Last night the Facing Tomorrow conference began
with their dreams.
The promised land must
become a land of promise, President Shimon Peres said Tuesday
night at his 90th birthday celebration, an event that also marked the
start of the fifth annual presidential conference, Facing Tomorrow.
Tomorrow has arrived, and
this is our reality this morning:
Sirens sound
in Ashkelon; 3 rockets fall in open areas.
They have proven Winston Churchill right yet again.
In the House of Commons, on May 2, 1935, he said:
“When the situation was manageable it was
neglected, and now that it is thoroughly out of hand, we apply the remedies
which then might have effected a cure. There is nothing new in the story.
It is as old as the Sibylline books. It falls into that long dismal catalogue
of the fruitlessness of experience and the confirmed unteachability of mankind.
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and
effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency
comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the
features which constitute the endless repetition of history."
