Ehud Barak, for\u00admer Israeli Prime Min\u00adis\u00adter and Stan\u00adford grad, spoke in Memo\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal Audi\u00adto\u00adri\u00adum last night.<\/p>\n
Read the school paper\u2019s write-up<\/a>, which con\u00adtains sev\u00ader\u00adal inter\u00adest\u00ading anec\u00addotes, such as this one about how Barak, who served in the Israeli Defense Force for over 30 years and is often described as Israel\u2019s most dec\u00ado\u00adrat\u00aded sol\u00addier, illus\u00adtrat\u00aded the need for ruth\u00adless resolve as he recount\u00aded some of his most mem\u00ado\u00adrable oper\u00ada\u00adtions against Pales\u00adtin\u00adian mil\u00adi\u00adtants. He told the audi\u00adence about a suc\u00adcess\u00adful raid he led on a hijacked air\u00adplane, and he described the exe\u00adcu\u00adtion of a Hamas leader he car\u00adried out while dis\u00adguised as a female brunette \u2014 \u201cwith every\u00adthing in place,\u201d he laughed, ges\u00adtur\u00ading toward his chest.<\/i><\/p>\n of course, such an event could not pass with\u00adout protest<\/a> (albeit peace\u00adful)<\/p>\n and in an inter\u00adview before\u00adhand he made an obser\u00adva\u00adtion that I found par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adly rel\u00ade\u00advant to my call\u00ading as a cam\u00adpus mis\u00adsion\u00adary: Though Barak ulti\u00admate\u00adly left his mark on the world not through acad\u00ade\u00admia but rather through the mil\u00adi\u00adtary and pol\u00adi\u00adtics, he said that he con\u00adsid\u00aders uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adties to be at the fore\u00adfront of inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal lead\u00ader\u00adship. <\/i><\/p>\n \u201cSome\u00adhow, the uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty is the place where the lead\u00ader\u00adship of the future in all areas of life is formed,\u201d he said. \u201cSince the best and the bright\u00adest are com\u00ading through \u2026 these insti\u00adtu\u00adtions, they have a great influ\u00adence on the lead\u00ader\u00adship of this nation and nations as a whole.\u201d<\/b> (source<\/a> uni\u00adver\u00adsal remote divx<\/a><\/em> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" for\u00admer Israeli prime min\u00adis\u00adter and Stan\u00adford grad pon\u00adtif\u00adi\u00adcates at Stan\u00adford\u2019s Memo\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal Audi\u00adto\u00adri\u00adum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}