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As Israeli legate to U.S., New Milcher native plays key carve up in Obama trip
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Six Days of War: An Interview with Michael Oren
One Hundred Thirty-Two Hours & Fifty Years: A Conversation with Michael Oren
Prologue
In the dead of night, on the last day of 1964, a 35-year-old former engineer from Gaza named Yasser Arafat led a squad of al-Fatah guerillas from Lebanon into northern Israel. Bearing Soviet-made explosives, and donned in Syrian-supplied uniforms, their target was a pump for conveying Galilee water to the Negev desert. This nighttime raid, al-Fatah’s maiden operation, would be a spectacular flop. Not only would the planted explosives fail to detonate, but the terrorists would be arrested by Lebanese police as they attempted to slip back across the border.
Nevertheless, the operation does important duty as Michael Oren’s opening vignette in his magnificent Six Days of War. The water pump was always only one element of the dual-purpose mission. In addition to inflicting as much damage as they could against Israeli civilians, al-Fatah hoped their action would “provoke an Israeli retaliation against one of its neighboring countries—Lebanon itself, or Jordan—igniting an all-Arab offensive to destroy the Zionist state.”
Oren admits one might wonder at the “singularly limber imagination” required to believe such petty sabotage, even
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Ambassador Michael Oren's Passover Greeting, 5772
For the Children of Israel, freedom from slavery was anything but free. Toil, loss, displacement, wandering – all were the price of an unfettered Jewish life. And freedom for the Jewish people did not mean anarchy or license, but just the opposite: embracing the Law. Indeed, for some Jews the cost and obligations of liberty were too steep, and they preferred to return to slavery in Egypt. Passover, therefore, not only commemorates our emergence as a sovereign people, but urges us to recall that emancipation endows us all with accountability as well as rights.
This year, as turmoil continues to sweep much of the Middle East, we are once again mindful of freedom’s preciousness and burdens. We in Israel have always been proud to say we are the region’s only functioning democracy, and we would be happier still to be one of many. But, like the ancient Israelites, our neighbors are experiencing a painful process. For their sake and the world’s, we wish them a swift and successful transition culminating in genuine liberty and peace. Israel's co