Results for “Shimon Perez”

… things, such as trust and happiness. It is very expressive; you can see the more guarded postures of Yasser Arafat and Shimon Pérez below, just after they negotiated a landmark peace deal. Can you tell if the leaders smiles are false? Communication Communication is one of mank...

whom he called “Shimon’s poodle’. And he deeply distrusted

strength and sensitivity. Shimon Peres is that man.”

Shimon seemed to convey the sense that merely being in the

developed by Shimon Ullman and others. Makes sense

…re violence. To assume that if we just sat back we would win seemed to me complacent and risky. Yet when I mentioned to Shimon that a couple of our internal polls still actually had Bibi slightly ahead, he just laughed. “I have good polls,” he said. ““Why should I believe the bad...

…nt had asked whether I'd like to join him on the flight back to Israel. Though as surprised as I was by the invitation, Shimon nodded at me to signal it was okay, so I headed off for Air Force One. I spent most of the brief flight talking to the President in the office space carv...

…rever you want. Bring me suggestions by seven tomorrow morning.” Then, he said, we would go brief the Defense Minister, Shimon Peres. I assembled a team the same way we’d prepared for special-operations missions in the sayeret: looking for information, intelligence and above all...

…onit Farm, north of Herzliya. It was how weddings are meant to be, full of smiles, good food and dancing. Near the end, Shimon showed up. As he walked over to greet us, one guest after another shook his hand, patted him on the back, hugged him, wished him luck. It was as if all t...

…ried not to pay too much attention to newspaper polls during the campaign, perhaps because even the “good” ones, to use Shimon’s phrase, had me with just a narrow lead, with Yitzhik Mordechai’s 10 or 11 percent still likely to prevent outright victory in the first round. But in t...

OUP CORRECTED PROOE - FINAL, 12/9/2014, SPi Chronology xxvii 13 June 2007 Shimon Peres is elected President of Israel by the Knesset. 14 June 2007 President Abbas dismisses Prime Minister Haniyeh and declares a state of emergency. 15 June 2007 Hamas takes control over the Gaz...

…rever you want. Bring me suggestions by seven tomorrow morning.” Then, he said, we would go brief the Defense Minister, Shimon Peres. I assembled a team the same way we’d prepared for special-operations missions in the sayeret: looking for information, intelligence and above all...

Erdogan publicly berated Israeli Ppresident Shimon Peres

I was struck that Shimon seemed resigned to the election defeat

by what he’d said. Shimon was now nearly 73. He’d had a life in our