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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
Peres
Peace
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Unsavory
Enemies
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Friends

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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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Without freedom you cannot have real peace.
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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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It's better to be controversial for the right reasons, than to be popular for the wrong reasons.
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The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.
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In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.
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I think today you can move ahead working with global companies more than with national governments.
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In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.
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Nothing had excited me-the huge cars, the entourages, the bodyguards, the policeman jumping to attention, all meant nothing to me ... till I came to the old man's office. (On becoming prime minister)
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Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.
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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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I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.
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I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.
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The Holocaust is a great warning to us all. We shall never forget our sisters and brothers. We have to ensure it is not repeated and to ensure we never go back to the days when humans behaved as beasts. Forgetfulness is a menace, we must remember.
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Palestinians are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle East under the command of the Iranians.
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The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
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Terrorists and murderers are so dangerous. We shouldn't fall victim to believe that they are immune.
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Israel is moving from the realm of poetry to the realm of prose.
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In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.
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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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