Shimon Peres - Peace Prize Warmonger

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Shimon Peres resides among that pantheon of warmongering Nobel Peace Price winners, who include fellow genocidal maniacs Henry Kissinger and Barack Obama, of course. Peres was born Szyman Perski in 1920s Poland and served the fledgling Zionist movement for the re-creation of Israel in Palestine (after a two millenia absence) in the 1940s, joining the brutal Haganah death squad's youth division. From there he was recruited by fellow Pole, renowned terrorist and future first leader of Israel, David Ben-Gurion (whose antics included helping blow up a hotel full of British mandate personnel and civilians 70 years ago) to purchase arms in preparation for the Nakba - basically the ethnic cleansing of native Palestinians from their homeland to make way for a Jewish homeland in the middle of predominantly Arab territory. During the 1950s he was involved in the Lavon Affair (exploding bombs in Egypt to frame the local Muslims) and colluded with the British & French in the actual invasion of the North African nation which began two years later. Peres was also involved in Israel's clandestine nuclear weapons program at the time, and had very clear ideas about removing the native population, confiscating their land and driving them away to make way for more Jewish settlements. He received the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating a deal with beleagured PLO leader Yasser Arafat which basically screwed over the Palestinians further in 1994, but during his term as Prime Minister two years later bombed a village in Lebanon killing over 100 locals and wounding more than a 100 more along with a number of Fijian UN Peace Force troops.

https://electronicintifada.net/content/ ... tims/18096

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Robert Fisk's eye-witness account of the Qana massacre:

I saw the results: babies torn apart, shrieking refugees, smouldering bodies. It was a place called Qana and most of the 106 bodies – half of them children – now lie beneath the UN camp where they were torn to pieces by Israeli shells in 1996. I had been on a UN aid convoy just outside the south Lebanese village. Those shells swished right over our heads and into the refugees packed below us. It lasted for 17 minutes.



http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/shi ... 34656.html

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Wow, didn't know this:

When, in 1990, South Africa became the first country in history to terminate its nuclear weapons program, the world found out that South Africa had developed the bomb. What the world did not know was that Israel was deeply engaged in helping her.

Israel actively helped South Africa with technology for systems to deliver the warheads, provided her with tritium and cooperated in testing. South Africa brought Israeli atomic scientists into the country and the two countries exchanged secret scientific intelligence. Importantly, Israel helped South Africa to build the longer range missiles she desired to deliver nuclear warheads. Israel also provided South Africa with thirty grams of tritium, a radioactive substance that increases the explosive power of thermonuclear weapons. The thirty grams–enough to boost several atomic bombs–was delivered to South Africa in batches between 1977 and 1979, during the UN weapons embargo on South Africa.

It was Peres who, in November of 1974, opened the secret meetings with South Africa leaders that would lead to the April 3, 1975 signing of SECMENT, an extremely secret security and secrecy agreement that governed every aspect of this new military agreement. And it was Shimon Peres who, on April 3, 1975, signed it.

So, Peres is not only the father of Israel’s nuclear weapons program: he also midwifed South Africa’s.

Peres also helped South Africa in other ways. In 1976, Defense Minister Peres dispatched Colonel Amos Baram to the apartheid regime to act as an advisor to the South African military. His function was to advise on “security problems,” and not just on South Africa’s borders, but “internal problems too”: a clear reference to Israel’s helping South Africa to maintain apartheid. Polakow-Suransky quotes Colonel Baram’s admission years later that “I was advising them on how to defend it”.

Peres also nursed South Africa’s invasion of Angola. The Israeli Defense Forces welcomed South African officials and trained South Africans in airspace control techniques. Peres sent Admiral Binyamin Telem, commander of the Israeli navy, to South Africa where, together with Baram, he would advise the Chief of South Africa’s army, General Constand Viljoen “on everything,” according to Telem, on South Africa’s Angolan invasion.

- See more at: http://mondoweiss.net/2016/09/shimon-pe ... ZSX5f.dpuf

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Reading Chomsky's 'Turning the Tide' at the moment, which includes a chapter on Peres. In 1985 the Israeli PM ordered his air force to bomb Tunis, killing 75 Tunisians and Palestinians with smart bombs which tore them to shreds. US Secretary of State George Schultz expressed Washington's 'considerable sympathy' for the Israeli action, regarding it as a legitimate response to Palestinian 'terrorist attacks.' He was referring to the deaths of 3 Israelis in Cyprus, though there was no link to Tunisia. & this was in response to Israeli war crimes in international waters. The UN Security Council adudged the bombing of Tunis an act of 'armed aggression' (the US abstaining). This is actually a far more serious crime than terrorism.

The same year Peres' 'Iron Fist' operations in southern Lebanon, then under illegal occupation by Israel, plumbed 'news depths in terms of calculated brutality and arbitrary murder' - according to one Western diplomat. Meanwhile, a car-bombing outside a Beirut mosque, timed to go off as worshippers were leaving Friday prayers, killed 80 people and wounded 256. Most of the victims were women and girls. The blast was so powerful it burned babies in their beds in nearby apartments, it killed a bride buying her trousseau, and it killed three children as they were walking home. The intended target escaped unharmed, however. This atrocity was carried out by the CIA, Saudi Arabia and Britain, as revealed by Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in his book on the secret wars of the CIA.