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” he said. He said we needed to focus on two
I joined other ministers and party officials with Peres
on Shimon. But I added: “It seems a bit too good to be true.”
even a Nazi. All because he had decided to try to make
what new diplomatic opportunities could he as president
he asked me questions: what were the prospects of
intelligent human being he’d ever met. He made no grand
he encouraged me to feel I had something of
and of the wider conflict in the Middle East. Looking straight at me
it was an extraordinarily fascinating 20
so I headed off for Air Force One. I spent most of the brief
beyond the aim of getting more votes than Bibi Netanyahu. Despite
leaving nearly 80 Israelis dead. The attacks had actually stopped
they began sending self-styled holy warriors to murder
the issue wasn’t just Israel’s capture of the West Bank
not to try to score political points –Peres’s reelection campaign seemed
and killed 13 people. At the bomb scenes
a 24-year-old Palestinian walked up to the entrance of Tel
1996. Yet that would turn out not to be the end of Peres’s