So the question is whether there are pressure all . And just everything was drinking. Whats the question . Why do we not reach out more . Okay, okay. Let me answer. Its a very simple answer. Of course you can understand they want us to reach out more. We have to reach out in a sensible realistic way. One of the problems is the peace thinking of the peace concept will not renew in 20 years of reality refuted them time after time. This is why we need fresh thinking. It will not try to sell today is a new car or a 25yearold chevy. So its time to think fresh. And to describe it in a sentence. When israelis open their hearts and say its a good pc to 93 the result was the wave of terror and exploding in jerusalem. When israelis took it to step forward in the camp david Peace Agreement 2000, the result was the worst suicide army terror offenses ever. When israelis open their heart the third time and withdrew from the gaza strip, the result was rockets coming and making life in southern israel
Those days are not quite as distant as some suppose. We remember that a few people still alive today lived through them, albeit as children. 2014 will mark that centennial of the drama which profoundly influenced the history of the world. I spent the last three years writing a book describing both how the war came about and what happened on the battlefields during its first months before the french lapsed into a stalemate. There is a widely held view, a delusion, as i shall argue, that the two world wars belong to different moral orders. Nineteen robo one was a good war, world war ii was bad. The first subject was so horrendous that turned is that makes it of the two sides causes could badly to meant barely managed. They add a view of what they think happened. Until 1941 britain defied the vast evil of nazism, berlin. In russia and the United States took this train encompassing the destruction of hitler. The struggle was nothing like as bloody as its predecessor, says some people kid t
We look forward to seeing you tomorrow. Next, Elizabeth Varon recalls robert e. Lees surrender to the ulysses s. Grant led union forces said the mclean house on october 9th 101865. This is about 45 minutes. [applause] thank you so much for that very, very kind introduction. Its a pleasure to be here. Property surrendered u. S. Grant in 1865 which is for most americans a familiar tableau. The two men met your mama Central Virginia at appomattox courthouse. Lee wore a fine dress uniform and vow gentility of the southeasterly. Create test crack early and represented the hardscrabble farmers and wage earners had molded in to so formidable a fighting machine. After awkwardly exchanging pleasantries about service in the mexican war, the two men agree to the surrender terms and ended the civil war. In essence, grants term salve for the army of north virginia on there arent. The promise that they would never again take up arms against the United States. Great magnanimity in this relates to the