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« on: September 27, 2016, 09:18:49 PM »
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-37492153
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« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2016, 09:43:44 PM »
RIP.
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« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2016, 10:22:13 PM »
RIP and BDE to a man who had influenced Israel in many ways. Was never a fan of his politics, but he is an important institution to Israel nonetheless.

I always enjoyed his quote on life: "Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently. I prefer to live as an optimist."
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« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2016, 12:04:52 AM »
RIP FF. Israel desperately needs leaders like him.
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« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2016, 04:55:08 AM »
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« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2016, 05:53:59 AM »
Quote from: Jante's Law Revivalist on September 28, 2016, 12:04:52 AM
RIP FF. Israel desperately needs leaders like him.
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« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2016, 05:53:43 PM »
A complicated man; almost a stereotypical politician in so many ways but really not a natural one in others. Career only makes sense in the context of the weird cadre-like nature of the Mapai that o/c shaped him.

He named himself after a bird, you know. RIP.
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« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2016, 06:02:21 PM »
Quote from: Sibboleth on September 28, 2016, 05:53:43 PM
A complicated man; almost a stereotypical politician in so many ways but really not a natural one in others. Career only makes sense in the context of the weird cadre-like nature of the Mapai that o/c shaped him.

He named himself after a bird, you know. RIP.

His original name was Perski, which in Polish stands for "Persian".
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« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2016, 07:19:48 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: September 30, 2016, 05:52:18 AM »
Didn't know about that until now

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« Reply #10 on: September 30, 2016, 09:18:22 AM »
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It's true, he was also quite intellectual (though not formally educated in the mood of the socialist tradition back then) unlike Rabin who was crude and not so articulated (or Sharon who I think opened a single digit number of books in his life)
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« Reply #11 on: September 30, 2016, 09:33:39 AM »
RIP FF.
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« Reply #12 on: September 30, 2016, 01:03:43 PM »
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It's true, he was also quite intellectual (though not formally educated in the mood of the socialist tradition back then) unlike Rabin who was crude and not so articulated (or Sharon who I think opened a single digit number of books in his life)

Another state leader who, despite having holes in his own education, could be easily described as an intellectual was Bülent Ecevit (didn't finish the university).
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« Reply #13 on: September 30, 2016, 01:41:04 PM »
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Yes, in certain respects he wasn't that far off 'if Nathan were a politician'.
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« Reply #14 on: September 30, 2016, 02:26:17 PM »
RIP. He was Lauren Bacall's cousin, believe it or not.
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« Reply #15 on: September 30, 2016, 03:21:41 PM »
Ideologically, I had my disagreements with him. Obviously, our reading of Jewish history is very different. But he was a man deserving of respect. Perhaps, the last Israeli (capital-"S") Statesman alive.
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