Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres; Hebrew: שמעון פרס; born Szymon Perski; 2 August 1923) is a Polish-born Israeli statesman. He was the ninth President of Israel from 2007 to 2014. Peres served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel and twice as Interim Prime Minister, and he was 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,...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth2 August 1923
CountryIsrael
My goal is to make peace and it doesn't matter with which party.
A man that combines moral foundations with intellectual talents. And serves a cause. He becomes uninteresting the minute he becomes self-concerned. Then it's a waste of greatness not greatness.
Nobody knows, but I would say a matter of years.
I think today you can move ahead working with global companies more than with national governments.
I don't know if it has any chance of success. But it is something we must say. I don't think it is a matter of what one thinks is worthwhile or not. This is intolerable,
I see an opportunity that we must not miss.
Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.
Can any church help us to win a war? If you can't help us win a war, then please don't press us.
I think there needs to be change in Syria,
I am a president who also gives pardons. Usually my considerations are humane.
Governments have budgets but no money, companies have money but no budgets.
It can't happen as long as there is still shooting. Either there is shooting or there are talks,
Peace is something that needs continuous cultivating and unending dialogue, ... At Oslo it was agreed to clarify all the issues by way of dialogue at the negotiating table, without the interference of terror and violence, and that is the way to act.
President Abbas and myself, we are the ones who signed the Oslo agreement, so we really know each other, not just theoretically.