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iandhr

(6,852 posts)
Tue Sep 27, 2016, 10:33 PM Sep 2016

Shimon Peres Dies at 93; Built Up Israel’s Defense and Sought Peace

Source: NY TIMES

Shimon Peres, one of the last surviving pillars of Israel’s founding generation, who did more than anyone to build up his country’s formidable military might, then worked as hard to establish a lasting peace with Israel’s Arab neighbors, died on Wednesday in a Tel Aviv area hospital. He was 93.

His death was reported by The Jerusalem Post and confirmed by an official who did not want to speak publicly until the family made an announcement.

Mr. Peres died just over two weeks after suffering a stroke. Doctors kept him largely unconscious and on a breathing tube since then in hopes that it would give his brain a chance to heal. But he deteriorated as the nation he once led watched his last battle play out publicly and leaders from around the world sent wishes for his recovery.

As prime minister (twice); as minister of defense, foreign affairs, finance and transportation; and, until 2014, as president, Mr. Peres never left the public stage during Israel’s seven decades.


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A great man. May his memory be a blessing.
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Shimon Peres Dies at 93; Built Up Israel’s Defense and Sought Peace (Original Post) iandhr Sep 2016 OP
Yes he was, along with Rabin still_one Sep 2016 #1
My condolences to his family and the people of Israel elmac Sep 2016 #2
May his memory be eternal. Behind the Aegis Sep 2016 #3
May he be remembered leftynyc Sep 2016 #4
A great man. Mc Mike Sep 2016 #5
A fair minded leader The Wizard Sep 2016 #6
R.I.P. He and King Hussein of Jordan BumRushDaShow Sep 2016 #7
Shimon Peres supported war cpwm17 Sep 2016 #8
The Nobel Peace Prize 1994 - Shimon Peres quote oberliner Sep 2016 #10
The list of world leaders attending the leftynyc Sep 2016 #9
 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
4. May he be remembered
Wed Sep 28, 2016, 04:45 AM
Sep 2016

As a true man of peace. He was a giant. It hurts my heart that he is longer with us.

BumRushDaShow

(127,310 posts)
7. R.I.P. He and King Hussein of Jordan
Wed Sep 28, 2016, 06:59 AM
Sep 2016

had jointly received the Liberty Medal here in Philly back in 1996 -



http://constitutioncenter.org/liberty-medal/recipients/king-hussein-shimon-peres

He was probably one of the, if not the last of the old guard.

 

cpwm17

(3,829 posts)
8. Shimon Peres supported war
Wed Sep 28, 2016, 07:24 AM
Sep 2016

but in the US, murdering and stealing from Arabs, and selling weapons to apartheid South Africa is not held against you.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
10. The Nobel Peace Prize 1994 - Shimon Peres quote
Wed Sep 28, 2016, 10:59 AM
Sep 2016

"War, as a means of conducting human affairs, is in its death throes and the time has come to bury it."

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