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HUMOR: Golda Meir on Moses |
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Written by Jack Kus
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Monday, 07 March 2005 |
Know what Golda Meir told Willy Brandt at a state dinner in June 1973? ...
HOLY MOSES
Anecdotage.com
http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=12456
In June 1973, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir attended a state dinner honoring West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. "Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses," she declared. "He took us forty years through the desert -- in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!"
Meir, Golda (1898-1978) Russian-born Israeli stateswoman, founding member of the Israeli Workers' Party, secretary general (1966-68), prime minister of Israel (1969-1974)
[Sources: New York Times, Jun. 10, 1973]
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[NOTE: U.S. petroleum geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes offers a different, unsourced version of this quotation in Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage (Princeton University Press, 2001), p. 124: "Don't talk to me about Moses. He spent 40 years leading us to the one place in the Middle East that doesn't have any oil." --J.K.]
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