Peres a senile old coot. Peres was good at implementing Ben Gurion's policies. Since Ben Gurion departed from the scene, every decision Peres made was bad for Israel. Do not attack Osirak, Oslo, all of his other fantasies. When Ben Gurion died Peres should have retired from his political life of ego and fantasy.

and never allowed to communicate with the outside. As for the welfare demonstrators, you have time for your demos, but not to work. Stop welfare now and use the money for defense. A person with self pride does not take money from the government, but works and pays taxes.

Peres may have honest convictions about Israel's deterrent ability vis a vie Iran. Prior to WW2, Charles Lindburgh also thought the Germans were invincible..just too strong for the US and Allies. Hitler siad in Mein Kampf that WW1 was lost due to Allied propaganda, making defeatests out of the German army and wilingness to fight to victory. The Democrats wanted a timeline for US troops..McCain aborred this frame, claiming you dont advertise to the enemy (while boys are dying). Both Afghan/Iraq are slding downhill again, Al Qaeda embolden..and now in the Sinai. Peres has every right to attempt to influence his boss...but just that. He is NOT the P.M. He, is leftist through and through.,.,claiming the moral high ground...minimizing Israel's abilities, while emboldening Iran, etc. Ahmad, the Supreme Leader, thehead of the Parliament and Rev Guards. ALL predict Zionisms end, and Israel's destruction..eventually, within 9 days if Israel (or the US attacks). Iran, w/o nukes...is brazen and optimistic..Israel, with 500 nukes, is timid, and apologetic. If I were living in Tel Aviv, I would want Peres resignation immediately. There are so many who want to replace him. Bottom line: Peres ia a liability to Israel.and should, like an old racehorse, be retired comforabley to Coral Gables Florida, or Boca Rotun..with his generations. Then he can listen to Sarah Palin tell the oldsters how bad Romney, Ryan will be for the Jews there. BTW, Peres was involved with the Israeli atomic bomb reseach decades ago. But time marches on.

In this case he is right we cannot do it, not because Obam doesn't want us to try but because we do not have the hardware, the situation is very different to what it was and pretty much the only thing the same is we want to bomb a nuclear reactor in a Gulf state. Iran's has been given to much time to prepare for an attack and so right now the only ones with the tools to do the job and do it properly are the Americans. In 1981 Peres was not against attacking Saddam Hussain because he was worried it could not be done but because he was worried about diplomacy. France was building the thing for Saddam and Peres was worried if we bomb it then it will damage relations between France & Israel and he planned to make the whole plan public so Begin had to move things up ahead of schedule to head off Peres. This time its not about diplomacy its about are we physically capable of doing it.

...with the indigenous Palestinians, nor with Israel's Arab neighbors. Iran has no WMDs of any kind, period. Only purpose of an attack would be perpetual war, to justify holding on to the territories forever.

and many other lefty-looney mainstream lamestream elitists... Other than that, normal people want him safely in a rubber room for the insane.

Believe what you want - but a majority of Israelis believe that he should be in jail for his crimes against the State of Israel. Ben Gurion himself declared that the putz Peres was the least trustworthy person to ever be in the Knesset. He has only been wrong 100% of the time.

I can't believe I'm saying this...but I agree with peres. Israel will get it's butt handed to them by Iran and it's allies if they attack be it by missile, suicide bombings and world wide terror against isreali targets. When Israel attack twice against nuclear instillation they were lucky because in the case if Iraq it was in a war with Iran and didn't respond and in the case of Syria well.. Syria is weak as hell so the couldn't respond. But Iran is way different than those two... Persian nationalism is just to strong.

My opinion he is and has always worked for the Americans. The Israeli goverment should should investigate this guy thoroughly.

Obama tentacles are trying to undermine Israel's effort in defending itself from Ayatollahist nuke.

Nobody should be in shock about this, least of all Bibi.....if Bibi did not want a leftie in his cabinet, he shouldn't have brought in Peres.

No one knows all nor is anyone free from error. Peres has been around longer than everyone but has made his share of mistakes. Only the inner circle in the government know the real situation of Iran, US support, Arab support (yes!) and opposition, European help, etc. Even they do not give away their full hand, so we must wait.

threatens to bring about the demise of Israel. Better listen to the man before it's too late.

1) God hates evil 2) God hates men and women that do evil 3) God extends love and tolerance to everyone 4) God promotes peace 5) God promotes right to life and right to self defense 6) God DOES NOT support reckless altruism 7) God DOES NOT support individual suicide 8) God DOES NOT support national suicide 9) God ABSOLUTELY supports fighting someone who wants you dead. 10) God says its not your right but your obligation to defend yourself when attacked. 11) God does not support destroying the Chosen People and God will not tolerate threats and violence against the Chosen People. Everything Netanyahu and Barak have done in regards to Iran is coherent with Judaism.

For all those in israel and around the world who are against an israel attack on Iran, what do you think will happen if Israel does nothing? Do you think Israel will live happily ever after?     Have you not been watching Israel’s enemy arming to the teeth while surrounding her? Have you not heard their threats to destroy Israel. It’s time for all you wishful thinkers to wake up from your coma. There is evil in this world and it wants to perpetrate a second holocaust, finish the work of Hitler but this time with atomics. What do all of you who are wringing your hands think Hitler would have done if he had the bomb. If anyone who is reading this says nothing, then go about your merry way because you’re totally clueless and clearly delusional. The longer Israel waits the worse the outcome for Israel becomes. There will be war, and it best be fought on Israel’s terms.

Israel with a gramm of sense who can put paid to silly old Peres? Why this old-fella is allowed to open his 'clappers' and talk the dangerous suggestions he constantly makes, beats me. Given half a chance, I'd slap his mouth so hard and fast he wouldn't know where it came from!

If that is your honest opinion re Peres then you're as big a fool as he is!

He is the president, as a such, he is not supposed to discuss politcal matters. Bibi should tell him to shut up, privately of course. I wish the old geezer would just retire already. He will never admit he was wrong about Oslo and disengagement. He's a snake.

In the mid nineties after a bloody terror bombing of a bus in Jerusalem , Mr.Peres said to BBC : " HAMAS declared war on Israel and Israel will act accordingly". But nothing happened after this,more bombigs came upon Israeli civilians. The president lied! There was not any act by Israel "accordingly".

For the President in office,when he is no longer in office he can abuse Netanyahu 24/7

I feel sad for Perez. He served IDF well yet politics was not his best suit. Neither is business; he stuck his neck out for Better Place. Good he's 89 and will not see the thousands of millions of $'s go down a drain. He oversteps mark with uncoordinated statements likely to influence enemies and may harm Israel. I am sorry he does not shut it . Talmus advises less words

of them are doing very badly now. Faceboob guy, madanno, and obamo.

Sometimes he is right, often he is wrong, but everything he says or believes is based on pessimism, a fear of outsize foreign forces. This view appears to be the result of a childhood under foreign occupation and youth spent trying to equip an army that had its back to the sea. The enemy, he believes, is always stronger. Sometimes he was right, at Oslo, he was wrong.