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Truth vs. Darkness in the United Nations
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Shevat 15, 5771 · January 20, 2011
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Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel
Schneerson, of righteous memory. (Photo: Lubavitch Archives) |
I became Israel's ambassador to the United Nations in 1984.
Shortly afterwards, I had a visitor in my office in New York. I was
told that there was a young gentleman who wanted to see me. He said he
knew me.
He came in and there was this strapping chassid, with a beard and payos [side locks].
I said to him, "Do I know you?"
"Bibi, you don't know me? It's Shmarya!"
Shmarya was a member of Shomer Hatzair. He had been a very fine soldier of mine; I was his commander. As you can understand, I hadn't seen him in a few years.
He said, "Well, you see, I have become a Lubavitcher, and the Rebbe wants to see you."
"The Rebbe wants to see me?! Okay, let's go see him."
He said, "It's not so simple."
This was the eve of Simchat Torah.
"We'll go [tomorrow] tonight," he said.
I said, "Seven, eight o'clock?"
"No," he said. "At 12 o'clock I will pick you up."
Midnight!
Alright, he picked me up, and we came to that famous address, 770
Eastern Parkway, a replica of a house that we have near Ben-Gurion
airport....
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