Is this why Gilad Schalit is still in captivity?
That’s right. When Schalit was abducted, the government didn’t go out on a rescue mission; it went to the media. This is the country that executed the Entebbe raid in 1976. When did the shift occur? Toward the end of the Rabin era. Until Rabin, all our prime ministers ended their terms in a three-room apartment with a mortgage. From Rabin on, we began to see Americanization setting in. It’s a new generation of leaders – which may be good for Europe and America, but not for Israel. What difference does it make if a leader has money? You sound like Ehud Barak’s critics, who are now accusing him of being rich, as though it were some kind of crime. Ehud Barak is a personal friend of mine. I think of him as someone with a lot of credit in this country. I’m talking about phenomena, not about specific people. Something happened to Israel. We lost something. What did we lose? Our way. We forgot that we’re right. How did we forget that? Israel bases its existence today on the economy. That’s th
