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...same day that Hamas terrorists murdered Nachshon Waxman, a joint American and Israeli citizen, a committee in Sweden announced its decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chair Yasaer Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. In so doing the committee reinforced and validated a dangerous misconception about the meaning of the word "peace...
Left off the roster for the $930,000 award were Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, PLO bigwig Mahmoud Abbas and the Norwegian peace brokers who sweated over the deal. Oh, and, of course, Jimmy Carter...
...level diplomatic relations come after years of sketchy and often secret ties between the Jewish state and the North African country. Specifics of the arrangement sound a lot like the Israel-Jordan peace accord, with a strong focus on business interests. That's not surprising: Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said the breakthrough came in part because Morocco, like Jordan, wants to join the march toward regional economic cooperation...
...scene was novel -- and euphoric: Israel's Foreign Minister Shimon Peres sitting at a table near the Dead Sea on the Jordanian side of the border last week across from his counterpart from Amman, Prime Minister Abdul Salam Majali. Meeting for the first time publicly on Jordanian territory, the two men started talking about taking practical steps that would all but end the state of war that has existed between their two countries since...
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said Saturday: "Assad had the possibility to be either first or last (in the peace process). And when he lost the option to be first it seems to me that the option that interests him is to be last...