If you know about Operation Entebbe, then there is nothing mind blowing for you here, so I will suggest to end your reading here (with a usual visit again smile). But in case you don’t know anything about this, here is a story:
My job asks me to interact with more number of Israelis and past one year have given me all the possible opportunities to understand why they are called the most intelligent brains in the world. Their views, imaginatively, perception and quest to know are the things that for which this breed is known for. But what I didn’t know of them till last Wednesday was of their good sense of humor and sheer courage and bravery.
Well it all started with a normal conversation that day, and here are the extracts:
I [3:37 pm]:
Well for that you need to walk down a 1000 mile to India and find me in a population of 1.2 Billion.
He [3:37 pm]:
Well, You don’t worry of this. I will do an Operation Entebbe and will find you.
And by 3:38 pm I was all in Google looking what on earth is this Operation Entebbe. And as started knowing more on this, the more I started looking into it. Anyway, after a good 10 min I replied back stupidly with “HAHAHAHAHA”. Saale in isrealion ke joke samajne ke liye bhi google karna padta hai :)
For those who are still reading this and want me to pour the details of this here, I would rather provide a brief of the things and links to all I have read on it.
Operation Entebbe was a counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by the Special Forces of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976. A week earlier, on 27 June, an Air France plane with 248 passengers was hijacked by Palestinian and German terrorists and flown to Entebbe, near Kampala, the capital of Uganda.
Here is the link to wiki, a series of documentary on YouTube, and a beautiful movie on the theme. Go and have a look on them.
Welcome Back. No ‘m not going to say a word over the political correctness of the proceeding nor will I try to draw any parallel between “The Kandhar Episode” of India. I don’t want to jump into the mess, but to simply celebrate the courage and determination of a small nation like Israel. All I want to appreciate is level of perfection of Intelligence (Mossad, it is known as), dare-devil act from commandos 14000 mile away from their place and a near zero causality successful rescue operation.
Before I drop my pen, I leave you with the most influential lines I read in the course. These were said by the Ambassador of Israel in Security Council post to the operation:
We come with a simple message to the Council: we are proud of what we have done because we have demonstrated to the world that a small country, in Israel's circumstances, with which the members of this Council are by now all too familiar, the dignity of man, human life and human freedom constitute the highest values. We are proud not only because we have saved the lives of over a hundred innocent people—men, women and children—but because of the significance of our act for the cause of human freedom.
- Chaim Herzog
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