Defense Minister Ehud Barak :'We won't outsource our fate, not even to our closest allies'.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak :'We won't outsource our fate, not even to our closest allies'.(IH).Defense Minister Ehud Barak :'We won't outsource our fate, not even to our closest allies'.In the collective Jewish consciousness, Yom Kippur carries a profound significance, but for the members of that particular generation, the one that was there in 1973, this day is marred by a heavy shadow — the shadow of the Yom Kippur War. This week, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, currently visiting the U.S., recalls those days, and confesses that "in the end, everything starts from the personal things." Barak was attending Stanford University in California when he heard about the outbreak of war. He immediately flew back to Israel and commanded an impromptu armored corps battalion, assembled specifically for the war. In this capacity, Barak commanded over many additional soldiers who had returned from abroad, as he did.
"The clock is ticking differently because the options we have for actions are more limited than those of the Americans. Israel doesn't have some of the resources that the U.S. has. Therefore, from our standpoint, when the Iranians dig even deeper and build even more fortified facilities and amass more centrifuges, they are posing more immediate obstacles for us than for the U.S. That is the whole story."Read the full story here.