| Rating: | ★★★★ |
| Category: | Books |
| Genre: | Biographies & Memoirs |
| Author: | Golda Meir |
The recent events in the Middle East involving the State of Israel is not the impetus in my reading this book. It just so happen that my father got this book from my shelf of unread materials while I was not home (and without my permission) and left it lying around. The matter of fact is I began reading it even before those events filter into the news.
However, that I am halfway done through it when the media focused on the latest on the Israel-Palestinian conflict helped a lot in my viewing of the situation. Foremost, it helped me somehow consider that Israel may not be the bully in the conflict and neither are the Palestinians the victims of Israel.
The book, however, made me realize how subjectivity can indeed influence the writing of history. In the book, for example, the likes of Nixon, the military junta of Burma (or their predecessors), Idi Amin of Uganda, and Nicolae Ceauşescu of Romania appear hero-like at some point.
This book is a good reading though for it shows a fine example of a lady-politician-leader who only had in her being the good of her people.
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