Word: shimon
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Indeed, many Israelis fear this is only the beginning of a new terror offensive like the one last year that drove Labor Prime Minister Shimon Peres from office. Allowing even one bombing to happen, though, will boomerang harshly on the Palestinians. Israel immediately closed off the territories and promised retaliation; Netanyahu has always kept open the option of sending Israeli troops back into the areas now under Palestinian control. Even worse, he might decide to use the bombing as a pretext to abandon, once and for all, the talks he has always opposed...
...Stewart thinks that could change. "Israel is a nation whose identity rests largely on its security. But the crash occurred within Israel's borders, without any involvement from Lebanon or Syria," he said. "There is certain to be outrage over what, exactly, these soldiers died for." Former Prime Minister Shimon Peres said Tuesday that the lesson of the disaster was that Israel needed to pay the "price for peace" with Lebanon and Syria. While Stewart did not foresee any such immediate effect on Israeli policy, a withdrawal would be an important first step. As Israel mourns its sons, it remains...
...their own and jeopardize their hope to end years of illegal occupation and savage massacres because of an "innocuous, inconspicuous and wholly inoffensive tunnel?" Can anyone be truly convinced that Palestinian protest towards the irresponsible affairs of a more powerful state are only "hysterically paranoid comments?" Former prime minister Shimon Peres expressed his disappointment by saying that no Israeli mother he knows is willing to sacrifice her children for tourism, that nothing positive could come out of opening this project, and that a 2000-year-old tunnel could remain closed for a couple more years...
Mubarak: Israel will be accepted when it gives the Arabs all the rights. Under Rabin and Shimon Peres, it made very good steps forward with the Arabs. Since Mr. Netanyahu came, everything is frozen. Everything is frozen...
Avery Gardiner's statement that Sanders cannot be made secure is patently false; Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, Martin Luther King Jr. and many other VIPs have spoken there in the past...