Summary
Israeli politician who, in Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace’s 1999 introduction, served in 1956 as Ben-Gurion’s envoy for his contacts with France and denied the Israeli-French-British military collaboration for 30 years, before publicly celebrating it in October 1986 (Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, PDF p.9).
Details
- Peres served in 1956 as Ben-Gurion’s envoy for his contacts with France (PDF p.9).
- He continued to deny the collaboration for 30 years; in October 1986, on the 30th anniversary of the Israeli invasion of Egypt, at a public ceremony at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheva and accompanied by his French comrades from 1956, he celebrated the collaboration he had been denying (PDF p.9).