One of the last great Israeli politicians is dead

[Pat Mustard]

Schimon Peres died aged 93, after suffering a stroke a couple of weeks ago. He always stood for negotiations and virtually worked to his last breath with his organisation for peace. A rather secular figure on the side, who always was a big defender of Israel but never outright denied the Palestinian right to find a two state solution.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people...34186.html

He stood for a nuclear Israel, he stood for further disenfranchisement of Israel and stealing of their lands (for example when the PLO were, very reluctantly, willing to allow the largest of the illegal West Bank settlements to remain under Israeli jurisdiction as part of the Camp David negotiations, they were told in no uncertain terms that their surrender didn't go far enough).

For me Peres is the symbol of all that is wrong with the Israeli/Palestinian situation, in that the Israeli side cannot see that they are in the wrong, and they are too mollycoddled by the powerful to be shown that they are wrong.