The Jewish Story: Six Day War, part VI: The Power of Determination

if you would hit the mark says henry wadsworth long fellow you must aim a little above it every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth well i'm definitely aiming high because my target is in shamayim i'm rob mike foyer and this is the jewish story episode 32 six day war part six a whole new world you know i have to tell you that i'm fascinated by the notion of will the sense that there's always a driving force inside of us and inside the world just seeking to manifest and of course it's a truism that we all have a deeper will that when we look at our lives or we see what's manifest in the world we're actually only seeing a layer on top of what could be exposed as perhaps more fundamental this is a lot of the work i do both as a spiritual counselor and of course in the jewish story i'm trying to understand what's really driving the bus and perhaps on a deeper level what we want to because of course there is a continuum between will and desire between what we want what we need what we must have to be and if we're trying to figure out what we actually want there is essentially two ways to go about it you can search for source try to get down deep to what's really going on or you can also look at the embodiment in our lives and in the world you have to remember though that the relationship between source and manifestation is never perfect often messy but always instructive there is so much to be learned when we tell a story or we look at ourselves to ask what we want and why we want it i mean it's the heart and soul of literary analysis isn't it when you look at the characters but of course be warned going deep might be a fruitful process but it's far from simple that's due to the layered nature will that sort of onion model you may be familiar with and of course the fact that multiple legitimate desires can be experienced at once and that strangely human knack we all have for cultivating negative and even destructive desires i mean do i really want that pint of ben and jerry's ice cream standing at the freezer at 11 at night so detain a complete clarity of will is a precious and rare achievement in consciousness that's why to me at least in the work i love to do there's another way to get at what we really want and that's by taking a good hard look at what my life actually looks like if i can determine what's real to me by looking at what i've built what i maintain at the stories that uphold and drive my own process figuring out what i want and how to make it be in my world then i can have a sense really what the deeper drivers in my life are in the story going on the world around me might actually be and determination is the key concept i would call determination in fact the bridge between essential will between those truths that are so fundamental that they push us along and the manifestation of that will in life and world so it's a key concept but determination is actually a funny word i mean you know of course that to determine is an act of an analysis we look at a picture in all its wholeness in its parts we see its links in the subsystems and hopefully sense potentially emergent elements we say this is what i have determined it to be contingent or not every moment demands that on some level but that's what it is to determine to be determined is that have a commitment to make something happen in the world the link between the two usages to determine it to be determined might be obvious to you but i think it's important to make it clear when you make an analysis and determine a situation in a person the world to be so that in turn will determine who you are now that's true in the sense that others will label us based on our beliefs or we all to some degree have a desire to join teams of like-minded people so what we see in the world indeed determines our identity but on a deeper level it's an essential cognitive truth because in profound and sometimes frightening ways the world as we determine it to be determines who we are and the world in which we live the kicker is this this is never a neutral process because if i trust my analysis i'll often find a deep determination to make the truth i perceive in my own life and in the world more manifest will be driven whether to declare the one god to be more loving to my spouse or to simply pursue the part of me that has been neglected for a significant portion of my life a deep determination of will creates a determination to make that will real in the world and that's where the messy and imperfect relationship between true will and our ability to embody it in life in the world starts to kick in and we're right there in our story right now in case you were wondering what the connection was there's a deep will of israel to re-embody in the land of israel and the six day war will perhaps be the high point in that process and certainly it's as high as we're going to get in the story up until now we set a wholehearted thanksgiving as did the prime minister at the western wall but we're troubled because we have not reached a time for thanksgiving with regard to the border alongside which we live and have suffered because of it for many years we cannot continue in this way we're told that the day will come and we too will be freed from this nightmare the long for day has come and we in the galilee do not know why we have not been redeemed from the syrian nightmare these are the words of yaakov eshkoli chairman of the upper galilee regional council head of a delegation of leaders who had just hazarded the roads between the hula valley and tel aviv in order to plead their case before the israeli government on the night of june 8th now ash kohli is an interesting character under himself he'd been the head of the council since 1955 and his tenure will go until and that means that he better than perhaps anyone else knows the nightmare of which he speaks his was the dohamiklaptim the generation of the shelters as they're called the people the communities who held the line along israel's northern border since 1948 absorbing intermittent shelling for nearly two decades as they struggled to plow plant and harvest the land and in the last 10 years eshkoli had seen the rise of cross-border terror as well to come along and disrupt their lives we spoke in previous episodes about how the plo actually emerged in that shift from the fed in raids sponsored by egypt out of gaza to the fatah squads that came out of syria and jordan so in this moment as he spoke eshkoli was filled with a righteous anger the product of two decades of steadfast endurance and he'd come expecting action which at this point was not an unreasonable expectation by day four it was clear that the egyptian and jordanian armies have received a knockout blow in fact king hussein's focus had turned from conquering west jerusalem to preserving the east bank of the jordan and with it his crown egypt was basically just in confusion its citizens were dazed by the first misinformation and then the word of their catastrophic defeat and the leadership was just pointing fingers at one another in hopes of surviving but syria remained untouched in fact it was actually in position to label its shelling of four days and maybe a small border incursion to come as attempted conquest and then call it quits she might even be able to frame it as the great syrian victory of 1967. and that was intolerable not just yaakov veshkoli in the eyes of many people in the room as he spoke the evil had come from the north as we say don't forget we've talked about serious years of cross-border fire its sponsorship of the fatah terror which actually led to that disastrous samurai story told and its aggression against israel's sources of water and bottom line it's never a good idea to leave the instigator of a real problem unpunished so every resident of the 31 settlements in the upper galilee region had spent the first four days of the war deep underground glued to their transistor radios they listened to the miracles of operation mulcaid and the conquest of jerusalem as their homes were destroyed from above they were glued to their transistor radios but shakoli was actually glued to his telephone making constant calls to labor minister and deputy prime minister yigal alone demanding action on the syrian front and begging the opportunity to speak with prime minister lavish goal he called alone because his was a sympathetic ear he himself had been the general in command of the conquest of the galilee in 48 and his party had been driven by a secular vision of an expansive homeland since its inception it was actually foundational so alone was sympathetic and he was really only holding off the chairman until the moment was right and that moment came on the evening of june 8th when after four days and innumerable phone calls escoli finally got his yes he was invited to join the cabinet meeting taking place that very evening in tel aviv and like any good commander preparing his troops alone added a choice piece of intelligence that at least one senior minister who would be present at that meeting was dead set against him as soon as he got word i scrolled he left into an army jeep and his shells continued to rain down he raced south picking up a few critical supporters along the way his heart was filled with a sense of urgency as he imagined the rest of the country dancing in the streets while his hula valley was burning around him when he arrived prime minister lavish gold greeted eshkoli with a hug and ushered the full delegation of four past security and into the cabinet meeting there they were sworn to secrecy on the tanakh and the chairman was given five minutes to speak now like i said i scroll he knew the lay of the land into which he was stepping and therefore he planned to pull no punches in particular he had no doubt that it was defense minister moshe dayan who stood against him after all everyone knew that from the outside of the conflict diane had forbidden oc northern command major general david dado elizar to attack the golan in any manner lest this costs us 30 000 dead and risk a war with the soviet union and they also knew that dion was not a man to be easily swayed and perhaps that's why after the opening words we just heard escrully moved directly to a bold threat looking around at the assembled ministers he announced that if the idf did not remove the syrians from the golan plateau he would recommend that all the upper galilee kibbutzim pack their bags and leave and he added it was a certainty the people of the city of kiryat shmona on the lebanese border would follow quickly behind them silence fell over the room as everyone present contemplated the vast implications of such a national retreat and it's a measure of ashgolli's character that no one doubted he meant what he said or that he could make it happen it was all he really had to say so ash goalie then turned to leave the meeting as he did so the prime minister jumped up grabbed his hand and declared that quote the words of escoli have entered the heart of lady eshkol and they will play a crucial role in what we decide to do on the golan heights but the truth is not everyone was quite as moved by ashcrolly's emotional appeal or by his threat moshe down of course was the first to reply quote if we go into syria to change the border in order to make things easier for our settlements because the syrians fire on i object he said as the prime minister took his seat it was an explanation that came quite shocking to some in the room and he followed it up with an even more surprising statement if we now want to change state borders i don't think the arab world will reconcile with it and i don't think it will end with the war tonight the delegation gave us an emotional presentation but in my opinion it's better to move 10 settlements 15 kilometers to the side and say we're not dealing with this now if we can't he received immediate pushback chief amongst his opponents it was of course yigal alone who insisted that the scale of their victory itself would force the arabs to accept israel in the region but diane held fast and he added a cold war note to his opposition the syrians who are known for their extremism will not come to terms with it not today and not in a few years this would mean the creation of a new political and military front while syria has firm ties with the ussr and the reference to the russians were not idle words in the ears of those present just that afternoon soviet ambassador truvacan had presented the foreign ministry with a denouncement of israel's refusal to date to accept any and every ceasefire proposal and he added to it a warning if the government of israel does not abide by the decisions of the security council the soviet union will review its diplomatic relations with israel and consider additional steps necessitated by israel's aggressive policy now don't forget soviet threats of intervention played a crucial role in backing israel down at the end of the suez campaign back in 56 but igal alone was not so easily overcome and most of the room was already behind him no one really believed at that point that a super power conflict was imminent and the fear of international wrath could always be allayed with the very idea that it helped alone overcome the cabinet's initial hesitation to declare war the world will condemn us but we will survive dion later described the decision about to happen in a interview in 1976 with idiot ahrono newspaper he said the capture of the golan heights was unnecessary look we can speak in terms of the syrians our scoundrels they should be screwed now is the time and so forth but that's not policy you don't screw the enemy because he's a scoundrel but because he threatens you and the syrians on the fourth day of the war were no threat to us and in saying this diane felt he had proof on the night of june 8th as the cabinet meeting was already progressing israel intercepted a telegram from nasser to the syrian president and it read i believe israel stands to concentrate all its forces against syria in order to destroy the syrian army and i must advise you to agree to a ceasefire and notify uthant at once in order to preserve the great syrian army we have lost this campaign may god be with us in the future your brother gama abed al-nasr nonetheless though dayan as defense minister essentially held the veto even he couldn't defeat the forces at play against him lieutenant general jaime barley expressed the opposition in its most essential sense i do not want to think of a situation where the war ends without the syrians getting what they deserve and so as the dawn approached and the argument drew on the defense minister finally came around making the ultimate decision to attack unanimous now there's endless scholarly speculation on why dion changed his mind the shift during reports in the egyptian and jordanian fronts about overwhelming victory internal political considerations personal collapse under the pressure of united opposition in that interview i mentioned diane himself simply said i saw no justification not to act according to the will of most of the members of the government of the prime minister and of the chief of staff that might be noble and it might be an invasion of responsibility hitach rabin put it best i think in his memoirs moshe dayan the unpredictable whose moves were unforeseeable surprised us once again but chairman of the upper galilee regional council yaakov ashkoli couldn't possibly know that as the argument raged in the cabinet he was already headed north on those dangerous roads back home to fargiladi i can only imagine the fear and uncertainty that gripped him i mean surely his words had entered the heart of everyone listening not just the prime ministers but he couldn't know whether they'd be enough to overcome the calculus of war at five am i scrolling past northern command's bunker and decided to stop and check in with dr elazar he found the general slumped over at his decks but dotto perked right up when i scully arrived eager to hear the report on the cabinet meeting and as they were speaking the phone rang it was the defense ministry ash goalie watched ella's face shift as he listened and he himself could hear moshe dayan's resonant voice on the line he had one simple order climb the golan and succeed at 7 30 am on june 10th the hotline teletype of the white house came to life and the message it spit out from soviet prime minister alexei could not be misinterpreted a very crucial moment has now arrived which forces us if military actions are not stopped in the next few hours to adopt an independent position we are ready to do this however these actions may bring us into a clash which will lead to a grave catastrophe we propose that you demand from israel that it unconditionally ceased military action we propose to warn israel that if this is not fulfilled necessary actions will be taken including military and in case president johnson somehow missed the point another telex followed a couple hours later asserting that israel's real intent was to conquer damascus and demanding that she be stopped clearly syria was a more valuable client state to the soviet union than egypt and as the reports came in and the president's advisors gathered all indications were that these were not idle words with the crushing of egypt's army and the conquest of jerusalem the time for cold war bluster in this conflict has long passed johnson took two actions in response to the telex first he ordered the two terrier groups of the sixth fleet which was steaming west between crete and roads at that point to turn back toward israel's coasts the soviets needed to see very clearly that america was not to be intimidated but then he replied with a brief and cordial message there was no mistaking in johnson's eyes the disastrous potential of the moment and so the president promised the premier that the u.s was doing its absolute utmost to restrain israel and then he encouraged the russians to do the same with syria there were a few more tent exchanges across the telex line but in the end no one wanted nuclear war and perhaps because johnson was forced to be so diplomatic with the soviets he kept some choice words for israel because the message went out on every conceivable channel and in no uncertain terms right after he got off the line that morning when foreign minister aban updated american ambassador wally barbour the latter refused to accept eben's off-repeated assurances that of course israel agreed to a ceasefire just as soon as the syrian guns went quiet instead he told the foreign minister israel must prove his acceptance of the ceasefire on the ground before the security council meets this afternoon otherwise it will jeopardize its gains on all other fronts u.n ambassador arthur goldberg from the u.s put it this way to his israeli counterpart guidon raphael first he told rafael that the u.s was fully convinced the soviet government was indeed prepared to use any and all means necessary to make israel respect the coming ceasefire resolution and then he delivered a personal message from the president the united states government does not want the war to end as the result of a soviet ultimatum this would be disastrous for the future not only of israel but of us all it is your responsibility to act now finally israeli ambassador to the u.s abe harmon was informed that israel alone bears responsibility for the ongoing fighting with syria world opinion is turning against you and congress quote has had its full of the failure to stop the fighting did you hear it it was the triple crown of diplomatic prester first pragmatic advice of what we call tapas maruba lo te fasta that if you try to grab too much you're gonna end up with nothing it's an idea a concept that we're going to revisit many times in the coming season trust me then there was an appeal to political sophistication and an appreciation of global responsibility the cold war is and will remain a weighty reality in our story for some decades to come not something lightly ignored ultimately we're going to have to consider in the coming season where the cold war was good news for the jews but for right now it certainly can't be avoided and finally came the threat couched in terms of international judgment now world opinion may or may not have been important personally to escort his ministers but on some level they all knew that without the american diplomatic shield israel stood naked before the nations even before this current crisis raphael had warned abi ibn that without a clear declaration of policy quote not only is israel credibility at stake but were in danger of being condemned by the security council including the united states and frankly with france dropping an arms embargo in place right with the outbreak of war israel surely recognized that american weapons were going to be critical in at least the near future so on the heels of this one-two punch from the americans a cable from moscow arrived on levy eshkol's desk condemning israel's criminal violations of the unceasefire resolutions and threatening sanctions of every type if she did not cease quote her treasonous advance on damascus finally in case the gravity of the situation had somehow still evaded the prime minister soviet ambassador chuvalkin burst into foreign minister abby iben's office refusing to sit he instead declared in a shaky voice in light of the continued aggression by israel against the arab states and the flagrant breach of the security council's resolution the ussr government has decided to break diplomatic relations with israel even ever quick to respond acknowledge the deep divide between israel and soviets but he urged them to strengthen their ties rather than cut them chewbacca responded that indeed his words were logical quote but i haven't been sent here to be logical i've come to tell you about the rupture of relations and then he burst out in tears i wonder if chewbacca actually in that moment saw his future in light of israel's victory he was soon to be ousted from the foreign service and off to siberia for his failures now nine out of the ten communist bloc countries followed suit in breaking off diplomatic relations with israel romania being the sole exception the process of restoration of those relations would only begin with ussr re-establishing their link in 1991 two months before their own national collapse it was a diplomatic implosion of catastrophic proportions but it was only the beginning of labiascool's day at 10 a.m on june 10th just as america was receiving its second menacing message from the soviets northern front commander dotto elazar was updating the prime minister defense minister and portions of the general staff on the situation in the north first they needed to note that the idf had succeeded in the ultimate uphill battle now i'll leave it to your reading of military history to get into the details of how exactly israel took the golan heights but if you can't picture the train do yourself a favor pause right now and google an image or two in order to imagine what advancing up that rampart in armaine on foot must have actually been like there could be no profound expression of that heroic side of the israeli character embodied best within the idf but not solely so which is kadima forward because that's the only way to go i mean to say that it took determination to conquer along isn't just an understatement it's actually definitive the will of israel to re-embody in its land is expressive of sources that lie deep in creation and the taking of that ridge was determinant of how powerful that will really is so at this early hour on june 10th the syrians weren't exactly on the run yet but israel radio's arabic channel was actively rebroadcasting the false syrian claim that kunitra the capital of the golan had actually already fallen their goal was clear to break the will of the remaining defenders already panicked by israel's advance and indeed the city was essentially abandoned when the idf tanks finally rolled in and depending on your perspective i imagine the scene looked much like a fulfillment of the prophecy you find in devarim 28 7. right god will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be beaten before you they're going to come out against you in one direction in this case with one will but they'll flee from you in seven you know i didn't tell the story but for me one of the most powerful images of the whole war is rav goren chief military rabbi after that famous shofar photo at the wall you may know that the rav jumped in a jeep horn in hand and sped south toward hebron blowing as he went and essentially the city fled before him i'll tell the story maybe when we get into the impact of this unprecedented victory on religious zionism but for now up here in the golan it's yigal alone and not rav goran who's driving the process after dotto's initial report eshkol said to him we must finish quickly we're under heavy pressure from the u.n the general assured the prime minister that his men could achieve their objective by four in the afternoon he was aiming for a line from module shams on the shoulder of the harmon through kunitra south but to elzar in that moment anything seemed possible the prime minister almost blocked even at that line if you say four it could be five or six he protested but darrow simply smiled sir if i say four i mean two or three deputy operations chief evie was seated right next to the prime minister while eleazar spoke yigal alone and much carmel were also listening closely everyone had high hopes for this moment xavi put it this way when later describing the scene he said my job was to keep squeezing eshkol for another hour and then another hour of fighting and that was far from easy at this point the diplomatic collapse we described had already put half of his cabinet in open revolt they were demanding israel agreed to an immediate ceasefire even defense minister moshe dayan having okayed the initial invasion was now skeptical of pushing any further into syrian territory nonetheless dion ultimately agreed to the prime minister's proposal that they give dado four more hours of fighting and that at two o'clock he would approach un general odd bull and announce israel's acceptance of a ceasefire which meant that for the maximalists in the room the clock was ticking by the time gal alone arrived in the golan the syrian army was in full flight the syrians had tried to use the security council's suddenly willingness to confront israel in order to stiffen their troops fighting resolve but it was too little too late the route was so bad that thousands of men in uniform took refuge in jordan in lebanon add to that nearly 95 000 civilians who took flight deeper into syria out of fear and on evacuation orders from their own national guard only the drews and circasian communities remained which in igallon's eyes was the perfect outcome beyond questions of border security and the opportunity to expand the homeland alone had a larger vision of what such a victory might mean he and other israeli generals and politicians dreamed of an alliance of minorities in the middle east a tribal coalition if you will of non-arab peoples bound by common interests and facing a common enemy now such a vision might seem crazy but it's not as crazy as it looks through the rear view of 2020 hindsight remember that in 1967 the druze and circasians of the golan had kinsmen who were serving loyally in the idf army advancing upon them in that moment anyway the syrians were in such a panic at this point that even their general staff and political leadership fled from damascus to aleppo in fear of the israeli conquest of the capital despite all that the actual linear progress of israeli troops on the ground was still quite slow too slow for yigal alone at one point on his tour of the front he came across a company of idf soldiers halted on the side of the road to kunetra he jumped down grabbed the reconnaissance officer and asked what they were doing sitting there waiting for orders came the reply don't just stand there run now bellow it alone the former general take kunitra and it was quite an effective command by 12 30 the idf had entered the city without significant resistance far from it what they found were empty streets and abandoned houses some with hot lunch still on the table now at this point there was nothing between the israeli armor and damascus and in this fervor dotto actually urged chief of staff yitzhak rabin to authorize the thrust deep into syrian territory proper and perhaps even surround the capital rabin outright refused and instead insisted that dabo stop the advance immediately the sole exception was to be mount ramon which air force commander matihood present at their discussion called the eyes of the nation because up there you can see it all defense minister moshe dayan wasn't there for the conversation he might have balked at such a bold staking of claim but you know maybe not because he wasn't there because he himself was buying time in a pretty underhanded fashion dayan had informed oddball hours ago that israel was ready for a ceasefire and the two agreed to meet in tavaria on the shores of the galilee at 2 pm for a formal adoption only as the u.n general was already in route from jerusalem dayan changed the location when they finally met up in tel aviv after the mix-up it was already three in the afternoon and dotto had gained a critical hour of advance now things almost broke down right away when general bull announced that what was needed was to break the cycle of israeli advances which triggered syrian defensive actions which in turn served as an excuse for further encroachment by israel on syrian territory dayan rejected that narrative out of hand and said that the ids activities would stop immediately and absolutely the minute the syrian guns went silent he also made it clear that no violations of that condition would be accepted not even if there were units who had yet to receive the order in the end after some arguments the two men agreed that fighting would cease at 6 00 pm and then they went their separate ways never really having liked each other the defense minister's first call was to dardo ellazar in the north filling him in on the conditions of the agreement and warning that he would tolerate no excuses from the idf either and then dion ordered ezra weitzman and zevi to draw up a map of israel's new border with syria he gave them a warning as well control yourselves as the clock ticked away dotto shoved a helmet on every available man not accepting cooks and supply curves and had them run jeep or even helicopter to every strategic hilltop within reach the high water mark of his momentum perhaps of these determining events altogether was when colonel pinchas noy of the 13th golani battalion arrived by helicopter at mount hemon and planted the star of david at its peak no war exists in a vacuum not when it comes to causes or consequences and certainly not when it comes to the question of how we tell its story in the case of the six day war we spent some time on causes already and in fact if you see this war as an expression of israel's will to re-embody in our land then it's kind of what i've been talking about since day one and i can promise you that much of season four are going to be about its consequences after all these are the six days that shape the world in which we live much like the six days of creation but i want to say a word now about how the story is told because the narrative warfare which accompanied the actual battle was taking place well before any shots were fired and it recognized no ceasefire israel's foreign minister abba eben charges uar president nasser plotted the murder of a state the vote is finally taken and the resolution adopted unanimously where it continues to come from a battle zone killing of sweeping israeli victories there are many rounds of diplomatic struggle ahead in our story culminating in the un resolution 242 the security council's effort to secure quote a just and lasting peace in the region we're going to talk about it don't worry but i want to end this particular episode with the words of foreign minister abba even as he addressed a special assembly of the united nations called by the soviet union on june 19th less than two weeks after the war in recent weeks he opened the middle east has passed through a crisis whose shadows darken the world this crisis has many consequences but only one cause israel's right to peace security sovereignty economic development and maritime freedom indeed its very right to exist has been forcibly denied and aggressively attacked this is the true origin of the tension which torments the middle east now that's a pretty clear statement and you may know that in coming decades it's going to be refuted with another equally simple assertion that israel in fact is the cause of all that ails the middle east no coward even went on to accuse the soviets who'd actually called that special assembly in order to punish israel of having a key role in creating the problem to begin with all the conditions of tension all the impulses of aggression in the middle east have been aggravated by the policy of one of the great powers which under our charter bear primary responsibilities for the maintenance of international peace and security i shall show how the soviet union has been unfaithful to that trust the burden of responsibility lies heavy upon her he speaks it out but then even goes on to employ what i see to be the most important tool that any educator really has challenging and reconstituting the frame for knowledge itself the general assembly he says is chiefly preoccupied by the situation against which israel defended itself on the morning of 5 june i shall invite every peace-loving state represented here to ask itself how it would have acted on that day if faced with similar dangers but if our discussion is to have any weight or depth we must understand that great events are not born in a single instant of time in his speech even then details the conflict of last 20 years mixing facts analysis and stirring prose in the way in which really only he could but the whole story he tells rests on this primary assertion from 1948 to this very day there has not been one statement by any arab representative of a neighboring arab state indicating readiness to respect existing agreements or to recognize israel's sovereign right of existence or to apply to israel any of the central provisions of the united nations charter the exploits of israel's defence forces on that day will be told from one generation to another with the deepest pride today again the soviet union has described our resistance as aggression and sought to have it condemned there is no accurate foundation for this assertion we reject it with all our might here was armed force employed in a just and righteous defensive cause as righteous as the defense of freedom and valley forward now it's a long speech and i really do encourage you to read it in full i'll try to do my best to finally update the bibliographies on these last few shows even concludes by first calling out the destructive nature of the arab world's obsession with jewish sovereignty destructive by the way not to israel but to the arab states themselves it's an obsession which has warped their culture hobbled their economies and inspired the oppression of their own people and then at the very end he offers a vision an expression of what the government for whom he speaks the people from which he springs really want he says that quote an entirely new story never known or told before would unfold across the eastern mediterranean it's a story where all are endowed with sovereign freedom it may seem he concludes that israel stands alone against numerous and powerful adversaries we have faith in the undying forces in our nation's history which have so often given the final victory to spirit over matter to inner truth over mere quantity we believe in the vigilance of history which has guarded our steps the garden of israel neither slumbers nor sleeps the middle east tired of wars is ripe for a new emergence of human vitality let the opportunity not fall again from our hands i want to make an invitation even before i thank anybody we're almost here at the end of this season and i want your questions i want your comments more than anything else i want your commitment if you feel like these thoughts deserve a future then i'm going to ask you to put your money where your ears are even one dollar can help push this story forward imagine 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