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January 05, 1979 - Image 6

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1979-01-05

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6 Friday, January 5, 1919

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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than Golda, who is the
dearest present which
American Jewry has pre-
sented us."

* * *

Extracts from Golda
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without hating those
haps physical and emo-
tional stamina are mostly a who want to destroy them
matter of habit. People, and without abandoning
especially my own family, their own vision of peace. To
have charged me for almost have learned this is a great
as long as I can remember art, the prescription• for
with driving myself too which is not written down
hard, whatever that really anywhere. It is part of our
means . . . But during those way of life in Israel.
"And now I have only this
war years I learned a very
important lesson: one can desire left: never to lose the
always push oneself a little feeling that it is I who am
bit beyond what only yes- indebted for what has been
terday was thought to be the given to me from the tigft
that I first learned abgl.
absolute limit . ."
On the United Nations Zionism in a small room in
partition plan (1947) — Russia all the way through
"The-state of Israel! My eyes to my half-century here,
filled with tears and my where I have seen my five
hands shook. We had done grandchildren grow up as
it. We had brought the free Jews in a country that
Jewish state into existence is their own.
"Let no one anywhere
— and I, Golda Mabovitch
Meyerson, had lived to see have any doubts about this:
the day. Whatever hap- our children and our chil-
pened now, whatever price dren's children will never
any of us would have to pay settle for anything less."
* * *
for it, we had recreated the .
The
following
excerpts
Jewish national home. The
long exile was over. From are from a New York Daily
this day on, we would no News article by Dr. Bernard
longer live on sufferance in Gifford, civil rights activist
the land of our forefathers. and former deputy chancel-
Now we were a nation like lor of the New York City
other nations, masters - for school sy s tem, who met
the first time in 20 centuries with Mrs. Meir in Israel last
year: -
- of our own destiny.
"As minister of labor and
"The dream had come
true - too late to save those subsequently as foreign
who had perished in the minister, Golda Meir played
Holocaust; but not too late a key role in formulating Is-
for the generation to come." rael's wide-ranging de-
To grow up as free Jews — velopment assistance pro-
"Like my generation, this grams in Black Africa that
'generation of sabras will st- began in 1957, just nine
rive, struggle, make mis- years after Israel achieved
takes and achieve. Like us, its independence. The pro- .
they are totally committed gram resulted from a re-
to the development and se- quest by Ghana's new
curity of the state of Israel president, Kwame
and to the dream of a just Nkrumah, who sought Is-
society here. Like us, they rael's assistance in estab-
know that for the Jewish lishing Ghana's merchant
people to remain a people, it marine and organizing
is essential that there be a Ghana's trade union move-
Jewish state where Jews ment .. .
can live as Jews, not on suf-
"Only after persistent
ferance and not as a minor- questioning did she express
ity. I am certain that they disappointment in the ac-
will bring at least as much tions of the African nations
credit to the Jewish people who had indicted Israel for
everywhere as we tried to racism. At no point did she
bring.
depart from her position
'As for me, my life has that in the long run, 'the
been greatly blessed. Not interests of the developing
only have I lived to see the nations of Black Africa and
state of Israel born, but I those of Israel would bring
have also seen it take in and them together' again.
successfully absorb masses
"Hers was not the boast of
of Jews from all parts of the
the do-gooder or of the
world.
"When I came to this paternalist. It was the voice
country in 1921, its Jewish of one who understood the
population amounted to virtues of peaceful coopera-
80,000 and the entry of each tion because she had spent
Jew depended on permis- so much of her life bearing
sion granted by the Man- witness to the stupiditill
datory Government. We are violent conflict.
"As Golda Meir left the
now a population of over
three million, of whom over meeting, I thought: The
one million are Jews who Jews are a better people be-
have arrived since the es- cause Golda Meir struggled
tablishment of the state to maintain the Jewish tra-
under Israel's Law of Re- dition of humanism. I now
turn, a law that guarantees know that all of us, Jews
the right of every Jew to set- and blacks, are greater than
what we were because her
tle here.
"I am also grateful that I commitment to freedom and
live in a country whose equality for all was as deep
people have learned how to as her commitment to her
go on living in a sea of beloved Israel."

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