2, October 2016 Simon Peres
Leaders around the
world honored Simon Peres who died at 93 as an Israeli peacemaker.
But a careful study
of his life belies the false notion that he was a peacemaker.
As a young
immigrant from Poland, Peres joined the Jewish
paramilitary terror group, the Haganah.
He quickly rose
through the ranks of the military becoming defense minister, foreign minister
and prime minister. His success was governed by assuming an extremely
aggressive posture towards the Palestinians. As defense minister Peres
introduced the practice of arbitrary arrests, home demolitions and extensive
land confiscations.
In 1948 he
participated in the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians and dispossession of
their land to build exclusive Jewish towns such as Karmiel and Upper Nazareth.
As Defense Minister he established military garrison checkpoints which
disrupted the continuity of Palestinian towns and villages, reducing them to
Palestinian Bantustans.
He was responsible
for establishing Israel as a military mini super power with the help of
billions of support from the United States. He acted as secret liaison with
France which assisted Israel in building its nuclear reactors in Dimona and the
Negev Desert.
As Defense Minister
in 1975 Peres granted permission for the first of many illegal settlements in
the West Bank which violates US stated policy and were the main impediments to
peace.
Peres’s award of
the Nobel Peace Prize was a cruel gesture by the international community who
watched as silent observers to decades of suffering of the indigenous people.
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