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Shimon Peres, The Man Who Would Be President

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imjudy says:

June 3, 2007 at 6:33 AM

Shimon Peres was the prime architect of the Oslo Agreements and gets the credit for everything that has since come out of it. I believe he was also the first in the Labor Party to demand that Israel give up the Golan Heights. I would think that you would support him. Why don’t you?

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Richard Silverstein says:

June 3, 2007 at 11:50 PM

Shimon Peres was the prime architect of the Oslo Agreements and gets the credit for everything that has since come out of it.

Yossi Beilin conceived & executed Oslo with the help of other then Labor Party leaders. Beilin was a trusted aide of Peres at the time (though they have long since drifted apart politically). Peres no doubt supported Beilin’s efforts. But to assign credit to Peres is a misstatement of facts.

I strongly doubt that Peres was the “first” in Labor to demand return of the Golan. I’d like to see a source supporting this claim before I concede it is true.

I have already written about my feelings about Shimon Peres in this blog & don’t want to write everything a 2nd time. Basically, Peres was a formidable figure at one time both for good and bad within Israeli politics. Without Peres, there likely would never have been a strong settler movement. This is one of his worst contributions. But earlier in his career he was a valuable political figure who represented positive political values.

He has long since ceased serving such a function. He is now a political opportunist who has no definable political agenda or specific set of values. He is a survivalist who clutches for power because that is how he defines his worth. He no longer defines his worth by achieving a specific goal or agenda like an I-P peace agreement. All this is most unfortunate & renders him irrelevant to Israel’s present & future.

In addition, Colette Avital is a youngish, vibrant progressive Labor party leader whom I admire.

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david bernstein says:

June 6, 2007 at 3:21 AM

good joke!

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