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In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.

Shimon Peres

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Shimon Peres
Age: 93 †
Born: 1923
Born: August 16
Died: 2016
Died: September 28
Poet
Politician
President Of Israel
Writer
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Szymon Perski
Peres
Middle
Culture
Today
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Cultures
East
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Generations

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Most of the Palestinians don't understand what they're doing... Politically, people can say what they want. The problem is not political, but religious.
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Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.
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The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.
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Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.
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One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do.
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Iran is a great problem, but not necessarily a great country. In fact, I think it is a very weak country.
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It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.
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Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.
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Israel's doors are open to collaboration with Bulgaria.
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We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.
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Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
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Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.
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I do not know anybody that is threatening Iran. It is a safe country.
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I think today you can move ahead working with global companies more than with national governments.
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What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.
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We have to be reasonable people.
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In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.
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Can any church help us to win a war? If you can't help us win a war, then please don't press us.
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Polls are like perfume-nice to smell, dangerous to swallow.
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Today, Israel is stronger than ever. Israel has defensive tools of its own - those developed in the past and those developed today and those that will be developed tomorrow.
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