Shimon Peres citations

Shimon Peres , né Szymon Perski le 2 août 1923 à Wiszniew et mort le 28 septembre 2016 à Ramat Gan , est un homme d'État israélien.

Après une carrière diplomatique entamée après la guerre d'indépendance israélienne, il devient haut fonctionnaire au service du gouvernement israélien comme directeur adjoint, puis directeur général du ministère de la Défense entre 1953 et 1959. Après cette période, il commence une longue carrière politique.

Successivement membre du Mapaï, du Rafi, de l'Alignement, du Parti travailliste et de Kadima, il siège comme ministre au sein de douze gouvernements, ce qui lui confère une longévité inédite. Il occupe à trois reprises la fonction de Premier ministre . Respecté à l'étranger, Shimon Peres a reçu, avec Yasser Arafat et Yitzhak Rabin, le prix Nobel de la paix 1994 pour sa participation aux pourparlers de paix avec les Palestiniens qui menèrent aux accords d'Oslo.

Soutenu par Kadima, il est élu à la présidence de l'État d'Israël à l'issue de l'élection présidentielle de juin 2007, devenant ainsi le premier ancien chef du gouvernement désigné chef de l'État dans l'histoire d'Israël. Il prête serment le 15 juillet 2007 pour un mandat de sept ans à l'issue duquel, le 24 juillet 2014, il met un terme à sa carrière politique, à près de 91 ans.

Après la mort d'Ariel Sharon, Shimon Peres était le dernier survivant de la génération des pères fondateurs de l'État d'Israël. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. août 1923 – 28. septembre 2016
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Shimon Peres: Citations en anglais

“If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent — that's good enough.”

As quoted in "Peres: Suspicion over Israeli nukes is good deterrent", Ynetnews (1 September 2007) http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3444458,00.html

“The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.”

Remarks 8 May 2006, as quoted in "Iran can also be wiped off the map", in The Jerusalem Post (9 May 2006) http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1145961301962

“India represents the new world in a unique sense. Traditionally democracies were trying to bring equality to all walks of life, today there is a change. Democracy wants to enable every country to have the equal right to be different; it's a collection of differences, not an attempt to force or impose equality on every country. I think India is the greatest show of how so many differences in language, in sects can coexist facing great suffering and keeping full freedom… Many of the countries in the Middle East should learn from you how to escape poverty. You didn't escape poverty by getting American dollars or Russian Roubles but by introducing your own internal reforms and by understanding that the new call of modernity is science. In between the spiritual wealth of Gandhi and the earthly wisdom of Nehru, you combined a great performance of spirit and practice to escape poverty…I know you still have a long way to go but you do it without compromising freedom. The temptation when you're such a large country to introduce discipline and imposition is great but you tried to do it, to make progress not with force and discipline but in an open way. Many of us were educated on the literature of India when we fell in love we read Rabindranath Tagore and when we matured we tried to understand Gandhi.”

Israeli President Shimon Peres praises India as greatest 'show of co-existence' http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-12-04/news/35594466_1_greatest-show-mahatma-gandhi-democracies (4 December 2012)

“I will confine myself to reaffirming the Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons to the region.”

As quoted in "Shimon Peres: 'Sanctions on Iran could work'" in Le Figaro (26 July 2007) http://www.lefigaro.fr/english/20070726.WWW000000384_shimon_peres_sanctions_on_iran_could_work_.html

“Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently. I prefer to live as an optimist.”

As quoted in Serving "60 Years to Life", Newsweek Europe (12 December 2005)

“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.”

As quoted by Donald Rumsfeld in "Sharon's Victory" (link is to a preview, but the quote is in the first few visible lines) https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB981508176687515426, Wall Street Journal (7 February 2001)

“India and Israel are co-operating on security and intelligence matters because we have a common enemy: terrorism.”

Rahul Bedi, Israel and India draw Closer, 14 March 2002, http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jir/jir020314_1_n.shtml https://web.archive.org/web/20080212170448/http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jir/jir020314_1_n.shtml

“Iran is a great problem, but not necessarily a great country. In fact, I think it is a very weak country.”

As quoted in "Israel's Shimon Peres Calls Iran Weak", Comcast (29 November 2006) http://www.comcast.net/news/international/index.jsp?cat=INTERNATIONAL&fn=/2006/11/29/531290.html

“The way to make peace is not through governments. It is through people.”

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2017-01-18/debates/89C645E3-674E-488C-8223-D4C20634C1ED/PromotionOfIsraeli-PalestinianPeace(UnitedKingdomParticipation)?highlight=joan%20ryan%20israel#contribution-5AAC9F18-D1E8-49F2-9352-430D75AFDFDA

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