Ben-Gurion said about her: “The only thing Golda knows how to do is to hate!”
Uri Avnery
Golda Meir did not hate me. That would be an understatement. She detested me.
The way I speak, the way I dress, the way I look. Everything.
Once, in the middle of a speech in the Knesset (I believe it was about allowing the Beatles to appear in Israel) I interrupted myself and said: “Now I want to answer MK Golda Meir…”
“But MK Meir has not said anything!” the chairman objected.
“I am not answering an interjection,” I explained. “I am answering her grimaces!”
And indeed, Golda was grimacing, every muscle of her face proclaiming her detestation.
“My name is Ayra Reyla, I’m 23-years-old and I came to Germany about a year ago in order to study. Originally, I’m from Guelph, Canada, a small town near Toronto.”
“I remember that I was a bit out of my depth with the metro system when I first arrived here. My father was with me and we then decided to take a cab from the airport to get to the hotel.”
**Photo: President Donald Trump speaks with Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Deputy Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, 14 March 2017. | Foreign Leader Visits | The White House from Washington, DC | public domain. | Wikimedia Commons.
Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya, 4 May 2018 (UNHCR)* — Esperanza Tabisha, a refugee fashion designer from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is arranging her latest designs in her small shop made of corrugated iron in Kakuma refugee camp, north-western Kenya.
Two customers arrive to take a look at what is on sale. One is a refugee, another works for a local non-governmental organization. Most of the merchandise is made of kitenge, a thick, shiny fabric, traditionally dyed in bright colours.
(Greenpeace)*— It is our right, and duty, to disobey when we are unwillingly forced to participate in climate destruction. That’s why our colleagues in Sweden are challenging financial institutions by stopping payments to the state pension fund, because of the role it plays in fuelling climate change.
Donald Trump should not receive the Nobel Peace prize. But will he? The French have a beautiful expression, “voyons voir,” which can be roughly translated as “let’s wait and see what happens.”
**Photo: Donald Trump Laconia Rally, Laconia, NH by Michael Vadon July 16 2015 | Author: Michael Vadon | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Four US presidents have already been awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter (after leaving office), and Barack Obama in 2009 for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people.”
