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In many ways, the media today makes dictatorship impossible. But it also makes democracy intolerable.
Shimon Peres
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Shimon Peres
Age: 93 †
Born: 1923
Born: August 16
Died: 2016
Died: September 28
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President Of Israel
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Szymon Perski
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