Mediocrates
06-17-2002, 07:14 AM
http://www.isracast.com/interactive_features/gallerybegin.html
That link is the text of the speech. Here is the background:
"The 'Lost Speech'
By Mordechai I. Twersky
The following is a transcript of an address by Menachem Begin on Sept. 20, 1978--delivered three days after the historic Camp David Accords were signed with Egypt.
The speech was given before an audience of about 2,000 American Jewish leaders and guests of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in the grand ballroom of the Americana Hotel in New York City.
In this emotional and spirited adddress, Begin describes 12 days of difficult behind-the-scenes negotiations at Camp David that finally produced the accord.
"Let my right hand forget its cunning before I sign such a document," Begin recalls telling President Jimmy Carter, who, together with the Egyptians, wanted Israel to agree to the "inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war" and relinquish the Golan Heights. In riveting fashion, Begin describes a pivotal, private conversation with Carter during the negotiations and defends Israel's capture of land through "legitimate wars of self-defense."
He also talks of the safety and security of Israel and Jerusalem, unity among Israelis, the eradication of poverty, and peace between Jews and Arabs. "Let us give the Palestinian Arabs autonomy and the Palestinian Jews security, and we shall live together in human dignity, in equality of rights, in human progress. There will be justice. And we shall together advance," says Begin, to rousing applause.
Only days after Begin's death in March 1992, my late father, Rabbi Jacob Twersky, found a recording of this speech in his study. Days later, I broadcast this address in its entirety on radio station WEVD-NY.
In the year 2000, the Twersky family donated this rare recording to the Jerusalem-based Menachem Begin Heritage Center--which did not yet have this historic address among its vast archives. Center Director Harry Hurwitz, long-time Begin aide and confidante, assisted in the editing of this transcript."
-----> Basically we've been saying the same thing for 25 years but nobody's listening.
That link is the text of the speech. Here is the background:
"The 'Lost Speech'
By Mordechai I. Twersky
The following is a transcript of an address by Menachem Begin on Sept. 20, 1978--delivered three days after the historic Camp David Accords were signed with Egypt.
The speech was given before an audience of about 2,000 American Jewish leaders and guests of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in the grand ballroom of the Americana Hotel in New York City.
In this emotional and spirited adddress, Begin describes 12 days of difficult behind-the-scenes negotiations at Camp David that finally produced the accord.
"Let my right hand forget its cunning before I sign such a document," Begin recalls telling President Jimmy Carter, who, together with the Egyptians, wanted Israel to agree to the "inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war" and relinquish the Golan Heights. In riveting fashion, Begin describes a pivotal, private conversation with Carter during the negotiations and defends Israel's capture of land through "legitimate wars of self-defense."
He also talks of the safety and security of Israel and Jerusalem, unity among Israelis, the eradication of poverty, and peace between Jews and Arabs. "Let us give the Palestinian Arabs autonomy and the Palestinian Jews security, and we shall live together in human dignity, in equality of rights, in human progress. There will be justice. And we shall together advance," says Begin, to rousing applause.
Only days after Begin's death in March 1992, my late father, Rabbi Jacob Twersky, found a recording of this speech in his study. Days later, I broadcast this address in its entirety on radio station WEVD-NY.
In the year 2000, the Twersky family donated this rare recording to the Jerusalem-based Menachem Begin Heritage Center--which did not yet have this historic address among its vast archives. Center Director Harry Hurwitz, long-time Begin aide and confidante, assisted in the editing of this transcript."
-----> Basically we've been saying the same thing for 25 years but nobody's listening.