text: To my mind , though , Jewish toughness of the sort that was in evidence in Entebbe , Uganda , 22 years ago , when armed Jews flew thousands of miles to rescue Jewish innocents from death , was one of the great moments in post-Holocaust Jewish history--a statement to the world that Jews will no longer sit idly by and watch themselves being oppressed .
  
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  Armed Jews rescued thousands of innocent people in Entebbe , Uganda .