• cepelinas@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 day ago

        Can you give me some examples, because from the wikipedia page it looks like he donated for lots of charities and is/was pro-vaccines, the worst that I found was that he called for the release of all hostages taken by Hamas.

        • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          edit-2
          1 day ago

          “Morality is the wisest policy”. Shimon Peres was one of the world’s great optimists. A man who fought for peace and very nearly achieved it.

          https://www.instagram.com/p/BK45-MkgRv-/

          Peres was part of the governments that established the first illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank following the 1967 war that have swallowed so much of Palestinian land, and he was against giving up any of the conquered territory throughout the 1970s. In 1982, he initially supported the war against the Palestinian Liberation Organization in Lebanon led by the then Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin. The Israeli invasion later resulted in the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian refugees at the camps of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut. But Lebanon did not see the last of Peres. In 1996, as prime minister of Israel, he presided over the disastrous Israeli attack on a U.N. base at Qana, which killed 106 civilians sheltering there.

          https://time.com/4511494/shimon-peres-legacy/

          He’s also close friend of Lee Kern, writer and another Islamophobic Zionist.

          Not to mention his ridiculous portrayal of Muslims as backward racists in Borat.

          He has also never once criticised Israel for how they have historically and are currently killed Palestinians.


          Edit

          Forgot to mention how he portrayed a Palestinian NGO worker as terrorist.

          • Hoimo@ani.social
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            6 hours ago

            Of all the Israeli politicians, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin also got closest to an actual peace. Being positive about Peres doesn’t make SBC a Zionist, it makes him naive at worst.