Epstein Secrets

y are an insurance policy against the Israelis' fundamental fear that "the Arabs could slaughter us tomorrow," as David Ben-Gurion, the 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 w

can policies, or nebulous moral motives, that led Chancellor Merkel to publicly state in 2008 that Germany bears responsibility for the security of the State of Israel. From my point of view, this is a serious exaggeration, one that sounds very nearly like the type of obligation that exists within an alliance." S

Whether and in what form the Jewish state should accept Germany's help was a matter of controversy for the Israeli public. The later Prime Minister Menachem Begin, for example, who had lost much of his family in the Holocaust, could only see Germany as the "land of the murderers." To this day, financial assis

avid Ben Gurion was asked by a visiting Bar Mitzvah kid how comes that he, rather than any other leader during the last 2000 years re established the State of Israel. BG replied that in ancient times people were born with a sixth sense, one for seizing opportunities. along history most of us lost it. I, BG add

of us lost it. I, BG added, did not. I've seen an opportunity and I seized it. He didn't mentioned the horrors or the sacrifice of the 48' war.PM Menachem Begin, several years after the bitter 73' war made the daring peace with Egypt. PM Itzhak Rabin, exactly 20yrs ago, signed the Peace treaty with Jordan

happened to be (three days after) my 70th birthday. On that day, the Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Prime Minister of the State of Israel exchanged letters of mutual recognition. Yasser Arafat recognized Israel, Yitzhak Rabin recognized the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian

omats. The pretext was flimsy as usual: an anti-PLO terrorist outfit had tried to assassinate the Israeli ambassador in London. When Prime Minister Menachem Begin was told by his Mossad chief that the assassins were enemies of the PLO, Begin famously answered: "For me, they are all PLO!" As a matter of fact,

rces Agreement. UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 (Zionism-Racism). Lebanese President Suleiman Frangieh invites Syrian troops into the country. Menachem Begin’s Likud Party wins Israeli national elections after 29 years of Labor Party dominance. In a speech in Cairo, President Anwar al-Sadat announces his r

eemed intractable. Part I begins with the Oslo peace talks, which in 1993 produced the Declaration of Principles (DoP) and the mutual recognition of the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the legitimate representative of the Palestinian people. These two agreements formed the basis for

dely reported speech to the Israeli Knesset in 2008: “We must give up Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem and return to the core of the territory that is the State of Israel prior to 1967, with minor corrections dictated by the reality created since then.” Olmert, a man with a reputation as a hard-liner, said that meant I

appened? Millions of Israelis are descendants of those who died in the Holocaust. In 1981, when Iraq threatened Israel, Israel’s then prime minister, Menachem Begin, ordered the HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023542 --- PAGE BREAK --- 2] Israeli Air Force to destroy Iraq’s nuclear reactor and then declared that “Israel has

ur relations with the US President, the administration, the HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028902 --- PAGE BREAK --- Congress and the American people are vital to the State of Israel. The United States is Israel's main ally and strategic support. Our relations with it are the cornerstone of Israel's military capabilities, the IDF'

, the doubts, the risks. many assumed we would fail. He talked about the opportunity and recognizing it. And the deed. • Like Ben Gurion at the time, Menachem Begin - with Egypt, and Rabin - in the peace treaty with Jordan, and later Peres - with the first steps towards the Palestinians, took huge national, diplo

is that there isn't full symmetry here. • Our relations with the US President, the administration, the Congress and the American people are vital to the State of Israel. The United States is Israel's main ally and strategic support. Our relations with it are the cornerstone of Israel's military capabilities, the IDF'

, the doubts, the risks. many assumed we would fail. He talked about the opportunity and recognizing it. And the deed. • Like Ben Gurion at the time, Menachem Begin - with Egypt, and Rabin - in the peace treaty with Jordan, and later Peres - with the first steps towards the Palestinians, took huge national, diplo