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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.

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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The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.
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Israel is moving from the realm of poetry to the realm of prose.
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Polls are like perfume-nice to smell, dangerous to swallow.
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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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I don't know what is stronger or what is weaker.The whole language of strength and weaknesses is irrelevant,because when you use arms you do not use ballots, and public opinion is unimportant, and they shoot at their opponents.
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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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In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.
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It's a morality that keeps humans human.
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Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.
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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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Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.
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[Hamas] thought that if you go to elections you become a democrat for the rest of your life. They think that democracy is limited to one day in four years.
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I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.
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Hamas married the Iranians. It was their choice. They are the same family.
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Governments are based on power, companies are based on goodwill, which allows them to invest in the future.
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The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.
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Without freedom you cannot have real peace.
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