Word: perese
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Another off-the-cuff Peres remark elicitedoutright guffaws from audience members.
"Your look [like you're] in pretty goodshape--why not?" Peres replied.
"Are you at the Law School?" Peres asked. Afterthe student answered no, Peres launched into adefense of his country.
"The U.N. forbids any attack of one nationagainst another," Peres said. "Israel was legallycreated by the United Nations and was attacked byseven Arab nations [in the War of Independence inMay 1948]. Is that in accordance with the UNcharter?" he asked.
"He had to resort to lying," Razaq said laterof Peres' response. "He contradicted the historythat I learned at Harvard in History 1880."