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Israeli president: Obama visit a ‘good occasion’ to restart peace process

US President Barack Obama (R) chats with Israeli President Shimon Peres during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on April 5, 2011 in Washington, DC. (AFP)

US President Barack Obama’s upcoming trip to Israel is a “good occasion” to relaunch the stalled Middle East peace process, Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Friday. Obama is due in Israel at the end of this month on a trip that will also see him travel to see Palestinian…

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Shimon Peres wants to be your Facebook friend …’for peace’

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Jews are the people of the Book but also the “people of the Facebook,” Israeli President Shimon Peres joked about his flashy new page — complete with electro-pop video — on the site. “You have to speak the language of the young people,” the 88-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner laughed,…

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Obama announces top award for Israel’s Peres

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President Barack Obama announced Sunday that he was bestowing America’s highest civilian award, the presidential medal of freedom, upon Israeli President Shimon Peres, for his “moral example.” “Shimon once described the story of the Jewish people by saying it proved that, ‘slings, arrows and gas chambers can annihilate man, but…

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