We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, only of our fate, not of others, and in cooperation and friendship with others.

In this statement Meir frames Jewish/Israeli national aspirations as a universal, non-imperial claim: the right of any people to self-determination. The repeated narrowing—“only of our fate, not of others”—rejects conquest or domination and positions sovereignty as a defensive, moral necessity rather than an expansionist project. The closing emphasis on “cooperation and friendship” signals a desire for normal statehood: security and autonomy alongside regional and international partnership. Read rhetorically, the line aims to make Israel’s political aims legible in broadly human terms, appealing to shared principles rather than exceptional pleading.