Golda Meir: Israel’s History Rhymes

<div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW3706311 BCX4"> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Mark Twain famously said that “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does often rhyme.” The new film,</span> <a href= "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unW5w6JCEb8"><em><span data-contrast="none"> Golda</span></em></a><span data-contrast="auto">, starring Helen Mirren, provides evidence of that maxim. </span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":0,"335559740":480}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">A surprise Arab attack is carried out on the nation of Israel in the first week of October. An embattled Israeli Prime Minister fights to secure American support. There are whispers of Russian involvement and atrocities in Ukraine.</span> <em><span data-contrast="auto">Golda</span></em> <span data-contrast="auto">is not a film about 2023, but it does recall the remarkably similar story of 1973.</span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":0,"335559740":480}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">In fact, the history of Israel and the wider story of the millennia-long persecution of Jews can feel somewhat like a broken record. No matter the era, no matter the region, no matter the culture, Jacob’s children find themselves in the crosshairs of their neighbors’ hatred.</span><span data-ccp-props= "{"201341983":0,"335559731":720,"335559739":0,"335559740":480}"> </span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">In the 5</span><span data-contrast= "auto">th</span><span data-contrast="auto">-century BC, the royal advisor</span> <a href= "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Esther%203&version=ESV"> <span data-contrast="none">Haman whined to his king</span></a><span data-contrast="auto">: "</span><span data-contrast="auto">There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate th