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Peres in Argentina: Ahmadinejad, Chavez will fall
Nov 17th, 2009 - Haaretz
President Shimon Peres predicted on Tuesday that the people of Venezuela and Iran will make their leaders disappear before too long. Speaking at a forum in Argentina, Peres said both Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have gone crazy over oil...
Yossi Sarid / Abbas must unilaterally declare Palestinian state
Nov 12th, 2009 - Haaretz
It is precisely now that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas must not give up hope, and not because of the sweet nothings that Shimon Peres uttered at the rally in the square last Saturday night about people giving up hope in Ramallah...
Brazil's Lula: It's Too Early To Cast Blame For Blackout
Nov 11th, 2009 - Wall Street Journal
BRASILIA (Dow Jones)--Moving to deflect criticism over a massive blackout that affected 18 of Brazil's 26 states late Tuesday, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva urged...
Peres: Brazil needs loud voice against terror
Nov 10th, 2009 - Forbes
BRASILIA, Brazil -- Israel's president called Tuesday on Brazil, where Iran's president will be welcomed in less than two weeks, to raise its voice against the "terror" he accused Tehran of supporting. In an address to Brazilian lawmakers...
Peres: Don’t give up on peace process
Nov 8th, 2009 - Boston
ISRAEL TEL AVIV - Israel's president yesterday called on Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to rescind his decision to stand down, invoking the memory of Yitzhak Rabin at a public commemoration for the assassinated Israeli premier...
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- Turkish PM Erdogan Slams...With English Translation Fair Use Policy, Source: World Economic Forum The Turkish prime minister, Mr. Erdogan, stormed out of a heated debate at the World Economic Forum in Davos after slamming the position of Israeli President, Mr ...
- Frost over the World-Israel...As Israelis celebrate the 60th anniversary of the creation of their state, Sir David Frost looks back at the events of 1948 and the ongoing Palestinian/Israeli conflict. He talks to some of ...
Shimon Peres from WikiPedia:
Shimon Peres (help·info) (Hebrew: ????? ????, born Szymon Perski on 2 August 1923) is the ninth and current President of the State of Israel. Peres served twice as Prime Minister of Israel and once as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years. Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and, except for a three-month-long hiatus in early 2006, served continuously until 2007, when he became President. In November 2008 he was presented with an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II.
Born in Wiszniewo, in Poland (now Belarus) in 1923, Peres moved with his family to Mandatory Palestine in 1934. He held several diplomatic and military positions during and directly after Israel's War of Independence.
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