The bonhomie between Narendra Modi and Benjamin Netanyahu and the oozing unctuousness of TV commentators reminded me of Golda Meir’s tart comment when Israel’s sixth prime minister, Menachem Begin, Egypt’s Anwar Sadat, and Jimmy Carter were proposed for the Nobel Peace Prize. “I don’t know about the Nobel but they certainly deserve Oscars,” she remarked.
I asked Meir once at a lunch in London whether she wanted diplomatic relations with India. Instead of replying directly, she said she knew Indira Gandhi. They had met at some jamboree in East Africa. Then she added somewhat bitterly, “India is so huge, we are
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