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Extraction Summary
3
People
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Organizations
4
Locations
3
Events
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Relationships
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Quotes
Document Information
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Book excerpt / narrative / house oversight exhibit
File Size:
1.13 MB
Summary
The document appears to be a page (pg 49) from a memoir or autobiography stamped by the House Oversight Committee (Bates: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027897). The text describes the narrator's moral struggle regarding rumors that Israeli soldiers, including a mentor figure named Yigal, killed captured Egyptian soldiers at the Mitla Pass after an ambush. The narrator recounts a trip to Patish in 1959 and their imminent entry into army service. While extracted from a dataset potentially related to Epstein investigations (likely regarding associates like Ehud Barak), this specific page contains no direct references to Epstein, Maxwell, or financial crimes.
People (3)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Yigal | Mentor/Associate of narrator |
Person who participated in war events and took the narrator to Patish; avoided discussing the killing of prisoners.
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| Narrator (I) | Author |
Person reflecting on moral issues of war, preparing to join army service.
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| Narrator's Father | Kibbutz resident |
Consulted by the narrator regarding war rumors.
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Organizations (1)
| Name | Type | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Israeli Army / IDF |
Implied by 'army service', 'defending Israel', and military operations.
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Timeline (3 events)
Locations (4)
| Location | Context |
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Location of an Egyptian ambush and subsequent killing of captured soldiers.
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Location of a final trip taken by the narrator and Yigal in 1959.
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Country being defended.
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Home of the narrator and their father.
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Relationships (1)
Traveled to Patish together; narrator respected his courage and what he'd done for him growing up.
Key Quotes (3)
"No one of them told me it was a lie."Source
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Quote #1
"I didn’t need a lesson tohar haneshek to know that the killing of captured Egyptian soldiers should not have happened."Source
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Quote #2
"But what mattered now wasn’t what Yigal had done. It was what I would do, and how I would live my life."Source
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Quote #3
Full Extracted Text
Complete text extracted from the document (1,193 characters)
At least those were the rumors after the war. I asked friends what they were hearing. I asked some of the older men on the kibbutz, my father included. All of them responded with a slightly different version of events. But I knew what I wasn’t hearing. No one of them told me it was a lie. When I asked Yigal, he averted my glance, and then changed the subject. I knew it was true, at least broadly.
I realized that, before it happened, Yigal and the others had seen dozens of friends gunned down in an Egyptian ambush in the Mitla Pass. But I didn’t need a lesson tohar haneshek to know that the killing of captured Egyptian soldiers should not have happened. Or that it was plainly, simply wrong.
When Yigal and I made our final trip to Patish in 1959, I knew it would be pointless to ask him about it. Whatever he said wouldn’t change anything. I still respected his courage and his fighting spirit, and the part he’d played in defending Israel. I appreciated what he’d done for me as I grew up. But what mattered now wasn’t what Yigal had done. It was what I would do, and how I would live my life.
Especially since I, too, was about to begin my army service.
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