Question

Use the passage to answer the question.

We came to Palestine to do away with the helplessness of the Jewish people through our own endeavors. Therefore, you will realize what it meant for us to watch from here millions of Jews being slaughtered during these years of war.

–Golda Meir, speech, 1946

What is the most valid inference that can be drawn from the above statement?

Meir wanted to keep the territories Israel won from its Arab neighbors.


Meir wanted non-Jewish settlers to leave Israel.


Meir believed Jews could not be safe without their own country.


Meir emigrated to the Palestine Mandate after the Holocaust.

Answer 1

Meir believed Jews could not be safe without their own country.

There is reference that those that left were helpless to help Jews left behind in Europe who came victim to the Holocaust. Being there was no country to speak for the Jews, they are powerless to defend themselves against groups wishing them harm. A country focused on the interest of Jews would be the only way to ensure the safety of Jews and to give them a voice in the world. 

Answer 2

New Nations Emerge Unit Test

12. b. Meir believed Jews could not be safe without their own country.