Declassified: Golda Meir on Kennedy’s Assassination
What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me—Genesis 4:10
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Lesser Mystery
Both leaders participated in the funeral. Back in Israel, Golda Meir said words that remained secret until today.
Golda's Dark Corners
"Before the assassination, Kennedy had many
critiques who felt that he was afar from the people. After he was
assassinated, the ambience changed. There was a feeling that it turned
the Americans' world upside-down. There was a feeling of personal loss
to every American. They said that there were two million people on
Washington's streets. I had never seen something similar," she said
before praising Jacqueline Kennedy.
Afterwards, she commented on his relations with
Israel and the Jews. The following paragraph is shown in the small image
below; I kept her awkward phrasing but in the translation fixed a few
of her Hebrew errors to make the text clearer.
"When I returned one year ago after a
conversation with Kennedy, it was almost one year ago, I said that
indeed I trusted him, and I am not yet ready to change my position. Also
if the great calamity didn't take place, I would have said the same
thing, that I trust that he was a friend. It doesn't matter that people
say that he needed the Jewish votes, I didn't question his friendship
and I do not do that now. Of course, there would be arguments, there
would be misunderstandings, we won't get all that we want, I had no
doubt on these. However, the most important thing is that I did not give
up, he is an address [i.e. he listens to us], a serious address and a
very important one." Clumsy and heavy, but overall a positive text. Then
she uttered the words that probably led to the classification of an
otherwise non-sensitive report.
"American Jews breathed in relief when it was
found that the assassin was not a Jew. Why should one think that rather a
Jew would kill Kennedy? I don't know...
"There are in this issue dark corners that
probably would never be elucidated. Today there is already news that
Oswald was insane, that he was not balanced, that he was crazy. The fact
is that there is a little thing with the Dallas Police that is strange.
A policeman entered the building to check that everything was in order.
A guy [Oswald] passed him with a package and he asked him 'What's
that?' The guy answered: a curtain. He didn't ask himself if the package
really contains a curtain and what is he doing. When somebody told him
'he works with us,' he was pleased with the answer. What does it matter
if he worked for them or not? He has a package, check out what is in the
package. They didn't check the package.
"A member of the Kennedy Administration hinted me
that he is not sure that Oswald acted alone. Now, this investigation is
not only about Kennedy's assassination, but about the identity of Ruby.
What was the reason for assassinating Oswald?
"An important member of the Kennedy
Administration told me that the question whether Ruby worked alone or
was a messenger attempting to silence Oswald is the difference between
peace and war.
"If he was a messenger of Castro, if there is a
Castro underground that can kill the President and it is organized at
such level that they can kill the killer 'oy vaaboy'+
that within it is a Jew [Ruby was a Jew]. They see harshly the killing
of Oswald. Maybe I should say no less harshly than Kennedy's
assassination. If this is part of a plan, if there is an underground,
and not only that I am not a detective I don't like detective books, but
I ask myself, I think, that Ruby is the messenger of someone. Of a
political underground or of the Dallas Police."
"Can they investigate?"
At this moment, she was interrupted by Minister
of Justice David Yosef, "Did that happen within a building?" "Inside the
building," Golda answered, "in the corridor where journalists and
television crews enter. They checked everybody. A door was opened and
Oswald entered, handcuffed and held by two policemen. In the crowd there
was a man with a gun, that approached Oswald and shoot. There is a
picture when Ruby is firing and next to him there is a standing
policeman watching. It was fantastic."
She ended the report with another sentence that
turned out to be the sad truth "They have decided to turn the world
upside-down and investigate the issue to the end. Can they investigate? I
don't know."
Hebrew is rich in subtexts and inversions. For
example, in English, Job 2:9 reads "Then said his wife unto him, Dost
thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die." This text is
unthinkable in Hebrew due to its blasphemy. The Hebrew original reads
"bless God and die." The hint of the inversion is in the logical fallacy
achieved. Not writing the vowels, Hebrew speakers and readers must
analyze the meaning and complete it; subtexts are an integral part of a
message. People are expected to analyze and understand.
What Golda clearly said to her Hebrew speaking audience was "Ruby is alive, Oy vaaboy if we get caught!"
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