Epstein Secrets

om our society.” In 2008, I met Gorbachev again. This time, under the most unusual of circumstances. He was in Israel at the invitation of President Shimon Peres to help celebrate Israel’s 60" birthday. I was there for the same reason. I had just appeared on a panel with Vaclav Havel and with Natan Sharansky,

s in Israel at the invitation of President Shimon Peres to help celebrate Israel’s 60" birthday. I was th

uspected that he might welcome an invitation from Harvard and the platform such as an event would accord him. I replied, “No, the debate should be at Auschwitz; that’s where the evidence is.” He said he would communicate my offer to the president, who, he told me, was on the way to a press conference on the

en of the 21* Century. When I think of how close he came to not surviving, and when I think of how many other Elie Wiesels were lost in the flames of Auschwitz, I begin to understand the full horrors of the Holocaust. 400 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017487

n who, in the following decades, would become the key figure in Israel's arms deals with Germany, as well as the father of the Israeli atomic bomb: Shimon Peres, who would later become Israel's prime minister and is the current Israeli president today, at the age of 88. No Clear Basis EFTA00712601 It is

is assessment, when Israel preempted an attack by its neighbors and achieved a brilliant victory in the Six-Day War. From then on, Strauss's friend Peres consistently reminded his fellow Israelis not to forget "what helped us achieve that victory." The fact that the German security guarantee was not

founder of the State of Israel, once said. "We shall never again be led as lambs to the slaughter," was the lesson Ben-Gurion and others drew from Auschwitz. Armed with nuclear weapons, the submarines are a signal to any enemy that the Jewish state itself would not be totally defenseless in the event of

uilder — she is on the board of governors of the Peres Center for Peace. She divides her time between Is

hem, Robert was also a bully to me and to the children. He came from a family of nine who were extremely poor, and all his siblings were murdered in Auschwitz. His dead mother was the personification of everything that is good. I tried to rival her, which was difficult. I had all these children, trying to