This mornings blog post is in regards to the life and death of former Israeli PM, Shimon Peres. And in particular, this Huffington Post article praising Trudeau for his posturing of pro Israeli in the current conflict with Palestine: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/09/30/justin-trudeau-shimon-peres-funeral_n_12273196.html
Firstly, let’s look at the facts.
Shimon Peres, died Wednesday morning, after suffering a stroke in Tel Aviv. He was 93 years old.
In 1963, he negotiated with John F. Kennedy to buy MIM-23 Hawk Surface-to-air anti aircraft missiles. It was the first set of dealings in ammunitions to the country by the US.
In 1994, after helping draft the Israel-Jordan Peace treaty, along with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for talks that eventually produced the Oslo Accords, an agreement between the Israeli government and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which was signed in Washington, DC in 1993.
What isn’t being mentioned in all this, is that on April 18, 1996 his government led attacks on a refugee compound in Southern Lebanon that killed 106 and injured 116.
He was also a pioneer in bringing Israel into the nuclear age. Believed to be the only true Nuclear power in the Middle East. And in 1975, he signed and governed all aspects of the SECMENT agreement, a secret brokering between Israel and South Africa to arm both countries with nuclear weapons programs, that helped pave way to the Peres led invasion of Angola.
In 1997, he also helped Iran develop and modify Israeli built missiles so that they could have longer range capabilities beyond two hundred miles.
This was clearly not a man of peace. But none of this has been spoken about in mainstream media, who pro Israeli conglomerates have been praising with high regard.
Sources
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http://mondoweiss.net/2016/09/shimon-peres-nuclear/
Morning musings: US Congress has voted to override a veto by Obama allowing families of the victims of 9/11 to sue the Saudi government: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/us/politics/senate-votes-to-override-obama-veto-on-9-11-victims-bill.html?_r=0
Canadian terror suspect was able to take a selfie with PM Trudeau: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/09/29/canadian-suspect-in-terror-probe-took-selfie-with-justin-trudeau.html?campaign_id=A100
Mentally ill patient not criminally responsible for hammer attack: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/hammer-attack-not-criminally-responsible-jeff-weber-1.3779102
Media Spin 