Shimon Peres Dies: Israel's Tireless Peace Advocate
Peres served in every major role in Israeli government across seven decades — defense minister, finance minister, foreign minister, prime minister twice, president — and he never stopped believing in something most Israelis had stopped believing in. He was 70 when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 for the Oslo Accords he'd helped negotiate. He was 93 when he died, still arguing for a two-state solution that the parties on both sides had effectively abandoned. His critics said he was naive. His defenders said he understood something about the alternative. He'd built Israel's nuclear weapons program in the 1950s and then spent the next sixty years trying to make weapons unnecessary. Both were sincere.
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