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The Zionist Case: Golda Meir | September 22, 2009

Origin:

• Jerusalem
• March 25, 1946
• “Testimony Before the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry”
• Speech given to powers of Britain and America
• Golda Meir – Zionist activist and dedicated politician
• In response to inquiry of said powers in the issue of Palestine
• In response to the renewed fervor for Jewish homeland following the Holocaust

Purpose:

• Securing a legitimate homeland within the area of Palestine
• “create a free Jewish society”
• Ensuring good standing in the graces of the UK and US
• “you who have had the good fortune to belong to the two great democratic nations, the British and the American”
• To assuage British and American worries over Zionist immigration into Palestine (through means of pathos) and to assert that Arab rights are not being abridged
• “Jews only want [...] to bring the surviving Jewish children, of whom not so man are not left in the world”

• “they sought to achieve these goals in complete friendship and cooperation with the Arab population”

Value:

• Primary source
• Golda Meir (future Prime Minister of state of Israel)
• Born in Russia, exposed to Anti-Semitic pogroms; lived in United States
• Bias can be seen in supposed “facts” (cooperation with Arab neighbors)
• Much more based in emotional appeal than factual appeal
• “to watch from here millions of Jews being slaughtered [...] I will say nothing about them [...] but you can imagine”
• Value is decreased due to lack of facts and Zionist bias
• Value due to actual political standing of Golda Meir

Limitation:

• Limited by lack of facts
• Does not mention Arab dissatisfaction with Zionist immigration; glosses over the troubles in Palestine
• Given to two states who had already shown support for Zionist cause, as opposed to neutral states
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