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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

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
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We had a lot of support - don't give me the world, just the televisions. In America we enjoy support,China is neutral, India is for, in Europe they're divided.
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Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
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Without freedom you cannot have real peace.
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In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.
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