Firstrate diplomat and a firstclass mensch. I think it is great that were awarding him this today. I thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak, to use today, particularly today as many of you know, today is Holocaust Remembrance Day in israel. On this day, the jewish state remembers the most horrific. In the history of the jewish people. It is a day when we reflect on the past and recommit ourselves to making sure that the phrase never again is not merely an empty cliche. Is also time to recognize that the condition of the jewish people is fundamentally different than it was 75 years ago on the eve of the holocaust. Differention is not because there is no longer hatred towards the jewish people. You see that hatred every day. Use it in the iranian regimes o wipe israel off the map. You see it in genocidal treatment of hamas against israel. You see it in the actions of modernday nazis in kansas city. The hatred is there. It is there despite the hopes of the founder of modern zion
Of the war, i was very wounded in battle. The siege in jerusalem in may of 1948, i want to the hospital, came back, and before the end of the war, that is how it looked then, and i never tell them, do not suffer heavy casualties. I do not remember us losing self confidence. People then saw goals ahead of them. At the beginning of the war, we knew that independence was lapping at our gate. November 29, 1947, the british left, and we knew they were going to leave from may 15, 1948. So we knew independence was coming, we knew hundreds of refugees were waiting in the refugee camps, europe and others were sustained by the british, so we knew goals would be open. Having all those goals made you work very hard. I do not remember one day or kind of the crisis or that we lost our selfconfidence. It was a very dangerous war. Are you still in the military . No, i left the military, i joined the underground movement during the british time. Altogether, i served i left in 1973, just three months be
Home, when they had problems. One of the things that gets lost this is not a game. Our jobs a lot of people at home do not think we are really in the business of doing that. We are keeping our jobs, money, politics, and all sorts of things. Our system was meant to not work very well. They wanted a system where it was almost institutionalized gridlock. They split the congress from the president. They feared the tyranny of congress. One foot is on the proverbial break and one foot is on the proverbial accelerator at all times. For our system to work, it requires good faith, working together compromise that trent and the other folks engaged in for a long time. When you can get things done and say, i produced results for the people at home, that is the greatest thing you can do. It is hard to come up i spent all eight years of the bush 43 white house in the white house. I also served in the bush 41 administration. I have had fantastic experiences in all of those. It is hard to pick out a f
In looking back to my childhood, i always believed we can live together with the arabs. Where was the village . The village was in the center of the country, not far from tel aviv, which is one of the main towns in israel. It was a small village. Six families altogether it was very hard to cultivate, no water, for eight years, water had to be brought from the closest river, about six miles away. And then in the winter from the swamp, which was about three miles away. I would say a hard life. My father was a visionist. My father spoke about the avocado as the food of the future. They tried always to he recommended to others. He had a beautiful farm, of course. There were Security Problems. We had all the Security Problems nowadays you speak about. 61 years ago are you 61 years old . Yes. When you were born, what land were you born into, and how much time can you remember the years before it became an actual country, in the 1948 decision . I remember in the 1940s, how do they look . It w
The presiding officer are there any senators wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . If not, the ayes are 57, the nays are 40. And the motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. The clerk cloture motion. We, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, hereby move to bring to a close the debate on the nomination of daniel d. Crabtree of kansas to be United States district judge for the district of kansas. Signed by 17 senators. The presiding officer by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. The question is is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of daniel d. Crabtree of kansas to be the United States district judge for the district of kansas, shall be brought to a close . The yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators wishing to vote or wishing to change the