Good afternoon. Welcome to the washington institute. Im delighted to welcome you all to the postlabor day gathering, a celebration, celebration of the publication of this this timely, important new book by my colleagues. When youre a leader and you get your face chiseled into Mount Rushmore or your picture on a coin, its not because you did nothing during your time in office. Its not because you waited out the term. Its because you took Big Decisions that affected the fate of your nation, often at moments of great crisis. Often decisions that were unpopular or that risked that this would be your last term in office. But decisions that reflected your vision about the direction of your nation and your people. And if you made it to rushmore or if you made it on a coin, its because decades later your people looked back and said, thank you for having the boldness, for having the courage to take those decisions. Israel today is remarkably a strong, selfconfident country for many reasons far
Good afternoon and welcome to the Washington Institute im delighted to welcome youut all to this post labor day gathering, a celebration of the publication of this timely, important new book by my colleagues. When you are a leader and you get your face chiseled into Mount Rushmore is not because you did nothing during your time in office. Or you waited out the term, it is because those were the decisions that affected the fate of the nation often at moments of great crisis often decisions that were unpopular or that risked this would be your last from an office. But decisions that reflected your vision of the vision of the people and if you made it to rushmore or on a coin it is n because decades later your people look back and said thank you. To have the boldness and courage to take those decisions and remarkably a strong selfconfident country for many reasons its too complicated to go into them just for this event but to be blessed with rushmore leadership from the founding of the st
Good afternoon. Welcome to the washington institute. Im delighted to welcome you all to the postlabor day gathering, a celebration, celebration of the publication of this this timely, important new book by my colleagues. When youre a leader and you get your face chiseled into Mount Rushmore or your picture on a coin, its not because you did nothing during your time in office. Its not because you waited out the term. Its because you took Big Decisions that affected the fate of your nation, often at moments of great crisis. Often decisions that were unpopular or that risked that this would be your last term in office. But decisions that reflected your vision about the direction of your nation and your people. And if you made it to rushmore or if you made it on a coin, its because decades later your people looked back and said, thank you for having the boldness, for having the courage to take those decisions. Israel today is remarkably a strong, selfconfident country for many reasons far
Day gathering and a celebration of this timely important new book by my colleagues. When you are a leader and your faces chiseled into Mount Rushmore and your picture on a coin its not because you did nothing during your time in office. But because you took Big Decisions affecting the state of the nation at moments of great crisis with decisions that were unpopular or risked that this would be your last term in office. Such reflected the vision and if you made it to rushmore or if you made it on a coin is because decades later people look back and said thank you for making those decisions and israel today remarkably strong for many reasons. And far too complicated to go into all of them that was blessed with leadership all the way over the past 70 years in those moments and that is in a nutshell with this book is all about. Of those leaders who rose to the occasion head on and to remind us and that rushmore like leadership will rise again to help the people with those questions. There
and risked fuelling starvation in poorer nations. the guardian has a photo of the tributes in the south korean capital seoul, where 150 people were killed yesterday in a crush at a halloween festival. let me bring it our guests. good to have you with us. i want to begin with that very poignant photo on the front of the guardian. raphael rashid wrote the article, he quoted, outside it was chaos, i couldn t move. shyama, when you read this story, what are you thinking? i’m story, what are you thinking? i m “ust story, what are you thinking? in just thinking how desperately sad it is. what else is it possible to think? i have children. yesterday shortly after the story broke, i had a 31 year old dressed as a witch, bright red flowers, lace all done up, whatever, going out to celebrate in peckham. halloween has become such a big thing around the world. all of us who have kids, it doesn t matter whether they are three years old or 30 years old, they are out celebrating. the id