Shimon Peres Quotes
What you can do with relations is greater than what you can do with guns.
Peres, Shimon. No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination, and the Making of Modern Israel. Custom House, 2017.
Erecat was expressing his frustration with the peace negotiations and the lack of progress.
The quotation was made in the context of the Arab Israeli conflict, but the principle is general.
He was a realist who wanted to sue for peace before Germany was destroyed.
Shimon Peres was an Israeli politician who served both as ninth President of Israel, (2007–2014) and Prime Minister of Israel, as well as Interim Prime Minister. He was a member of twelve cabinets in a political career spanning nearly 70 years. Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and, except for a three-month-long hiatus in early 2006, was in office continuously until 2007, when he became President, being in that role for another seven years. At the time of his retirement in 2014, he was the world's oldest head of state. He was considered the last link to Israel's founding generation.
