An excerpt from: "A better tomorrow"
by Ehud Barak
(Reprinted from The Jerusalem Post, April 23, 1999)
�As the state enters its 52nd year, I wish to congratulate my fellow Israelis: Jews, Arabs, Druse, Circassians and Bedouins, new immigrants and those who inhabited this land for centuries. I wish all of us, first and foremost, peace and security. We were so close to fulfilling the dream of peace. The one goal that eludes us, the one goal that the founding fathers of Israel set but we failed to attain. "
"But peace and security should not, and cannot, be measured only in military or diplomatic terms. Investing more and expanding the definition of education is national security. Reducing unemployment is national security. Lowering the unacceptable and horrid poverty line figures is national security. Infrastructure is security.�
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