One of the last great Israeli politicians is dead

[abaris]

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).

He stood for all of that. But for the last 30 years, at least, he mainly stood for brokering some kind of peace deal. Exposing himself to all kinds of criticism from the Israeli right. He also stood for founding the Peres center for peace where he virtually worked until his last breath.

I grew up observing the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Peres was one of those knowing that there will be the necessity to give up territory in order to achieve peace.