Chris Knight reviews a documentary about Israeli prime minister Golda Meir
Students of Israeli history may get something out of this dusty doc, which chronicles the time in office of Golda Meir, the country’s fourth Prime Minister. But as a general-interest film it’s a bit dry.
That’s not to say Meir’s time in office was boring. Called out of political retirement after the sudden death of her predecessor, the 70-year-old former minister of labour and foreign affairs was Prime Minister from 1969 to 1974. That stretch included the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, and the Yom Kippur War, which resulted in the deaths of more than 2,000 Israeli soldiers, and thousands more Egyptians, Syrians and others. We hear from admirers and critics within the government and the press, though the overall tone of the film is positive.
Through it all she was a hardliner, often refusing to entertain peace proposals from her Arab neighbours, and remarking in a lost interview that forms the backbone of this documentary: “Every Arab in the world has a choice. A Jew has no choice.” She also greenlit Operation Wrath of God, the Mossad’s program to hunt down and assassinate those responsible for Munich, though she had no direct control over its activities.Meir died in 1978.
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