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...break Transjordan, bomb Amman and destroy its army; and then Syria falls; and if Egypt will still continue to fight, we will bombard Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo,” wrote Israel’s first prime minister, David...
...Labor, for years the leader of the government and once led by Israeli political giants such as Golda Meir, Rabin and Shimon Peres, won just 3.7 per cent of the ballots in last year’s election....
...Founding fathers like David Ben-Gurion and warrior statesmen such as Yitzhak Rabin used the word....
...david.gardner@ft.com...
...“The first question I asked him was, ‘Shimon, tell me, why do you live in Vienna, the heartland of anti-Semitism?’...
...david.gardner@ft.com An earlier reference in this article to HR McMaster as a former general was corrected to reflect that he is still a serving general....
...– How Shimon Peres brought inflation down in 1985. – How Mark Twain became a free trader....
...Where are Shimon Peres’ successors?”...
...A protégé of David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, Peres rose through a nascent defence establishment....
...– Larry Summers on Shimon Peres. – Five days that shaped the Obama presidency. – The risks to N Ireland under a hard Brexit....
...One man who has lived through Israel’s entire modern history — and played no small part in shaping it — is Shimon Peres, the 93-year-old former prime minister and president....
...By David Gardner a visionary a peacemaker for whom peace remained beyond reach Musk, Mars and the high price of manifest destiny....
...In music alone, within the first 10 days of 2016 both Pierre Boulez and David Bowie were gone....
...However, the then president Shimon Peres concluded Mr Netanyahu was better placed to form a government and handed the task to him....
...Hosted by David Davies MP. Glastonbury festival The 43rd Glastonbury Festival takes place in Somerset, with Arcade Fire, Metallica and Kasabian among the headliners. (Until June 29.)...
...David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker magazine and a friend of Plepler’s, has also been eating at the restaurant and appears at our table briefly to say hello....
...“With due respect to Kissinger, he is the most devious man I ever met,” said Shimon Peres, Israel’s former prime minister....
...The new government will be the third to be headed by Mr Netanyahu, who is already Israel’s second-longest-serving prime minister after David Ben Gurion, the country’s founding leader....
...US president Barack Obama and British prime minister David Cameron over the weekend discussed the need for what they called “a serious response” to last week’s deadly attack....
...Shimon Peres, Larry Summers and General David Petraeus were all there, offering their views on the future of Ukraine, the world, or indeed anything that anyone asked them about....
...He met Olmert and President Shimon Peres and addressed the Knesset. Gift: on his second trip, George W received an Israeli-made bicycle. Hotel: King David Hotel....
...In 1995, he joined the government of Yitzhak Rabin and later that of Shimon Peres, serving as interior minister and foreign minister....
...Politicians across the political spectrum, including Shimon Peres, Israel’s dovish president, said last week that the EU’s crackdown on settlements was poorly timed and would complicate efforts by John Kerry...
...By contrast, David Cameron, the British prime minister, received a cool reception....
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