The Golda Meir quote is a bit disputed and turns up in various forms, but the variants quoted here are all wrong in a vital point. If one knows Meir and history, it is very obvious she never would have phrased it that way:

Meir talks about Arabs, not Palestinians.

In her mind, there were no Palestinians as a distinct nation (ethnic group), but only Arabs living in Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon (and Israel, of course). Palestinians (and Palestine) for her were only an Arab propaganda invention.

Wolfgang