Shimon Peres
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"Shimon Peres" is a Polish-born Israeli statesman. He was the List of Presidents of Israel/ninth President of Israel from 2007 to 2014. Peres served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel and twice as Acting Prime Minister/Interim Prime Minister, and he was a member of 12 Cabinet of Israel/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.

He held several diplomatic and military positions during and directly after 1948 Arab–Israeli War/Israel's War of Independence. His first high-level government position was as Deputy Director-General of Defense in 1952, and Director-General from 1953 until 1959. During his career, he has represented five political parties in the Knesset: Mapai, Rafi (political party)/Rafi, the Alignment (political party)/Alignment, Labor Party (Israel)/Labor and Kadima, and has led Alignment and Labor. Peres won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize together with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat for the peace talks that he participated in as Israeli Foreign Minister, producing the Oslo Accords.

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There is no sense whatsoever to remain here. The settlements must be evacuated.

He restored the Bible to its people, he restored the people to the Bible.

[Another Palestinian official called the cease-fire declaration a] trick, ... I invite the Palestinians to use the same trick.

I'm sure that history will justify our choice.

The settlements must be evacuated; the settlers cannot remain.

It will be very difficult to continue with the peace process.

This is a country which proves that it can make a difficult decision, a democratic decision, without fear, and that it is not afraid of threats and protests, ... On the other hand, it's a democratic country, in the sense that we can also protest, and we can also weep.

If things emerge reasonably well in Gaza, then the door is open for further moves, wider decisions, ... have to take their own destinies in their own hand.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact- not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

Promoting fear in the nation.