12,851
From Syria, Egypt, Lebanon...
308
00:19:12,852 --> 00:19:16,253
...Tunisia, morocco, Yemen.
309
00:19:20,826 --> 00:19:24,295
The minister of labor had to find them jobs.
310
00:19:24,296 --> 00:19:27,165
Shalom, Mr. Friedenthal. How is it going?
311
00:19:27,166 --> 00:19:30,035
Well, madam minister,
you have to understand...
312
00:19:30,036 --> 00:19:34,505
...that these men never held a brick
or a cement block in their hands before.
313
00:19:34,506 --> 00:19:38,176
I do, of course. We depend
on you to teach them.
314
00:19:38,177 --> 00:19:42,580
Well, they- they learn quickly.
But I have a problem.
315
00:19:42,581 --> 00:19:43,782
Yes?
316
00:19:43,783 --> 00:19:46,184
In my group, there are ten men.
317
00:19:46,185 --> 00:19:49,253
And I speak only six languages.
318
00:19:54,426 --> 00:19:56,427
To Golda, personally...
319
00:19:56,428 --> 00:19:59,764
...Peace meant a little more
time for everyday things.
320
00:19:59,765 --> 00:20:03,001
Such as washing her hair
as often as she liked.
321
00:20:03,002 --> 00:20:07,538
She also had a teakettle that
was never shiny enough for her.
322
00:20:07,539 --> 00:20:11,142
She told me she enjoyed
polishing it when she was alone.
323
00:20:11,143 --> 00:20:13,011
If she felt lonely...
324
00:20:13,012 --> 00:20:16,180
...she'd polish twice as hard.
325
00:20:16,181 --> 00:20:18,250
But as a cabinet minister...
326
00:20:18,251 --> 00:20:21,353
...Golda had too many concerns
to be alone very often.
327
00:20:21,354 --> 00:20:24,356
One developed from a visit
to Israeli kibbutzim...
328
00:20:24,357 --> 00:20:27,925
...By United States
Senator Hubert Humphrey.
329
00:20:27,926 --> 00:20:29,795
I must say, I am impressed...
330
00:20:29,796 --> 00:20:33,164
...By what these teachers are
accomplishing with retarded children.
331
00:20:33,165 --> 00:20:37,235
As you know, I have a particular interest
in special education because of a grandchild.
332
00:20:37,236 --> 00:20:39,270
Yes, so I understand, Senator.
333
00:20:39,271 --> 00:20:41,372
May I ask you...
334
00:20:41,373 --> 00:20:44,108
...another question,
possibly a little sensitive?
335
00:20:44,109 --> 00:20:45,710
Certainly.
336
00:20:45,711 --> 00:20:50,114
What about these young couples
living together who aren't married?
337
00:20:50,115 --> 00:20:53,819
Would you like to sit down, Senator?
338
00:20:53,820 --> 00:20:55,920
Personally, I never
thought much about it.
339
00:20:55,921 --> 00:20:59,057
To me, the main thing would be...
340
00:20:59,058 --> 00:21:01,159
...If people love each other.
341
00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:04,095
Mrs. Meyerson, the
main thing is the children.
342
00:21:04,096 --> 00:21:05,764
The children?
343
00:21:05,765 --> 00:21:08,599
Of course! What happens to
the children of those couples?
344
00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:12,370
Are they accepted by your
society, or are they stigmatized?
345
00:21:12,371 --> 00:21:15,973
Are they legally legitimate,
or are they bastards?
346
00:21:15,974 --> 00:21:18,410
I don't think it's much
of a problem for us.
347
00:21:18,411 --> 00:21:19,811
Why isn't it?
348
00:21:19,812 --> 00:21:22,747
Couples who aren't married
tend not to have children.
349
00:21:22,748 --> 00:21:24,883
But that problem is even worse.
350
00:21:24,884 --> 00:21:28,286
Your country needs to increase
its population, doesn't it?
351
00:21:28,287 --> 00:21:31,622
And a whole sector of your strongest
and healthiest young people...
352
00:21:31,623 --> 00:21:33,758
...Refuses to help.
353
00:21:33,759 --> 00:21:37,195
Senator, you're absolutely right.
354
00:21:37,196 --> 00:21:40,431
Look, we know who we are
and what our commitment is.
355
00:21:40,432 --> 00:21:43,167
We don't need a piece
of paper to tell us.
356
00:21:43,569 --> 00:21:45,637
But you love each other.
357
00:21:45,638 --> 00:21:47,772
You have a commitment to each other.
358
00:21:47,773 --> 00:21:50,107
What is so wrong being
married to each other?
359
00:21:50,108 --> 00:21:52,443
Nobody says there's
anything wrong with it.
360
00:21:52,444 --> 00:21:54,245
But nobody's gonna push us into it.
361
00:21:54,246 --> 00:21:57,582
Push you into it? Who
would ever do such a thing?
362
00:21:57,583 --> 00:22:01,052
Do you like
this room you're living in?
363
00:22:01,053 --> 00:22:03,121
Not very much.
364
00:22:03,122 --> 00:22:05,957
I thought not. Too
close to the chickens.
365
00:22:08,994 --> 00:22:12,197
Would you like to be assigned
a room near the flowers?
366
00:22:12,198 --> 00:22:13,798
Of course, we would.
367
00:22:13,799 --> 00:22:15,633
I can arrange that.
368
00:22:15,634 --> 00:22:20,071
What about that icebox
running all over the floor?
369
00:22:20,072 --> 00:22:23,141
I'm sure you wouldn't mind
an electric fridge?
370
00:22:23,142 --> 00:22:25,143
I can arrange that too.
371
00:22:26,078 --> 00:22:27,646
What's the catch?
372
00:22:27,647 --> 00:22:31,048
Catch? No catch.
373
00:22:31,049 --> 00:22:32,683
All I ask in return...
374
00:22:32,684 --> 00:22:35,620
...Is something you yourselves
say nothing is wrong with:
375
00:22:35,921 --> 00:22:37,322
Get married.
376
00:22:43,095 --> 00:22:47,032
Would you come to the wedding, Golda?
377
00:22:47,033 --> 00:22:51,135
She went to many
weddings, and also to a funeral.
378
00:23:06,718 --> 00:23:10,622
In 1951,
her husband Morris died.
379
00:23:12,391 --> 00:23:14,392
I remember thinking...
380
00:23:14,393 --> 00:23:16,861
...as though it weren't
too late to tell him:
381
00:23:16,862 --> 00:23:21,872
Dear Morris, I loved you
so in those early days.
382
00:23:21,873 --> 00:23:27,803
Things changed for us.
But in a way they stayed the same.
383
00:23:27,804 --> 00:23:31,995
I never lost that
feeling for you. Never.
384
00:23:32,077 --> 00:23:34,679
I thought how he loved our children...
385
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:36,814
...and they adored him.
386
00:23:36,815 --> 00:23:40,685
I thought, "Morris, at
least we can be glad...
387
00:23:40,686 --> 00:23:45,356
...that Sarah's marriage is working
out so much better than ours. "
388
00:23:45,357 --> 00:23:49,694
But mainly, I kept thinking
how very sad he was...
389
00:23:49,695 --> 00:23:52,029
...the last years of his life.
390
00:23:52,030 --> 00:23:54,065
And I was guilty.
391
00:23:54,066 --> 00:23:56,368
Because I could always get him to do...
392
00:23:56,369 --> 00:23:58,836
...Pretty much what I wanted.
393
00:23:58,837 --> 00:24:02,240
But I couldn't be the
wife that he wanted.
394
00:24:02,241 --> 00:24:04,175
And should have had.
395
00:24:04,176 --> 00:24:08,380
In the end, whatever I
was able to accomplish...
396
00:24:08,381 --> 00:24:10,782
...He paid for.
397
00:24:13,386 --> 00:24:17,088
Shalom, Morris.
398
00:24:24,196 --> 00:24:27,866
Golda was Israel's labor
minister for seven years...
399
00:24:27,867 --> 00:24:29,867
...Doing what she loved best:
400
00:24:29,868 --> 00:24:31,603
Working with people...
401
00:24:31,604 --> 00:24:34,338
...to provide the solid
things that people needed.
402
00:24:34,339 --> 00:24:36,273
Like housing.
403
00:24:36,274 --> 00:24:39,343
And some of the things that
turn a desert into a homeland.
404
00:24:39,344 --> 00:24:41,645
Like trees.
405
00:24:46,551 --> 00:24:48,586
During that time...
406
00:24:48,587 --> 00:24:52,890
...I suppose I became the
typical doting Jewish grandmother.
407
00:24:52,891 --> 00:24:55,226
Some people said I was
trying to make up...
408
00:24:55,227 --> 00:24:58,896
...For not having been a doting
Jewish mother to my own children.
409
00:24:58,897 --> 00:25:02,100
well, I suppose they were right.
410
00:25:02,101 --> 00:25:06,237
Anyway, between the joy
that the children gave me...
411
00:25:06,238 --> 00:25:09,273
...and the satisfaction of doing my job...
412
00:25:09,274 --> 00:25:11,375
...these were beautiful years.
413
00:25:11,376 --> 00:25:13,845
The best of my life.
414
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,521
With the coming to power...
415
00:25:23,522 --> 00:25:26,691
...of colonel Gamal Abdel Nassar in Egypt...
416
00:25:26,692 --> 00:25:30,261
...the end of Golda's
beautiful years was inevitable.
417
00:25:30,262 --> 00:25:32,597
From bases around Israel's borders...
418
00:25:32,598 --> 00:25:35,433
...Nassar sent terror
squads called "fedayeen"...
419
00:25:35,434 --> 00:25:38,169
...to stage indiscriminate attacks...
420
00:25:38,170 --> 00:25:43,908
...such as the killing of six children and
their teacher in an agricultural school.
421
00:25:43,909 --> 00:25:48,579
The official Cairo radio
made Nassar's intention clear.
422
00:25:50,624 --> 00:25:55,357
We or Israel! The day of
your extermination draws near.
423
00:25:55,381 --> 00:25:58,484
We have found the way to strike you.
424
00:25:58,508 --> 00:26:01,956
There will be no more
arguments at the UN.
425
00:26:01,957 --> 00:26:06,287
There will be no peace.
We demand the death of Israel. "
426
00:26:07,199 --> 00:26:09,800
And violence even found its way...
427
00:26:09,801 --> 00:26:13,271
...Into the Israeli parliament.
428
00:26:31,857 --> 00:26:35,259
Golda saved
Ben-Gurion's life that day.
429
00:26:35,260 --> 00:26:37,027
For the rest of her life...
430
00:26:37,028 --> 00:26:40,131
...she carried shrapnel in her leg.
431
00:26:40,132 --> 00:26:45,003
So I can believe what they
told me. You're alright.
432
00:26:45,004 --> 00:26:48,139
I'll be back in the
office tomorrow. If I live.
433
00:26:48,140 --> 00:26:50,574
If not, I'll be back the day after?
434
00:26:52,611 --> 00:26:54,913
Listen, Golda, speaking of living...
435
00:26:54,914 --> 00:26:57,849
...I didn't want to mention this
while your husband was alive...
436
00:26:57,850 --> 00:27:00,518
...But you still haven't
taken a Hebrew name.
437
00:27:01,353 --> 00:27:04,488
Well, I see no reason
to change "Meyerson".
438
00:27:04,489 --> 00:27:06,490
It's policy, Golda.
439
00:27:06,491 --> 00:27:08,892
You know well that every
member of the government...
440
00:27:08,893 --> 00:27:10,928
...Is expected to have a Hebrew name.
441
00:27:10,929 --> 00:27:14,932
And especially someone with your
high visibility outside Israel.
442
00:27:14,933 --> 00:27:18,002
Which is going to be even higher.
443
00:27:20,105 --> 00:27:22,306
What is this, now, BG?
444
00:27:23,508 --> 00:27:26,177
Moshe Sharett is leaving the cabinet...
445
00:27:26,178 --> 00:27:28,780
...to become secretary
general of the labor party.
446
00:27:28,913 --> 00:27:30,749
Who's going to be
Foreign Minister?
447
00:27:32,656 --> 00:27:35,101
You.
- No.
448
00:27:36,774 --> 00:27:39,516
I can't believe you mean such a thing.
449
00:27:39,517 --> 00:27:42,915
I certainly mean it.
- No, no, no.
450
00:27:42,939 --> 00:27:47,731
No, in the first place I don't want to leave
the Labor ministry, that's my kind of work.
451
00:27:47,783 --> 00:27:52,283
And the Foreign Ministry is full
of sophisticated intellectuals.
452
00:27:52,284 --> 00:27:57,051
With Oxford and Cambridge education,
how could I fit in with them.
453
00:27:57,142 --> 00:28:00,211
You will make them fit in
with you. I know you will.
454
00:28:03,784 --> 00:28:07,554
You know, when somebody asked me how I
could make a woman my foreign minister...
455
00:28:07,555 --> 00:28:10,824
Golda is the best man
in my cabinet. "
456
00:28:12,572 --> 00:28:16,236
Excuse me, BG, if I'm not
wild about the compliment.
457
00:28:16,260 --> 00:28:21,473
Fine don't be wild, but don't
be your stubborn yourself either.
458
00:28:21,595 --> 00:28:24,394
You take in over as Foreign Minister
and than is that.
459
00:28:24,395 --> 00:28:26,298
I'm stubborn.
460
00:28:26,322 --> 00:28:28,273
Now, about changing your name.
461
00:28:29,708 --> 00:28:34,212
I've thought of a name
that's very close to Meyerson:
462
00:28:36,154 --> 00:28:38,535
Meir...
463
00:28:38,559 --> 00:28:41,595
It's fine old Hebrew word that means...
464
00:28:41,619 --> 00:28:47,055
It means to illuminate.
To shed light.
465
00:28:48,407 --> 00:28:52,490
Golda Meir.
Golden light.
466
00:28:52,514 --> 00:28:56,050
You should give this most
serious consideration.
467
00:28:56,074 --> 00:28:59,170
Anything else I should do?
468
00:28:59,194 --> 00:29:07,688
Yes, you must understand that is not in my nature to make
a ### of what you did for me as much as I appreciated.
469
00:29:07,689 --> 00:29:09,350
Don't you think I know that.
470
00:29:10,088 --> 00:29:14,418
And another thing.
There must be no argument about it.
471
00:29:14,798 --> 00:29:18,456
You've got to take a little
better care of yourself.
472
00:29:18,457 --> 00:29:22,455
Don't be in such a hurry
to comeback to work.
473
00:29:22,456 --> 00:29:26,559
Go and spend sometime in a
nice hotel on the seashore.
474
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:31,246
Rest, relax, let your leg heal.
475
00:29:32,222 --> 00:29:35,732
Caesarea is a nice place.
- No argument, BG.
476
00:29:35,733 --> 00:29:38,013
I'll do exactly as you say.
477
00:29:38,042 --> 00:29:41,546
A week should
be more than enough.
478
00:29:45,459 --> 00:29:48,886
Almost as soon as Golda
Meyerson became Golda Meir,
479
00:29:48,910 --> 00:29:54,629
Israel's second Foreign Minister,
she had the problem of Israel's second war.
480
00:29:54,630 --> 00:29:57,752
The Arab leaders had never accepted peace.
481
00:29:57,753 --> 00:30:03,347
Egypt's president Nasser had nationalized
the Suez Canal and closed it to Israeli ships.
482
00:30:03,348 --> 00:30:06,079
And he was staging a
massive military build up
483
00:30:06,103 --> 00:30:09,407
...with weapons
supplied by the Soviet Union.
484
00:30:10,605 --> 00:30:14,412
On October 29, 1956
485
00:30:14,436 --> 00:30:17,596
under the command of
Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan
486
00:30:17,597 --> 00:30:23,462
the Israeli Army mostly reservist
crossed in to the Sinai Peninsula,
487
00:30:23,486 --> 00:30:30,498
they took the Gaza Strip, plus the
entire Sinai in less than a 100 hours.
488
00:30:30,522 --> 00:30:35,491
But the military victory turn to
a political defeat in to the UN.
489
00:30:35,515 --> 00:30:40,381
Israel came under intense
pressure to withdraw.
490
00:30:40,405 --> 00:30:48,216
And in response to UN guarantees of
freedom of navigation for Israeli ships
491
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,164
and all shipping in the Gulf of Aqaba
492
00:30:51,188 --> 00:30:55,732
and an end to terrorist raids,
493
00:30:55,756 --> 00:31:01,322
my government is prepared to announce
plans for a full and prompt withdraw
494
00:31:01,793 --> 00:31:04,629
...from the Sinai
and the Gaza Strip.
495
00:31:08,022 --> 00:31:11,610
Now, may I add few words
496
00:31:11,634 --> 00:31:14,806
...to the neighbors of Israel.
497
00:31:17,042 --> 00:31:21,998
Can we from now on all of us,
turn over a new leaf.
498
00:31:21,999 --> 00:31:26,851
Can we act, like sisters
and brothers should.
499
00:31:26,852 --> 00:31:32,226
Instead of fighting each other,
can we fight poverty,
500
00:31:32,250 --> 00:31:34,826
...disease, illiteracy?
501
00:31:34,827 --> 00:31:42,178
Hatred as never made one child in your
countries happier the implements of death.
502
00:31:42,179 --> 00:31:46,854
Has never converted a hovel in to a house.
503
00:31:46,855 --> 00:31:52,081
Isn�t it possible that we
could put all our efforts,
504
00:31:52,082 --> 00:31:55,275
our energy to one single purpose:
505
00:31:55,847 --> 00:31:59,851
The betterment of all our lands,
and all our people...
506
00:31:59,852 --> 00:32:04,771
Through the blessing of peace.
507
00:32:05,399 --> 00:32:10,241
There were some polite applause,
but not from the Arabs.
508
00:32:10,242 --> 00:32:14,799
So, I knew we are making
a mistake to withdraw,
509
00:32:14,823 --> 00:32:17,558
there would be no peace.
510
00:32:17,582 --> 00:32:22,602
Our soldiers who were killed or wounded
had only bought us a little time.
511
00:32:22,626 --> 00:32:24,809
And we would have to fight
again.
512
00:32:27,078 --> 00:32:29,580
Thank you, Mr. President.
513
00:32:33,605 --> 00:32:38,626
In the 1960's there was only one
woman Foreign Minister in the world
514
00:32:38,650 --> 00:32:42,291
and almost anybody in the world
could tell you her name was Golda.
515
00:32:42,315 --> 00:32:47,231
Golda traveled to the capitals of Europe,
to the United States and Canada,
516
00:32:47,255 --> 00:32:56,175
to Latin America, Japan, The Philippines,
Burma, Ethiopia and other places.
517
00:32:56,199 --> 00:33:00,671
I traveled with her and believe
she felt that of all continents
518
00:33:00,672 --> 00:33:03,816
she was able to accomplish
the most in Africa.
519
00:33:27,454 --> 00:33:31,833
Golda set up a program for thousands
of Africans to come to Israel
520
00:33:31,857 --> 00:33:35,467
to study subject like
hydrology and agriculture
521
00:33:35,491 --> 00:33:41,931
and thousands of Israeli doctors, engineers
and technical specialists were send to Africa.
522
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,189
Mrs. Meir,
my question is:
523
00:33:45,190 --> 00:33:52,049
Why is Israel going to the
considerable expense of this program.
524
00:33:52,995 --> 00:33:56,000
Israel is a small and poor nation
525
00:33:56,024 --> 00:34:01,653
but it has learned some hard lessons
of economic and social development.
526
00:34:01,654 --> 00:34:06,086
We feel the responsibility
to share what we've learned
527
00:34:06,087 --> 00:34:08,971
with other small and poor nations.
528
00:34:08,972 --> 00:34:12,361
Mrs. Meir that sounds very nice.
529
00:34:12,362 --> 00:34:17,906
But I'm from Algeria.
Your country is being armed by France.
530
00:34:17,907 --> 00:34:23,150
That government is brutal and
ruthless war against our people.
531
00:34:23,709 --> 00:34:27,154
How do you justify your
intimacy with the power
532
00:34:27,155 --> 00:34:31,316
that's an enemy of self-determination
for the African people.
533
00:34:32,746 --> 00:34:34,862
Our neighbors are oath to destroy us.
534
00:34:35,740 --> 00:34:38,609
They get up-to-date weapons
from the Soviet Union...
535
00:34:39,899 --> 00:34:42,069
free of charge.
536
00:34:42,854 --> 00:34:48,962
Most of our friends for whatever
reason don't sell us arms.
537
00:34:48,986 --> 00:34:52,813
The only country that will sell to us
538
00:34:52,837 --> 00:34:58,392
and for a lot of hard currency
let me tell you is France.
539
00:34:58,416 --> 00:35:02,769
And if the President de Gaulle
was the devil himself
540
00:35:02,793 --> 00:35:07,544
I would expect my government to buy from
him what we need to defend ourselves.
541
00:35:11,142 --> 00:35:14,946
And if you were in my position,
sir, what would you do?
542
00:35:17,521 --> 00:35:23,726
Madam, at least you live up to your
publicity which says that you are honest.
543
00:35:43,074 --> 00:35:47,078
You come.
Come now. Come.
544
00:36:06,068 --> 00:36:09,224
Wait a minute.
Just a minute, Mrs. Meir.
545
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,804
Just a minute.
- It's alright, Avi.
546
00:36:12,805 --> 00:36:15,473
What's alright, we don't know
where they are taking you.
547
00:36:15,474 --> 00:36:17,429
Don't worry, Avi.
548
00:36:33,925 --> 00:36:37,412
Mrs. Kaddar, may be they
let the woman in their hut.
549
00:36:37,413 --> 00:36:40,066
I mean, how do we know
what they may do to her.
550
00:37:11,542 --> 00:37:15,674
Can you believe that this could
happen to the little Golda Mabovich
551
00:37:15,726 --> 00:37:18,485
from Kiev, than Pinsk,
than Milwaukee.
552
00:37:18,537 --> 00:37:20,032
What happen.
553
00:37:20,033 --> 00:37:24,153
I'm now a member of the secret
society off the zoui tribe's women.
554
00:37:24,154 --> 00:37:27,243
I'm the only foreign women
that they ever admitted.
555
00:37:27,244 --> 00:37:30,593
You must take a photograph
for my grandchildren.
556
00:37:31,655 --> 00:37:35,057
O, yes, we take a picture, but...
What went on in that hut.
557
00:37:35,601 --> 00:37:40,233
Ou, it's a secret society,
it was a secret ceremony.
558
00:37:40,285 --> 00:37:42,304
I�ll never tell.
559
00:37:43,694 --> 00:37:45,963
And she never did.
560
00:37:55,231 --> 00:37:57,143
And than do you know what he wanted?
561
00:37:57,144 --> 00:37:59,109
Are we still talking about Idi Amin?
562
00:37:59,110 --> 00:38:01,667
Yes, yes Idi Amin, that meshuga.
563
00:38:02,577 --> 00:38:05,980
When I told him I couldn't
give him 6 fighter planes,
564
00:38:06,032 --> 00:38:09,282
he asked for 10 million pounds sterling.
565
00:38:10,022 --> 00:38:12,137
I couldn't stop laughing.
566
00:38:12,138 --> 00:38:15,287
- Golda...
- And he is threaten to go to the enemy, meaning Lybia.
567
00:38:15,311 --> 00:38:17,345
I should have handled it better.
568
00:38:19,018 --> 00:38:21,035
Golda you never chat?
569
00:38:21,036 --> 00:38:24,146
What?
- Chat, small talk.
570
00:38:24,147 --> 00:38:26,819
Specially at dinner like this, you never do.
571
00:38:26,820 --> 00:38:29,714
You want to chat?
572
00:38:31,345 --> 00:38:35,717
Nu. Chat.
Chat...
573
00:38:37,661 --> 00:38:41,161
You know that Gabi wants a divorce.
574
00:38:41,185 --> 00:38:45,279
I think if she has a chance
to be happy with somebody else,
575
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:48,248
by all mean she should take this chance.
576
00:38:48,359 --> 00:38:50,261
I think we should have the same chance.
577
00:38:53,058 --> 00:38:58,049
Golda, after the divorce
would you marry me?
578
00:39:01,743 --> 00:39:03,886
This is unfair. You said chat.
579
00:39:04,108 --> 00:39:06,077
Is this a subject for chatting?
580
00:39:07,014 --> 00:39:08,348
Compare to Idi Amin.
581
00:39:14,742 --> 00:39:16,962
I don't know what to say.
582
00:39:16,963 --> 00:39:18,637
I must sleep on it.
583
00:39:18,689 --> 00:39:20,591
I must wash my hair and think.
584
00:39:25,654 --> 00:39:28,282
We both have such important work.
585
00:39:28,283 --> 00:39:34,728
Golda, stop thinking about the work.
- But being married would interfere. Isn't it too late for us anyway.
586
00:39:35,045 --> 00:39:37,577
It's now thinking about yourself for a change.
587
00:39:37,908 --> 00:39:40,244
Before it really is too late.
588
00:39:57,704 --> 00:40:01,558
Hello? A, good morning
Lou, how beautiful day, a?
589
00:40:01,766 --> 00:40:04,610
No, it wouldn't be too hot,
it will be just perfect.
590
00:40:04,611 --> 00:40:08,259
Listen, Lou dear. Could you have my
car brought a little early this morning.
591
00:40:08,311 --> 00:40:11,880
I have a breakfast appointment with...
with someone.
592
00:40:11,932 --> 00:40:15,450
7:30, fine.
Thank you.
593
00:41:38,550 --> 00:41:43,179
Mrs. Meir, my name is Kedem, I'm the
manager of the apartment building.
594
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,406
Mr. Ariel introduced us once.
595
00:41:45,430 --> 00:41:47,304
Yes. I know you,
Mr. Kedem.
596
00:41:48,272 --> 00:41:51,108
What-? What happened?
597
00:41:52,062 --> 00:41:54,323
We don't know yet.
598
00:41:54,324 --> 00:41:59,066
Mr. Ariel asked his aide for a
wake-up call, but he didn't answer.
599
00:41:59,067 --> 00:42:04,569
So I went up and open the door,
it look like he must have died
600
00:42:04,889 --> 00:42:07,391
...soon after
he went into the apartment.
601
00:43:10,817 --> 00:43:15,102
After the dead of Ariel, Golda seem
to be trying to bury herself in work.
602
00:43:15,103 --> 00:43:16,913
I thought she may succeed,
603
00:43:16,914 --> 00:43:21,546
but she collapsed a few times
from what was obviously exhaustion.
604
00:43:21,547 --> 00:43:24,301
I finally got her to go for a check-up.
605
00:43:24,325 --> 00:43:30,609
By the same kind of gentle persuasion she used
on her cabinet colleagues. I swore up and down.
606
00:43:30,633 --> 00:43:33,477
If she didn't, I'd quit.
607
00:43:35,245 --> 00:43:38,816
Those lumps don't
mean anything, do they?
608
00:43:43,253 --> 00:43:45,322
They do?
609
00:43:47,992 --> 00:43:49,293
They do.
610
00:43:54,465 --> 00:43:57,468
Nu. Let's hear.
611
00:44:00,082 --> 00:44:04,114
I want you to hear that according to the biopsy
612
00:44:04,575 --> 00:44:08,946
...is a disease of the
lymphatic system called lymphoma.
613
00:44:11,281 --> 00:44:13,751
Malignant lymphoma.
614
00:44:15,285 --> 00:44:18,222
Malignant, I understand.
615
00:44:21,905 --> 00:44:23,108
It is spread?
616
00:44:23,327 --> 00:44:26,296
Eventually,
it penetrates the other systems.
617
00:44:32,824 --> 00:44:35,246
How much longer do I have?
618
00:44:36,126 --> 00:44:39,091
It's not in a rapidly,
on testisizing condition.
619
00:44:39,343 --> 00:44:42,312
I'd say you have a good
few years ahead of you.
620
00:44:46,589 --> 00:44:51,795
Well I'm 66. How long can
I expect to live anyway.
621
00:44:52,289 --> 00:44:55,292
Those few years...
622
00:44:57,292 --> 00:45:02,353
Will they really be good,
will there be suffering?
623
00:45:02,354 --> 00:45:06,638
There is very little pain associated
with this disease, Mrs. Meir.
624
00:45:06,639 --> 00:45:11,121
There will no be real
suffering for most of its cause.
625
00:45:11,122 --> 00:45:12,910
What about my mind?
626
00:45:12,911 --> 00:45:16,779
I don't want to live one minute
after my mind isn't clear.
627
00:45:17,014 --> 00:45:20,017
Your mind won't be affected.
628
00:45:26,892 --> 00:45:30,288
- What must I do?
- Practically nothing.
629
00:45:30,289 --> 00:45:34,929
Your motor and sensory
abilities are not impaired, so...
630
00:45:34,930 --> 00:45:37,868
We would not go for heavy
chemotherapy at this time.
631
00:45:37,869 --> 00:45:40,586
Just a few simple drugs.
632
00:45:40,610 --> 00:45:43,533
Drugs? What drugs?
633
00:45:43,557 --> 00:45:46,808
Listen doctor I'm a person
who can't even take an aspirin.
634
00:45:46,809 --> 00:45:49,467
We'll discuss each one as we come to it.
635
00:45:49,468 --> 00:45:52,358
Will they make my hair fallout?
636
00:45:52,359 --> 00:45:57,198
No, no, absolutely not. I don't care.
637
00:45:57,199 --> 00:46:00,029
I won't take any drug
that make me loose my hair.
638
00:46:00,030 --> 00:46:04,546
Alright, alright if you feel that way,
we are not going with those medications.
639
00:46:04,547 --> 00:46:06,777
And go to different ones.
- Good.
640
00:46:06,778 --> 00:46:11,558
Then I trust you.
On one condition.
641
00:46:12,974 --> 00:46:19,020
If anything about this going to be told
to anyone I will choose who and when.
642
00:46:19,072 --> 00:46:23,594
Otherwise it is strict secret
between you and me.
643
00:46:23,646 --> 00:46:26,149
Is that agreed, Dr. Landau?
644
00:46:26,216 --> 00:46:28,218
Agreed, Mrs. Meir.
645
00:46:30,061 --> 00:46:34,086
Another thing.
- Yes?
646
00:46:36,226 --> 00:46:39,730
Would it hurt you to call me
Golda, like everybody else?
647
00:46:43,935 --> 00:46:45,267
Well?
648
00:46:45,268 --> 00:46:47,306
Well, is what you said.
649
00:46:47,307 --> 00:46:50,736
It's like case of exhaustion.
- That's all?
650
00:46:50,737 --> 00:46:54,376
You are not satisfied
with your own diagnosis?
651
00:46:54,377 --> 00:46:59,686
Alright, is also complications
with the shrapnel in my leg.
652
00:46:59,687 --> 00:47:02,207
What you gonna do about that?
653
00:47:02,208 --> 00:47:05,873
Retire.
- Again, Golda? When?
654
00:47:05,874 --> 00:47:10,711
Why shouldn't I?
- Because you will be bored to death.
655
00:47:10,712 --> 00:47:15,040
Come on, Golda. Can you
see yourself out of politics
656
00:47:15,299 --> 00:47:17,801
...much less retired?
657
00:47:18,579 --> 00:47:20,530
Yes, I can see myself
658
00:47:20,804 --> 00:47:24,308
...with books
that I've been wanting to read.
659
00:47:25,411 --> 00:47:28,174
Go to the theater, to the movie,
660
00:47:28,312 --> 00:47:30,113
I like the movies, you know.
661
00:47:33,613 --> 00:47:36,056
I can see myself with my grandchildren,
662
00:47:36,108 --> 00:47:40,161
spending time I never
could with my children.
663
00:47:40,213 --> 00:47:44,215
Always looking at my watch.
Do I have to go?
664
00:47:44,628 --> 00:47:47,097
The way I'm forever rushing now.
665
00:47:50,494 --> 00:47:55,567
Why not, Lou?
- Because Ben-Gurion is retiring.
666
00:47:55,568 --> 00:47:58,401
That's enough of a loss
for the country for awhile.
667
00:47:58,402 --> 00:48:01,887
They say that Levi Eshkol will
replace him, is that right?
668
00:48:01,888 --> 00:48:03,685
Probably.
669
00:48:03,686 --> 00:48:07,935
What will you do if Levi Eshkol ask
you to stay on, which is certainly will?
670
00:48:07,985 --> 00:48:11,955
How can you desert a brand new
Prime Minister of your own party?
671
00:48:14,987 --> 00:48:19,102
It's less than two years
to the next elections.
672
00:48:19,830 --> 00:48:23,367
I suppose if Eshkol needs
me, I'll stay that long.
673
00:48:24,497 --> 00:48:30,158
But not longer.
Time is precious to me now.
674
00:48:30,159 --> 00:48:32,813
Golda stayed on the two years,
675
00:48:32,837 --> 00:48:37,176
than resigned and was succeeded
as Foreign Minister by Abba Ebban,
676
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:40,036
but her retirement didn't last long.
677
00:48:40,060 --> 00:48:42,749
From commanding positions
from the Golan Heights
678
00:48:42,773 --> 00:48:47,997
Syrian artillery had been shelling
Israeli villages across the border bellow.
679
00:48:48,021 --> 00:48:52,804
One of the worst attack was on the
kibbutz Gadot in the spring of 1967.
680
00:49:01,118 --> 00:49:04,587
Golda, come this way.
This way, please.
681
00:49:12,153 --> 00:49:14,324
20 people died in here.
682
00:49:14,348 --> 00:49:18,234
Plus the people in 5 houses
that were hit by shells.
683
00:49:18,286 --> 00:49:22,121
Plus the kindergarten
building and two nurseries.
684
00:49:22,173 --> 00:49:24,648
Total casualties...
- Eshkol stop.
685
00:49:25,829 --> 00:49:30,133
This ambulance is
ready to go. Send another ambulance.
686
00:49:33,964 --> 00:49:38,581
Why? Why did I have to see this?
I'm retired, I'm a private citizen.
687
00:49:39,805 --> 00:49:43,977
It was bad enough to hear on the radio.
Why did you send car for me?
688
00:49:43,978 --> 00:49:47,536
Because I want you to have clear
picture of what's happening here.
689
00:49:47,537 --> 00:49:49,289
I want you to hear it from Dayan.
690
00:49:49,290 --> 00:49:54,161
Golda, in addition to the threat from
Syria, Jordan is ### with Iraqi forces
691
00:49:54,191 --> 00:49:57,694
...including planes and pilots.
692
00:50:00,202 --> 00:50:05,397
The king of Jordan just place this forces
under the command of Egyptian general.
693
00:50:05,398 --> 00:50:12,263
Egypt now has got troops along our
border as in 1956 and more tanks Golda.
694
00:50:12,264 --> 00:50:14,446
There is a very big difference.
695
00:50:14,498 --> 00:50:19,510
This time there are UN
troops between us as a buffer.
696
00:50:19,511 --> 00:50:23,191
Nasser ordered the UN out Golda.
697
00:50:23,215 --> 00:50:26,940
But they won't leave.
The UN gave us guaranties.
698
00:50:26,941 --> 00:50:31,364
They are leaving, our
observation ### this morning.
699
00:50:31,416 --> 00:50:34,252
The UN is moving out.
700
00:50:36,583 --> 00:50:41,553
As soon as they are gone Nasser will
close the straits and ### Eilat again.
701
00:50:41,554 --> 00:50:42,554
He says so.
702
00:50:42,873 --> 00:50:46,376
If we accept all this, we
might as well cut our throats.
703
00:50:46,377 --> 00:50:50,012
Tell me what I can do?
704
00:50:50,213 --> 00:50:52,049
Come back to work, Golda.
705
00:50:52,050 --> 00:50:57,774
Where? Abba Ebban is running
the Foreign Ministry very well.
706
00:50:57,775 --> 00:51:00,041
I'm not saying run the Foreign Ministry.
707
00:51:00,190 --> 00:51:02,159
I am saying run the party.
708
00:51:04,580 --> 00:51:07,615
We are splitting at the seems
with all our differences.
709
00:51:07,616 --> 00:51:09,160
If you are Secretary General
710
00:51:09,466 --> 00:51:11,968
...you could unite the party
like nobody else.
711
00:51:15,282 --> 00:51:17,713
What you say, Golda?
712
00:51:17,714 --> 00:51:19,648
Of course.
713
00:51:26,383 --> 00:51:29,386
Hello. Kibbutz Revivim.
714
00:51:31,634 --> 00:51:34,674
O, Golda.
What's the situation?
715
00:51:34,675 --> 00:51:36,773
Can you tell us anything?
716
00:51:36,774 --> 00:51:38,699
Shlomo, what can I tell you?
717
00:51:38,700 --> 00:51:46,662
Everybody #### I've never
seen such tension in my life.
718
00:51:48,097 --> 00:51:50,076
Can I speak to my daughter?
719
00:51:50,077 --> 00:51:54,369
Sarah? Sarah is out in the
desert filling sandbags.
720
00:51:54,370 --> 00:51:56,938
But she's OK? She's feeling fine?
721
00:51:56,939 --> 00:51:57,939
She's fine.
722
00:51:57,940 --> 00:52:03,290
And the children, have they enough drills?
Do they know to run to the shelters?
723
00:52:03,291 --> 00:52:06,392
They know, they are well trained.
724
00:52:06,416 --> 00:52:10,034
Listen, Golda. Is the
government considering
725
00:52:10,035 --> 00:52:14,054
that the best thing might
be to sit tight and wait?
726
00:52:14,055 --> 00:52:15,734
Wait for what?
727
00:52:15,735 --> 00:52:18,892
For Russia to send the Arabs more tanks.
728
00:52:18,893 --> 00:52:26,198
Yesterday the Arab radio said, quote:
"The aim is to wipe Israel off the map"
729
00:52:26,199 --> 00:52:29,891
Today they told Dayan that
they will put out his other eye.
730
00:52:29,892 --> 00:52:33,037
Should be wait for them
to come and do it?
731
00:52:33,968 --> 00:52:36,292
We didn't wait.
732
00:52:36,316 --> 00:52:41,086
On the following Monday
morning the Six Day War began.
733
00:52:41,110 --> 00:52:44,829
In the first three hours
Israeli planes knocked out
734
00:52:44,830 --> 00:52:47,475
almost the entire Egyptian air force.
735
00:52:47,476 --> 00:52:53,754
In the first three days Israel took
the Gaza strip and the entire Sinai.
736
00:52:53,755 --> 00:52:59,575
It was the 1956 campaign all over
again, but with differences.
737
00:52:59,576 --> 00:53:05,203
This time Israeli soldiers took the concrete
bunkers of the Syrians on the Golan Heights.
738
00:53:05,204 --> 00:53:08,328
And when king Hussein of
Jordan join the Arab attack
739
00:53:08,380 --> 00:53:12,004
Israel took all of
Jordanian held Palestine,
740
00:53:12,056 --> 00:53:15,629
including the Old City
section of Jerusalem.
741
00:53:15,630 --> 00:53:20,418
After 19 years, Jews were able
to visit their holiest site:
742
00:53:20,730 --> 00:53:22,599
The Western Wall.
743
00:53:24,821 --> 00:53:30,376
We have defensible borders again.
744
00:53:30,377 --> 00:53:34,275
Is there anyone who would dear
tell us to give them up again,
745
00:53:34,276 --> 00:53:37,237
without a real guaranty of peace
746
00:53:37,238 --> 00:53:44,271
and go home and start preparing our
nine and ten year olds for the next war.
747
00:53:46,999 --> 00:53:48,892
No.
748
00:53:49,025 --> 00:53:51,561
No, not this time.
749
00:54:23,271 --> 00:54:25,139
Shalom, Golda.
750
00:54:25,140 --> 00:54:27,710
My name is Label Lazar,
I'm new in this route.
751
00:54:27,762 --> 00:54:30,228
- Welcome to my bus.
- What are you doing?
752
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:33,797
Golda Meir shouldn't
have to carry her groceries.
753
00:54:33,849 --> 00:54:37,314
Golda Meir can carry
groceries like anybody else.
754
00:54:37,315 --> 00:54:40,028
I'm a private citizen again thanks God.
755
00:54:40,210 --> 00:54:44,247
I'm sure He doesn't know it yet.
Wait till He finds out.
756
00:55:10,258 --> 00:55:13,256
You still live in that
house in Baron Hirsch street?
757
00:55:13,308 --> 00:55:15,667
Yes, now I can enjoy it.
758
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:17,300
I'm taking you to your door.
759
00:55:17,463 --> 00:55:20,876
O, no Mr. Lazar.
Please, you are not allowed.
760
00:55:22,779 --> 00:55:26,029
I'm capable of walking
home from the bus stop.
761
00:55:26,081 --> 00:55:29,568
- You are too tired from shopping.
- I'm not tired.
762
00:55:29,758 --> 00:55:32,227
Well I'm tired. From the
talk of letting you walk.
763
00:55:32,262 --> 00:55:34,597
If you're tired,
then drive yourself home.
764
00:55:36,251 --> 00:55:40,423
OK, will the cabinet give me a vote
of confidence to drive Golda home?
765
00:56:05,962 --> 00:56:07,964
Thank you.
766
00:56:13,798 --> 00:56:17,159
- Just a second Mrs. Meir.
- What is this? What's happen?
767
00:56:17,211 --> 00:56:20,875
Mrs. Meir we know how you must feel
but some of us were just at the Knesset
768
00:56:20,927 --> 00:56:24,539
and everybody is saying there is only
one solution: Golda must comeback.
769
00:56:24,591 --> 00:56:26,533
What are you talking about?
770
00:56:26,585 --> 00:56:28,423
- You don't know?
- What?
771
00:56:28,475 --> 00:56:33,130
Levi Eshkol, he had a
heart attack and is dead.
772
00:56:33,182 --> 00:56:35,903
My dear God! Eshkol!
773
00:56:35,927 --> 00:56:38,556
Mrs. Meir, would you been willing
to takeover as Prime Minister?
774
00:56:38,661 --> 00:56:40,997
I don't even know
what you're saying.
775
00:56:42,746 --> 00:56:44,652
Please, leave me alone!
776
00:56:47,886 --> 00:56:49,240
Everybody seems to feel
777
00:56:49,539 --> 00:56:52,208
...you're the only one
who could unite the country.
778
00:56:53,859 --> 00:56:57,341
Eshkol said I was the only
one who can unite the party.
779
00:56:57,714 --> 00:57:00,216
Now it is the whole country.
780
00:57:01,342 --> 00:57:05,687
I came here to live on a kibbutz
781
00:57:05,722 --> 00:57:10,226
...and help to build a homeland
in a plain and simple way.
782
00:57:11,587 --> 00:57:14,739
I don't want to be a Prime Minister.
783
00:57:14,740 --> 00:57:20,192
Golda, if you don't take the job the leading
contenders will practically fight a civil war.
784
00:57:20,255 --> 00:57:24,809
That�s all we need, it's enough the
Arabs insist we are still at war with us.
785
00:57:26,234 --> 00:57:30,915
And who knows if I'll be elected anyway.
I'm a 70 years old grandmother.
786
00:57:31,247 --> 00:57:34,751
No matter.
You're in good health, right?
787
00:57:37,223 --> 00:57:42,502
Well being 70 years is not joke,
but is not sin either.
788
00:57:46,262 --> 00:57:49,766
I did enjoy my retirement.
789
00:57:52,769 --> 00:57:55,772
Yeah. The hell you did.
790
00:58:01,685 --> 00:58:06,031
She was elected by a vote of 70 to nothing.
791
00:58:06,032 --> 00:58:10,990
Some of our friends in other
countries have expressed concern
792
00:58:11,042 --> 00:58:15,214
that Israel by maintaining strong arm forces
793
00:58:15,425 --> 00:58:18,428
...may become militaristic.
794
00:58:18,429 --> 00:58:21,312
I can only answer
795
00:58:21,336 --> 00:58:27,739
that I'm not in favor of a
nice, liberal, antimilitaristic
796
00:58:27,937 --> 00:58:30,707
...and dead Jewish people.
797
00:58:31,722 --> 00:58:36,957
On the other hand the victories that
we have won had never intoxicated us.
798
00:58:37,009 --> 00:58:43,983
They never made us forget our great hope,
our great desire, which is for peace.
799
00:58:44,035 --> 00:58:49,879
The peace that mean good neighborly
relations with the Arab people
800
00:58:49,993 --> 00:58:54,497
...is fundamental
for the Jewish renaissance.
801
00:58:56,004 --> 00:59:00,531
With all my heart I
pledge that this government
802
00:59:00,532 --> 00:59:02,751
will make every effort in it's power
803
00:59:02,803 --> 00:59:07,109
to bring about the
true and enduring peace.
804
00:59:17,090 --> 00:59:21,857
In October, Golda accepted President Nixon's
invitation to visit the United States.
805
00:59:21,881 --> 00:59:28,264
There was ### polished ceremony watched
on television in Israel with great pride.
806
00:59:28,265 --> 00:59:34,063
Madam Prime Minister and our guests
here at the White House today.
807
00:59:34,087 --> 00:59:37,500
The problems of Middle East
are terribly complex
808
00:59:37,524 --> 00:59:40,176
and not susceptible to solution
809
00:59:40,200 --> 00:59:43,063
in one meeting or two
meetings or three meetings
810
00:59:43,087 --> 00:59:47,452
or even more at the level
at we will be talking.
811
00:59:47,453 --> 00:59:53,031
We know that your
neighbors want peace...
812
00:59:53,032 --> 00:59:55,291
How do like my Golda?
813
00:59:56,383 --> 01:00:00,908
His Golda.
I think your father is falling in love.
814
01:00:00,909 --> 01:00:06,035
I would, but ### have to stand in.
815
01:00:07,087 --> 01:00:12,179
In Jerusalem her typical day would
begin in the office and continue at home.
816
01:00:12,180 --> 01:00:17,377
Often she would meet with one group of cabinet
ministers in the kitchen over international problem
817
01:00:17,995 --> 01:00:23,585
and at the same time with other ministers
in the dinning room over a domestic problem.
818
01:00:23,586 --> 01:00:28,659
She was supposed to go to bed by
midnight, it didn't always happen.
819
01:01:18,041 --> 01:01:21,511
Lou. Come and get me.
820
01:01:38,508 --> 01:01:40,939
Did you order white coats?
821
01:01:40,963 --> 01:01:44,892
Yes I ordered the white coats, but
what's the point of all this secrecy?
822
01:01:44,916 --> 01:01:50,559
Supposed it does come out
that your leg is bothering you...
823
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:52,880
The politicians have a way
824
01:01:53,242 --> 01:01:55,745
...of blowing things
out of all proportions.
825
01:02:00,216 --> 01:02:02,251
Do you feel better now?
826
01:02:05,316 --> 01:02:10,125
What we have to do now is to going
to the therapy we already discussed.
827
01:02:10,126 --> 01:02:12,444
I've arranged for it to begin now.
828
01:02:12,445 --> 01:02:17,764
No, Golda. Lets not have
you been transigent about it.
829
01:02:24,228 --> 01:02:28,198
Put it on.
Everybody put coats on.
830
01:02:28,199 --> 01:02:31,078
- May I ask you why Mrs. Meir?
- To look like doctors.
831
01:02:31,079 --> 01:02:35,965
In a hospital four doctors attract less
attention than four ex-paratroopers.
832
01:02:35,989 --> 01:02:39,288
And Lou, please don't worry.
Don't worry.
833
01:02:39,289 --> 01:02:42,143
Either better you stay here.
834
01:02:42,291 --> 01:02:43,726
Put the coats on.
835
01:02:48,056 --> 01:02:49,746
You look very nice, Avi.
836
01:02:49,747 --> 01:02:52,863
Your mother always wanted you
to be a doctor, didn't she?
837
01:03:32,762 --> 01:03:35,835
We'll have treatments twice a week.
838
01:03:36,467 --> 01:03:39,652
I have arranged them for after midnight.
839
01:03:39,653 --> 01:03:41,359
And if there are leaks.
840
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:44,739
We are treating you for
the shrapnel in your legs.
841
01:03:45,288 --> 01:03:49,292
Remember, if it makes my hair
fall out just one hair...
842
01:05:05,321 --> 01:05:07,805
This is a very important man.
843
01:05:07,806 --> 01:05:12,772
He holds the key vote in the
Senate arm services committee.
844
01:05:12,773 --> 01:05:14,721
Friendly or not friendly?
845
01:05:14,722 --> 01:05:18,671
Well, said to be a
friendly type personally.
846
01:05:18,695 --> 01:05:23,185
On Israel however not sympathetic.
Never has been.
847
01:05:27,059 --> 01:05:29,556
Good afternoon, Senator.
- Good afternoon.
848
01:05:29,608 --> 01:05:32,576
I'm Simcha Dinitz, Mrs. Meir's
political secretary.
849
01:05:33,763 --> 01:05:36,265
Won't you come in, please?
Thank you.
850
01:05:38,372 --> 01:05:41,043
Madam Prime Minister.
How do you do?
851
01:05:41,095 --> 01:05:44,875
Not very happy to meet you Senator.
Would you sit down.
852
01:05:45,174 --> 01:05:46,676
Thank you.
853
01:05:48,471 --> 01:05:51,451
Would you care for a coffee?
- Yes. Thank you.
854
01:05:52,067 --> 01:05:55,105
And a little something to go with it?
Are you hungry?
855
01:05:55,184 --> 01:05:58,688
No, coffee's fine,
thank you.
856
01:06:30,700 --> 01:06:34,381
What she's doing out there?
- Making coffee.
857
01:06:34,382 --> 01:06:36,288
You mean herself?
858
01:06:36,292 --> 01:06:40,296
And if I know her,
a little something to go with it.
859
01:06:47,861 --> 01:06:50,176
Excuse me.
860
01:06:52,483 --> 01:06:54,376
Madam Prime Minister.
861
01:06:54,377 --> 01:06:56,385
It looks good.
- My own recipe.
862
01:06:58,796 --> 01:07:00,411
It's delicious.
863
01:07:00,463 --> 01:07:05,039
You seen, nobody is ever hungry.
When I serve honey-cake they don't refuse.
864
01:07:05,521 --> 01:07:07,523
There. Sit down.
865
01:07:10,461 --> 01:07:13,233
Try some of my apricot jam with it.
866
01:07:13,963 --> 01:07:17,967
There, I'll just bring this out
to the boys and I'll be right back.
867
01:07:25,579 --> 01:07:29,450
If you don't like the menu it's
your own fault. I #### to go home.
868
01:07:29,451 --> 01:07:31,703
Golda, you know we have to be with you.
869
01:07:31,727 --> 01:07:33,735
But I don't need anybody today.
870
01:07:33,759 --> 01:07:35,598
I wouldn't be going out anymore.
871
01:07:35,669 --> 01:07:37,581
But Golda, we have our orders.
872
01:07:37,605 --> 01:07:39,963
Than I wouldn't tell
anybody. I promise.
873
01:07:54,487 --> 01:07:59,731
I don't know #### anything if the spot ####.
874
01:07:59,755 --> 01:08:01,852
Can I help you with this dishes?
875
01:08:01,876 --> 01:08:06,793
You can help me Senator,
but not with the dishes.
876
01:08:08,242 --> 01:08:13,630
Well, in addition to the Starfighter I think
we can get congressional approval to sell this...
877
01:08:13,631 --> 01:08:16,452
O, Senator, the Starfighter
is not the plane we need.
878
01:08:16,476 --> 01:08:18,170
What's wrong with it?
879
01:08:18,171 --> 01:08:23,730
The Egyptians are flying Russian Mig-21's
with the speed 1380 miles per hour
880
01:08:24,033 --> 01:08:26,535
...comparable
to the Starfighter.
881
01:08:26,536 --> 01:08:30,652
And it has a range of 680 miles.
882
01:08:30,676 --> 01:08:33,744
Better than twice the Starfighters.
883
01:08:33,750 --> 01:08:37,219
Also the Starfighter
is non stable airplane.
884
01:08:37,243 --> 01:08:40,213
With unacceptable record of crashes.
885
01:08:40,237 --> 01:08:42,543
We can't afford to
loose pilots in combat.
886
01:08:42,544 --> 01:08:43,885
Let alone in accidents.
887
01:08:44,053 --> 01:08:48,424
No, the plane we
need is the Phantom.
888
01:08:52,294 --> 01:08:53,596
Let's talk tanks.
889
01:08:55,502 --> 01:08:58,970
The Egyptians have the
Russian T-62, an excellent tank.
890
01:08:59,518 --> 01:09:03,764
it's faster than your M551
Sheridan and it has heavier armor.
891
01:09:03,765 --> 01:09:06,352
But Sheridan has a heavier cannon.
892
01:09:06,353 --> 01:09:12,664
Yes, but the Sheridan is too light
for the recoil such a heavy cannon.
893
01:09:12,665 --> 01:09:19,211
It shakes the laser rangefinder out of alignment.
Also the Sheridan has a blind spot
894
01:09:19,455 --> 01:09:22,825
...at a range of a
thousand to 1200 yards.
895
01:09:24,260 --> 01:09:26,262
Senator, please...
896
01:09:27,763 --> 01:09:31,167
...sell us the M60.
897
01:09:33,602 --> 01:09:37,506
My dear lady,
how do you keep up on all this?
898
01:09:38,679 --> 01:09:47,748
O, Senator. Don't you think I'd rather be
up on school, housing, farming, industry.
899
01:09:48,017 --> 01:09:51,349
But we have no choice.
900
01:09:56,220 --> 01:09:58,080
After the Six-Day War
901
01:09:58,104 --> 01:10:01,405
we pleaded with the
Arabs to negotiate peace,
902
01:10:01,429 --> 01:10:04,391
but they came back with
the famous three no.
903
01:10:04,392 --> 01:10:07,141
No negotiation.
904
01:10:07,165 --> 01:10:09,321
No recognition of Israel.
905
01:10:09,638 --> 01:10:11,640
No peace.
906
01:10:13,847 --> 01:10:18,308
And the situation of the PLO is
that Israel must be destroyed.
907
01:10:18,309 --> 01:10:20,612
Even within it's prewar boundaries.
908
01:10:20,636 --> 01:10:24,235
I don't think the United States
will ever let happen.
909
01:10:28,203 --> 01:10:31,094
You remind me of your
wonderful president Kennedy.
910
01:10:31,118 --> 01:10:33,163
May he rest in peace.
911
01:10:33,187 --> 01:10:37,420
He said to me: Mrs. Meir
nothing will happen to Israel.
912
01:10:37,421 --> 01:10:39,106
We are committed to you.
913
01:10:39,158 --> 01:10:44,755
And I said to him: Mr. President,
I believe you 100%.
914
01:10:44,818 --> 01:10:47,437
I just want to make sure,
915
01:10:47,438 --> 01:10:53,514
that by the time you honor your
commitment, we are still there.
916
01:11:01,190 --> 01:11:04,526
Alright. What about the
recipe for your honey cake?
917
01:11:29,238 --> 01:11:33,361
The Egyptian build-up is along
the full length of the Suez Canal,
918
01:11:33,413 --> 01:11:38,168
it amounts to 100,000 men
and over 2000 tanks.
919
01:11:38,220 --> 01:11:40,514
What do we have?
920
01:11:41,430 --> 01:11:43,932
Without calling up
the Reserves...
921
01:11:46,435 --> 01:11:48,437
...8,500 men...
922
01:11:49,438 --> 01:11:52,941
...276 tanks.
923
01:11:55,342 --> 01:12:00,066
The Syrians have 44,000 men
against our 5,000.
924
01:12:00,449 --> 01:12:05,454
Seventeen-hundred tanks
against our 176.
925
01:12:06,455 --> 01:12:07,790
What does intelligence say?
926
01:12:09,307 --> 01:12:12,247
We don't see the Syrians attacking us.
927
01:12:12,628 --> 01:12:15,531
We think they somehow
got the idea we may attack them.
928
01:12:18,052 --> 01:12:20,616
And the Egyptian build-up?
929
01:12:20,617 --> 01:12:25,183
If Nasser was still alive would be concerned.
But Anuar Sadat is cooler head.
930
01:12:25,574 --> 01:12:27,910
Sadat simply has his army
on maneuvers.
931
01:12:27,911 --> 01:12:32,109
And nobody thinks we
should call-up the Reserves?
932
01:12:36,952 --> 01:12:39,922
Hurry up. We'll miss our unit.
933
01:12:42,044 --> 01:12:46,827
Is this because nobody wants to upset
the country three days before Yom Kippur?
934
01:12:46,879 --> 01:12:50,107
It's not a matter of Yom Kippur, Golda.
935
01:12:50,159 --> 01:12:56,694
Our best intelligence, including
input from the Americans is...
936
01:12:56,718 --> 01:12:59,123
There will be no war.
937
01:13:06,371 --> 01:13:08,824
What do I know about it anyway?
938
01:13:08,848 --> 01:13:11,455
My instincts tell me to mobilize,
939
01:13:11,479 --> 01:13:15,984
but the facts are that
it would cost millions
940
01:13:16,036 --> 01:13:20,879
and just cripple the industry,
business, essential services
941
01:13:20,880 --> 01:13:23,620
so hard if I follow my instinct.
942
01:13:23,621 --> 01:13:27,991
Especially when the best military
minds in the country advice against it.
943
01:13:27,992 --> 01:13:30,734
O, Lou, I must be getting old.
944
01:13:30,758 --> 01:13:34,932
Advice never stop me before but
it wasn't only the General Staff,
945
01:13:34,933 --> 01:13:36,588
we had a cabinet meeting.
946
01:13:36,612 --> 01:13:40,482
And the vote
was against mobilization, unanimously.
947
01:13:41,524 --> 01:13:44,195
So, thoughts, there you are.
948
01:13:46,811 --> 01:13:49,118
Excuse me, this just came.
949
01:13:49,142 --> 01:13:54,999
O, thank you, Avi. Go to your family,
Yom Kippur will be soon here.
950
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:56,977
- Shalom, Avi.
- Shalom.
951
01:13:58,175 --> 01:14:00,740
Another intelligence report.
952
01:14:08,328 --> 01:14:10,874
Soviet transport planes are in Syria
953
01:14:11,280 --> 01:14:15,284
...evacuating the families
of Russian military advisors.
954
01:14:17,786 --> 01:14:22,291
This does not alter
our current assessment of the situation. "
955
01:14:32,854 --> 01:14:37,789
On the eve of Yom Kippur, the
most sacred of all Jewish holydays,
956
01:14:37,841 --> 01:14:42,725
many Jews traditionally have a
family dinner before the fast begins.
957
01:14:42,777 --> 01:14:47,133
This year I just
couldn�t sit on the table.
958
01:14:47,217 --> 01:14:50,454
I left earlier and went to bed.
959
01:14:56,868 --> 01:15:01,238
- Yes?
- Golda, this is Talmy. army intelligence.
960
01:15:01,239 --> 01:15:06,451
We have reliable information that Syria
and Egypt will both attack this afternoon.
961
01:15:06,452 --> 01:15:11,627
They have a mass troops and aircraft on
the Golan Heights and near the Suez Canal.
962
01:15:11,628 --> 01:15:13,788
Have you informed Dayan and Dado?
963
01:15:13,840 --> 01:15:19,214
Yes. They made a decision to call-up Reserves
units to the defense line immediately.
964
01:15:19,215 --> 01:15:23,842
Every men in the country between
the ages of 18 and 55 will be called.
965
01:15:23,866 --> 01:15:26,904
They said they need your
approval for the next phases.
966
01:15:26,905 --> 01:15:30,051
How soon can they meet
you in your office?
967
01:15:30,052 --> 01:15:31,351
How soon?
968
01:15:31,352 --> 01:15:36,894
For the moment all I could think
was: I will never forgive myself.
969
01:15:36,918 --> 01:15:41,834
I should have overruled the Cabinet and
everybody else and mobilized yesterday.
970
01:15:41,835 --> 01:15:45,232
But it was a little late for that.
971
01:15:45,233 --> 01:15:47,167
I'm on my way.
972
01:15:56,882 --> 01:16:00,915
First decision concerns calling-up
additionally units of this time.
973
01:16:01,275 --> 01:16:03,339
Call them up.
974
01:16:03,363 --> 01:16:07,822
On the next point, the Defense
Minister and I are not in agreement.
975
01:16:07,846 --> 01:16:14,240
Golda, our Air Force can strike an
noon if you give me the green light.
976
01:16:14,264 --> 01:16:17,666
That would be a pre-emptive strike.
977
01:16:17,690 --> 01:16:21,368
I'm against it because will
get us label "The aggressors".
978
01:16:22,919 --> 01:16:27,191
Three brilliant generals
and I have to decide.
979
01:16:27,192 --> 01:16:33,189
Yes, because this is not a military
issue it is strictly political.
980
01:16:33,221 --> 01:16:37,826
Dado, I know that your approach
can save lives up front.
981
01:16:37,827 --> 01:16:44,225
But we don't know about the future.
Suppose it turns after we need help.
982
01:16:44,666 --> 01:16:49,171
If we strike first, we'll get nothing
from anyone.
983
01:16:50,639 --> 01:16:53,141
No pre-emptive strike.
984
01:16:54,275 --> 01:16:56,079
That's it.
985
01:17:01,129 --> 01:17:03,499
At 2:00 pm on Yom Kippur day
986
01:17:03,652 --> 01:17:07,723
...the Syrians shelled Israeli
positions and then attacked.
987
01:17:14,062 --> 01:17:18,533
In the south, the Egyptians crossed
the Suez Canal along its entire length.
988
01:17:28,227 --> 01:17:31,983
The first three days of fighting
threaten disaster for Israel.
989
01:17:32,007 --> 01:17:37,242
The Egyptian army overran Israel's
strongpoints on the renown "Bar-Lev Line".
990
01:17:37,243 --> 01:17:41,083
Their armored columns race
toward the critical desert passes.
991
01:17:41,121 --> 01:17:43,922
In the North the
situation was even worse.
992
01:17:43,946 --> 01:17:46,870
The Syrian army broke
through on the Golan Heights
993
01:17:46,989 --> 01:17:49,373
heading for the farm
settlements below it.
994
01:18:01,943 --> 01:18:03,512
Hello?
995
01:18:04,878 --> 01:18:06,439
Yes, Golda?
996
01:18:06,548 --> 01:18:08,917
Well? Has the airlift started?
997
01:18:10,253 --> 01:18:11,655
Not yet.
998
01:18:11,679 --> 01:18:13,438
What do you mean not yet?
999
01:18:13,462 --> 01:18:16,210
You should have seen our
kids going off to the front
1000
01:18:16,234 --> 01:18:19,822
not knowing they may have no air ####.
- I'm aware of that.
1001
01:18:19,846 --> 01:18:26,703
O, Simcha, you can't imagine how
actually frightening the situation is.
1002
01:18:26,727 --> 01:18:31,182
We have already lost almost
half of our fighter planes.
1003
01:18:31,183 --> 01:18:34,028
No, not in air battle but to missiles.
1004
01:18:34,029 --> 01:18:37,334
Russian missiles against
us on both fronts.
1005
01:18:37,335 --> 01:18:40,943
And our tank losses are just as bad.
1006
01:18:40,944 --> 01:18:46,084
Golda, the Defense Department does not
want to send us arms in US cargo planes.
1007
01:18:46,085 --> 01:18:48,529
I'm shopping around for other planes...
1008
01:18:48,530 --> 01:18:50,643
It's too late for shopping.
1009
01:18:50,644 --> 01:18:53,761
President Nixon promised
to help us if we need help.
1010
01:18:53,762 --> 01:18:57,336
Tell him we do.
And has to be today.
1011
01:18:57,337 --> 01:19:01,960
Tomorrow we may be completely overrun.
1012
01:19:01,961 --> 01:19:06,794
Call Kissinger and tell him.
Call the Senator who liked my cake.
1013
01:19:06,795 --> 01:19:08,351
Call them right now.
1014
01:19:08,352 --> 01:19:11,015
Golda, do you know what time it is here?
1015
01:19:11,016 --> 01:19:13,812
I'm not sleeping God knows,
but they are.
1016
01:19:14,216 --> 01:19:17,185
Tell Kissinger he can sleep
when the war is over.
1017
01:19:19,339 --> 01:19:21,975
Richard Nixon kept his promise.
1018
01:19:21,999 --> 01:19:24,627
He personally ordered C-5 Galaxy�s
1019
01:19:24,628 --> 01:19:28,570
to deliver tanks, rockets,
and medical supplies.
1020
01:19:29,390 --> 01:19:32,501
The fighter planes
denied permission to land
1021
01:19:32,502 --> 01:19:37,662
in any of the European democracies
for refueling were refueled in flight.
1022
01:19:37,714 --> 01:19:42,351
And on the 9-th day of the war
the airlift reached Israel.
1023
01:19:50,903 --> 01:19:55,194
Our losses were devastating,
but rearmed by the airlift
1024
01:19:55,390 --> 01:19:57,926
...Israeli forces
took the offensive.
1025
01:20:14,172 --> 01:20:16,641
I remember thinking:
1026
01:20:16,665 --> 01:20:19,447
Thank God we rejected the
temptation to strike first.
1027
01:20:29,053 --> 01:20:33,496
Yes? Dado, were are you?
1028
01:20:33,554 --> 01:20:36,150
The Canal, with Shaike's division.
1029
01:20:36,174 --> 01:20:37,843
O, don't be such a hero.
1030
01:20:37,844 --> 01:20:42,016
You're the Chief of Staff, you
supposed to be in the map-room.
1031
01:20:42,040 --> 01:20:45,365
Dayan and I are just looked the thing over.
1032
01:20:45,366 --> 01:20:48,756
Listen, Golda...
Can you hear me?
1033
01:20:48,757 --> 01:20:50,001
Yes?
1034
01:20:50,002 --> 01:20:55,721
We're back to be ourselves,
and they're back to be themselves.
1035
01:20:55,773 --> 01:21:00,071
And Golda...
It will be alright.
1036
01:21:00,072 --> 01:21:04,532
On this tenth day of
the war, I can tell you
1037
01:21:04,533 --> 01:21:08,200
we have a task force across the Canal
1038
01:21:08,597 --> 01:21:12,100
...operating
in the Egyptian territory.
1039
01:21:14,321 --> 01:21:17,360
I want to express our deep gratitude
1040
01:21:17,361 --> 01:21:21,918
to the President and the
people of the United States.
1041
01:21:22,856 --> 01:21:28,213
By the 16-th day Israel had
retaken virtually all of the Sinai.
1042
01:21:28,214 --> 01:21:31,093
Have the large area across the Canal
1043
01:21:31,094 --> 01:21:35,412
and have the Egyptian third
army completely encircled.
1044
01:21:35,413 --> 01:21:39,367
In the North, Israel had
regained all of the Golan
1045
01:21:39,368 --> 01:21:43,088
and moved into Syria
within 25 miles of Damascus.
1046
01:21:43,089 --> 01:21:48,144
At this point the Soviet Union
began pressing for a ceasefire.
1047
01:21:48,145 --> 01:21:52,562
And at kilometer 101
in the Sinai desert,
1048
01:21:52,563 --> 01:21:57,925
at a meeting arranged by
UN an armistice was signed.
1049
01:21:59,224 --> 01:22:04,997
But in spite of the military victory
the mood in Israel was bleed and bitter.
1050
01:22:04,998 --> 01:22:10,781
Battle casualties were the heaviest
since the 1948 war of independence.
1051
01:22:10,926 --> 01:22:13,295
A kind of national trauma
set in.
1052
01:22:22,844 --> 01:22:24,752
Golda!
1053
01:22:26,158 --> 01:22:30,503
When you called him up you were in such
a hurry, you forgot the doctors.
1054
01:22:30,504 --> 01:22:33,552
So if he is dead,
how will I ever know?
1055
01:22:33,707 --> 01:22:39,410
My son took it's tags, why don't I know.
If he is dead where is his body?
1056
01:22:39,411 --> 01:22:45,376
If is not dead, if is a prisoner,
why can't anybody tell me?
1057
01:22:45,377 --> 01:22:50,610
We are getting a POW list from the
Egyptians very soon, that's the agreement.
1058
01:22:50,611 --> 01:22:54,157
From the Syrians I don't know,
they won't agree even to that.
1059
01:22:54,158 --> 01:22:59,572
Everybody of us was in the fighting.
We saw our friends dying next to us.
1060
01:22:59,596 --> 01:23:04,752
We have the right to ask, just
when we have the enemy on the run,
1061
01:23:04,753 --> 01:23:07,854
why did you agree to that ceasefire?
1062
01:23:07,855 --> 01:23:12,624
I wanted to hold out for the
true negotiated peace this time.
1063
01:23:12,625 --> 01:23:15,770
I have spend my life pleading for peace.
1064
01:23:15,771 --> 01:23:20,639
We are very small country with
a great and powerful friend.
1065
01:23:20,640 --> 01:23:24,181
Sometimes we have to
give in to that friend.
1066
01:23:24,182 --> 01:23:26,306
Even when we don't want to.
1067
01:23:26,307 --> 01:23:30,682
We blame you for the war. Because
the country wasn't prepared.
1068
01:23:30,683 --> 01:23:33,113
You should resign and so should he.
1069
01:23:33,114 --> 01:23:39,156
Defense Minister Dayan offered to resign
three times, I insisted that he stay.
1070
01:23:39,180 --> 01:23:41,249
Murderers.
1071
01:23:42,935 --> 01:23:44,808
Murderers, both of you.
1072
01:23:45,253 --> 01:23:47,922
Do you want to know
what I tell my children?
1073
01:23:50,525 --> 01:23:52,327
I tell them
you killed their father.
1074
01:24:09,521 --> 01:24:12,396
Do they think we don't care?
1075
01:24:12,397 --> 01:24:16,915
There is no way to fight
a war without losses.
1076
01:24:17,318 --> 01:24:20,822
Especially when the other
side suddenly attacks.
1077
01:24:22,419 --> 01:24:25,544
The American had Purl Harbor,
1078
01:24:25,545 --> 01:24:30,815
the French the Maginot Line,
the British Dunkirk.
1079
01:24:30,816 --> 01:24:34,399
Those people seemed to understand.
1080
01:24:34,836 --> 01:24:37,839
Those people
are not like our people.
1081
01:24:39,961 --> 01:24:41,475
Do you think Dayan
1082
01:24:41,976 --> 01:24:44,935
...that's why God chose us?
1083
01:24:50,697 --> 01:24:55,851
I've told my key people I'll retire.
I've better mean it this time.
1084
01:24:55,852 --> 01:24:57,367
Isn't it right time?
1085
01:24:57,692 --> 01:25:00,695
Yes, yes,
I suppose so.
1086
01:25:02,730 --> 01:25:04,732
Well.
1087
01:25:04,733 --> 01:25:07,479
I'm ready.
1088
01:25:07,480 --> 01:25:10,873
I've done about everything I hoped to.
1089
01:25:10,874 --> 01:25:14,516
And got yourself voted woman
most admired in America.
1090
01:25:14,517 --> 01:25:17,181
You couldn't planed on that.
1091
01:25:17,745 --> 01:25:20,748
"Woman Most Admired"?
1092
01:25:21,749 --> 01:25:24,252
Would Morris have voted for me?
1093
01:25:26,028 --> 01:25:29,515
You know if I have life to live over
1094
01:25:29,757 --> 01:25:33,261
...maybe there is
something I would change.
1095
01:25:34,709 --> 01:25:37,178
I think I would have
stayed in the kibbutz.
1096
01:25:37,179 --> 01:25:40,736
Yes, but what would the
country have done without you?
1097
01:25:40,836 --> 01:25:44,573
No, believe me, Israel
would have through anyway.
1098
01:25:44,574 --> 01:25:48,284
Than I would have been
more in peace with myself.
1099
01:25:48,308 --> 01:25:50,278
My whole life.
1100
01:26:07,008 --> 01:26:10,679
Why did you decided not to
be Prime Minister anymore.
1101
01:26:11,466 --> 01:26:14,969
Well, there was
a number of reasons.
1102
01:26:16,903 --> 01:26:18,884
One of them was:
1103
01:26:18,908 --> 01:26:23,616
I was beginning to imagine that
people around me were whispering
1104
01:26:23,640 --> 01:26:27,446
for God sake when is this old
woman will gonna make her mind.
1105
01:26:27,447 --> 01:26:29,586
That's time for her to leave.
1106
01:26:31,596 --> 01:26:35,492
Or maybe it wasn't all imagination.
1107
01:26:35,493 --> 01:26:39,007
You never want it to be
Prime Minister, did you?
1108
01:26:39,008 --> 01:26:44,875
Right, I become one, just
like my milkman become
1109
01:26:44,899 --> 01:26:49,011
a commander of a machinegun
squad in the 1973 year.
1110
01:26:49,012 --> 01:26:53,421
Believe me, he didn't want that job,
1111
01:26:53,422 --> 01:26:56,727
but somebody had to do it.
1112
01:26:56,728 --> 01:26:58,199
You think there will ever be peace
1113
01:26:58,413 --> 01:27:00,815
...between Israel
and those other countries?
1114
01:27:01,182 --> 01:27:02,750
Yes.
1115
01:27:02,751 --> 01:27:05,931
I believe.
1116
01:27:05,955 --> 01:27:09,855
We must believe, that
there will be peace someday.
1117
01:27:09,991 --> 01:27:11,559
When will that be?
1118
01:27:12,805 --> 01:27:15,331
When? I can tell you.
1119
01:27:15,332 --> 01:27:18,517
When the Arabs love their children
1120
01:27:18,566 --> 01:27:20,568
...more than they hate us.
1121
01:27:22,070 --> 01:27:25,073
That's when peace will come.
1122
01:27:38,830 --> 01:27:40,207
Well?
1123
01:27:40,231 --> 01:27:43,516
The call was from Denis, they want you to
cancel the rest of your trip and come home.
1124
01:27:44,011 --> 01:27:45,512
- Who's they?
- Everybody.
1125
01:27:45,513 --> 01:27:46,740
What's everybody.
1126
01:27:46,794 --> 01:27:49,297
How about your friends and your enemies?
1127
01:27:56,317 --> 01:27:59,452
Golda, Sadat is coming to Jerusalem.
1128
01:27:59,476 --> 01:28:03,768
Begin is going to meet him at the airport
and bring him to address the Knesset.
1129
01:28:03,769 --> 01:28:06,084
Sadat is actually coming?
1130
01:28:06,147 --> 01:28:08,149
Not just talking about it?
1131
01:28:10,076 --> 01:28:14,395
I'm not in the government.
Now what do they need me for?
1132
01:28:14,396 --> 01:28:17,433
Need you at history, you are part of it.
1133
01:28:17,533 --> 01:28:20,276
I'm ancient history.
1134
01:28:20,277 --> 01:28:22,964
But if Sadat really wants to talk peace
1135
01:28:23,331 --> 01:28:26,834
...I'd like to see somebody try
to keep me away.
1136
01:29:11,307 --> 01:29:14,823
I have chosen this difficult road,
1137
01:29:14,923 --> 01:29:17,875
which is considered by many
1138
01:29:17,899 --> 01:29:22,356
and in the opinion of many
the most difficult road.
1139
01:29:23,820 --> 01:29:29,650
I have chosen to come
to you with an open heart
1140
01:29:29,651 --> 01:29:32,024
and with open mind.
1141
01:29:33,124 --> 01:29:38,961
I have chosen to present
to you and in your home
1142
01:29:38,962 --> 01:29:41,256
the realities
1143
01:29:41,509 --> 01:29:45,513
...devoid of any scheme or whim.
1144
01:29:47,308 --> 01:29:53,751
Not to maneuver or win a round
but for us to win together.
1145
01:29:54,831 --> 01:29:59,769
The most dangerous of rounds
and battles in modern history.
1146
01:30:01,048 --> 01:30:06,720
The battle of permanent
peace based on justice.
1147
01:30:06,721 --> 01:30:12,723
This wonderful step, the president
Sadat had taken by coming here
1148
01:30:13,776 --> 01:30:18,179
proves that speaking to each
other through middle persons
1149
01:30:18,679 --> 01:30:22,049
...is not the same
as meeting face-to-face.
1150
01:30:24,367 --> 01:30:28,083
On our differences about the Palestinians
1151
01:30:28,084 --> 01:30:33,123
I believe there is a solution
in a peace treaty with Jordan,
1152
01:30:33,223 --> 01:30:35,288
that will be good for them
1153
01:30:35,388 --> 01:30:37,732
...and safe for us.
1154
01:30:40,676 --> 01:30:42,559
And now
1155
01:30:42,770 --> 01:30:46,774
...I want to say something
to President Sadat:
1156
01:30:48,015 --> 01:30:49,612
As an Old Lady...
1157
01:30:54,308 --> 01:30:57,239
I won't say this.
1158
01:30:57,263 --> 01:31:00,190
You always called me the Old Lady.
1159
01:31:02,340 --> 01:31:04,146
As an Old Lady...
1160
01:31:04,147 --> 01:31:08,483
my great hope is to live
to see the day of peace
1161
01:31:08,484 --> 01:31:09,484
between you and us.
1162
01:31:12,127 --> 01:31:15,407
Between all our neighbors and us.
1163
01:31:15,408 --> 01:31:19,744
And as a grandmother to a grandfather
1164
01:31:22,685 --> 01:31:26,118
hold on, you are just a new grandfather.
1165
01:31:26,848 --> 01:31:30,284
...I have a little gift
for your granddaughter.
1166
01:31:38,960 --> 01:31:40,995
Let us...
1167
01:31:41,963 --> 01:31:43,498
...hope...
1168
01:31:45,476 --> 01:31:50,291
that through our genuine efforts
1169
01:31:50,505 --> 01:31:52,507
...in Geneva...
1170
01:31:54,592 --> 01:31:58,783
we can bridge the rift
1171
01:31:59,013 --> 01:32:02,517
...that has taken place
between us.
1172
01:32:03,896 --> 01:32:10,860
And to establish peace once and for all
1173
01:32:10,861 --> 01:32:16,536
on the two main points
that I have mention to you now:
1174
01:32:16,764 --> 01:32:21,854
Security and... no more war.
1175
01:32:21,878 --> 01:32:24,816
Whatever happens between us,
1176
01:32:24,817 --> 01:32:30,166
we must seat and solve
through peaceful negotiations.
1177
01:32:37,406 --> 01:32:43,124
Again, I must not end my words without
1178
01:32:43,724 --> 01:32:45,493
...thanking Mrs. Meir...
1179
01:32:46,761 --> 01:32:48,596
...for this kind gesture.
1180
01:32:51,887 --> 01:32:55,360
Let us hope, that the peace process
1181
01:32:55,361 --> 01:32:59,242
that we have started Mrs. Meir and me
1182
01:32:59,407 --> 01:33:02,877
...will continue,
and flourish...
1183
01:33:05,705 --> 01:33:10,819
and will... give satisfaction
1184
01:33:10,843 --> 01:33:15,852
to every girl, every women, every man,
1185
01:33:15,876 --> 01:33:20,433
in Israel and the Arab world.
1186
01:33:20,457 --> 01:33:22,901
Thank you very much.
1187
01:33:22,925 --> 01:33:24,231
Excellent. Excellent.
1188
01:33:37,268 --> 01:33:40,815
Ladies and gentlemen,
the honorable Ahmud im Hamdi
1189
01:33:40,915 --> 01:33:43,918
...Deputy Foreign Minister
of Egypt.
1190
01:33:55,425 --> 01:34:01,328
President Katzir, president Sadat,
Prime Minister Mr. Begin
1191
01:34:01,802 --> 01:34:05,806
...distinguished guests,
ladies and gentlemen:
1192
01:34:05,807 --> 01:34:12,133
How exciting to be here in
the holy city of Jerusalem
1193
01:34:12,246 --> 01:34:16,250
...at such an important time
in history.
1194
01:34:20,418 --> 01:34:23,478
Ladies and gentlemen, I now
have the honor to present to you
1195
01:34:23,624 --> 01:34:28,129
...the President of Israel:
His Excellency Ephraim Katzir.
1196
01:34:29,130 --> 01:34:30,531
Thank you.
1197
01:34:33,565 --> 01:34:35,174
By the time they get to you,
1198
01:34:35,175 --> 01:34:37,990
are you going to remember
what you wanted to say?
1199
01:34:37,991 --> 01:34:41,125
Did you ever know me when
I didn't something to say?
1200
01:34:41,442 --> 01:34:44,979
... as we stand on the
threshold of peace, we pray for...
1201
01:34:51,299 --> 01:34:56,778
And now it is my privilege to
present a truly great lady of our time
1202
01:34:56,779 --> 01:34:59,223
or in the other time.
1203
01:34:59,247 --> 01:35:02,145
She has been called
"The mother of Israel",
1204
01:35:02,146 --> 01:35:03,858
"The Earth mother of her people"
1205
01:35:03,859 --> 01:35:07,722
but mostly she has called "Golda".
1206
01:35:08,736 --> 01:35:11,205
Ladies and gentlemen,
Golda Meir.
1207
01:35:32,589 --> 01:35:37,532
Well, if I'm supposed to be
"The mother of Israel",
1208
01:35:37,533 --> 01:35:41,505
"Earth mother" or
whatever kind of mother
1209
01:35:41,602 --> 01:35:45,673
...I have the responsibility
to be a good one.
1210
01:35:48,130 --> 01:35:51,299
And what a good mother
would say to you now is:
1211
01:35:52,882 --> 01:35:58,007
It's late, everybody is tired , go home.
1212
01:36:08,296 --> 01:36:13,467
- Mr. President, I say good night.
- Good night, dear lady.
1213
01:36:14,201 --> 01:36:16,504
I hope we see each other
again soon.
1214
01:36:17,772 --> 01:36:19,106
I'm glad you came.
1215
01:36:20,407 --> 01:36:22,409
I am glad too.
1216
01:36:23,826 --> 01:36:25,527
Very glad I came.
1217
01:36:25,528 --> 01:36:28,096
So let me ask:
1218
01:36:28,097 --> 01:36:30,365
What took you so long?
1219
01:36:36,308 --> 01:36:40,879
A lot of people said and
wrote a lot of thing about her
1220
01:36:40,880 --> 01:36:47,701
such as: The miracle of Golda, was that
she embodied the spirit of so many people,
1221
01:36:47,801 --> 01:36:54,477
the hopes, fears, ideals and
stubbornness of Jews everywhere.
1222
01:36:54,478 --> 01:36:57,552
But as usual, Golda said it better.
1223
01:36:57,553 --> 01:36:59,899
Why am I known?
1224
01:36:59,923 --> 01:37:04,068
Because of my wisdom,
my great achievements, no.
1225
01:37:04,069 --> 01:37:08,559
I'm known because of the time of
the struggle of the Jewish people
1226
01:37:08,560 --> 01:37:12,688
I was one of the #### that made
it possible to have what we have,
1227
01:37:12,760 --> 01:37:16,764
...what we've been able to
defend by the skin of our teeth.
1228
01:37:20,520 --> 01:37:24,071
I did what I thought was
right and that's that.
1229
01:37:24,072 --> 01:37:27,180
And after me someone else will come.
1230
01:37:27,204 --> 01:37:29,310
And I hope they do better.
1231
01:37:32,813 --> 01:37:35,816
Shalom, Golda.
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