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Battling for Peace:: A Memoir
Certain to fascinate anyone intrigued about the future of the Middle East, these revealing memoirs of Shimon Peres, former Israeli Minister of Defense and winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize, tell of his relationships with Golda Meir, David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Dayan, and others whom he encountered during his amazing career.
350 pages, Hardcover
First published May 10, 1995
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Shimon Peres
60 books49 followersPolish-Israeli political leader Shimon Peres served as prime minister from 1984 to 1986, negotiated with the Palestine liberation organization, therefore shared the Nobel Prize of 1994 for peace, and returned from 1995 to 1996.
Yasir Arafat shared the Nobel Prize of 1994 for peace with Yitzhak Rabin and Peres.
Shimon Peres, a statesman served as the ninth president from 2007 to 2014. Peres served twice as interim and as a member of 12 cabinets in a career, spanning more than 66 years. People elected Peres to the Knesset in November 1959 and continued except a three-month-long hiatus in early 2006 until 2007, when he held role of president for another seven years. He, the oldest head of state of the world at the time, retired in 2014. People considered this last link to founding generation.
From a young age, his brilliant oratory attracted renown. He began his career in the late 1940s and during and directly after war of independence held several diplomatic and military positions.
He attained his first high-level government position as deputy director-general of defense in 1952 at the age of 28 years and from 1953 served as director-general until 1959. In the 1950s, Anthony Eden of Britain described the protocol of Sèvres as the "highest form of statesmanship," and Peres took part.
Peres participated in the foreign talks that with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat produced the accords at Oslo.
During his career, he represented Mapai, Rafi, alignment, Labor, and Kadima parties in the Knesset. In his private life, he, a poet, wrote stanzas during cabinet meetings and later turned some poems into songs. From prophets of Old Testament, French literature, and Chinese philosophy, he as a result of his deep interests ably quoted with equal ease.
Following a massive stroke and two weeks of hospitalization at the Sheba medical center near Tel-Aviv, Peres died.
Yasir Arafat shared the Nobel Prize of 1994 for peace with Yitzhak Rabin and Peres.
Shimon Peres, a statesman served as the ninth president from 2007 to 2014. Peres served twice as interim and as a member of 12 cabinets in a career, spanning more than 66 years. People elected Peres to the Knesset in November 1959 and continued except a three-month-long hiatus in early 2006 until 2007, when he held role of president for another seven years. He, the oldest head of state of the world at the time, retired in 2014. People considered this last link to founding generation.
From a young age, his brilliant oratory attracted renown. He began his career in the late 1940s and during and directly after war of independence held several diplomatic and military positions.
He attained his first high-level government position as deputy director-general of defense in 1952 at the age of 28 years and from 1953 served as director-general until 1959. In the 1950s, Anthony Eden of Britain described the protocol of Sèvres as the "highest form of statesmanship," and Peres took part.
Peres participated in the foreign talks that with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat produced the accords at Oslo.
During his career, he represented Mapai, Rafi, alignment, Labor, and Kadima parties in the Knesset. In his private life, he, a poet, wrote stanzas during cabinet meetings and later turned some poems into songs. From prophets of Old Testament, French literature, and Chinese philosophy, he as a result of his deep interests ably quoted with equal ease.
Following a massive stroke and two weeks of hospitalization at the Sheba medical center near Tel-Aviv, Peres died.
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August 28, 2019
Peres' book , first of all has a strange title, considering the 2000 year wars that Israel, both ancient and modern have been involved in.
The history in this book is intriguing. This is a man with a clearly deep understanding of how the modern-day Israel came to be established, and how (relative to its size) it became a fairly powerful political and economic country. The guys in Oslo saw it fit to give him a Nobel Peace Prize, but that is not usually a great indicator. I mean, they gave F.W De Klerk one too.
The history in this book is intriguing. This is a man with a clearly deep understanding of how the modern-day Israel came to be established, and how (relative to its size) it became a fairly powerful political and economic country. The guys in Oslo saw it fit to give him a Nobel Peace Prize, but that is not usually a great indicator. I mean, they gave F.W De Klerk one too.
August 7, 2021
I most definitely would not have voted for him after reading this . He depicts himself as so lily white and so despised by others, then takes every opportunity to denigrate even those who supported him.
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