Peres also hasn't forgotten the shopworn, hollow old slogans about Israel's yearning for peace, slogans for which one might still find dubious buyers only occasionally in America.
Israel yearns for "peace with all peoples, with all Arab states .... No more war, no more destruction, no more hatred," he recited, as is his wont, at the conference of the right-wing Jewish propaganda lobby, AIPAC. Peres feels at home there, of course.
With its arms outstretched for peace, Israel opened two criminal wars in two years, and Peres didn't utter a peep. With arms outstretched for peace, Israel continues to build settlements in the territories, and the president hasn't said a word. No more destruction? What about the terrible destruction Israel wreaked in vain on Gaza? Not a sound from Peres. No more hatred? What exactly was Israel sowing in Gaza? Peres keeps mum.
Similar to Levy's point above, I was struck during Peres's speech to AIPAC how cookie cutter it was. It could have been the same speech he gave 15 years ago (you can read and watch it here). The audience was appreciative, but I couldn't see it holding much sway with the Obama administration or other government leaders. Times seem to have passed Peres by. Levy also points out another inevitable task Peres has taken on - selling the Netanyahu/Lieberman government to the world. Or as he puts it, "slapping the kosher stamp of approval on what the world sees as an abomination."
Noam Sheizaf makes a similar point on in his Promised Land blog in the post, "I don’t listen to Peres, and you shouldn’t either." There he accuses Peres, and the Israeli government in general, of doing something that Israel often attacks others for doing - "speaking in two languages. The first one is aimed to please the world . . . the second one – reserved for internal use only – deals with the things we really plan to do."
I can't listen to Peres any more. I in fact wonder what made people celebrate his speech at Davos.
One thing that distinctively remains on my mind is the young women approaching him and whispering in his ear when he is about to address the audience in Davos after Erdogan's speech.
That surely was the most interesting part of it.
Who was that?
Shimon Peres also is a Holocaust Denier. He denied the Armenian Holocaust when he said "What happened to the Armenians was a tragedy, not a genocide." Peres has ZERO moral authority. Jews, more than any other people, have no right to to deny the Armenian Holocaust. By doing so, Peres has legitimized denial of the tragedy that was not a genocide of the Jews. He's worse than Ahmadinejad.
And Israel has no right to complain about Shoah-denial as long as Peres hold public office. None. Nada. Zero. Zilch.
RE:"Is Shimon Peres the Israeli Minister of Propaganda?"
MY COMMENT: I once respected Peres, but now he strikes me as the type of person that I would like to keep my distance from. That change really accelerated when he came to the U.S. following the Lebanon '06 war to do a PR tour. His rationalizations really 'turned my stomach'. He now seems coated with a very slimy, malodorous oil.
There's no business like Shoah business, like no business I know…
Joel Kovel makes it quite clear that Zionism has been a lie ab initio until the present day.
Shimon Peres is like the archetype we've seen in countless movies of the kindly old gent who seems so proper and austere on the surface, conservative, well-dressed and gentlemanly, but something happens and his real identity as a Nazi in hiding is disclosed, at which point his old venomous side comes spilling out. How many primp and proper Jewish Zionists are living like that, only openly and proudly Jewish nationalist socialist, in America? Kind of scary, really.
Peres is right. Israel yearns for peace. It is the terms that need defining.
Peres was on Morning Joe during AIPAC spewing out the worn lines. The silence from the anchors was painful. They pitched softballs to get through the timeslot. I saw a flicker in Peres' eyes that they weren't buying. Peres' eyes went cold and contemptuous, his true nature, and what he really thinks of American goys anyway.
That reminds me, how is Agriprocessors, Inc going out there in Postville Iowa? Do we have the old kosher packing process back up and running, so everyone can see the light to the world in all its glory? Before the raid, looked to me like a perfect metaphor for internal Israel and domestic USA. Hope we have a green light again. After all, we are better than Hee-Haw reruns. Plus, we have a longer history.
Israel entered two asserted criminal wars in response to two criminal initiations and conflrmations of war.
Asserted? How so?
Crimes are determined in courts, not by rumors or assertions.
What the hell does that even mean?!
Some crimes are obvious on their face.