Israel’s Peres sedated, on respirator

JERUSALEM -Former Israeli President Shimon Peres suffered a “major stroke” on Tuesday and experienced heavy bleeding in the brain, hospital officials said, as doctors raced to stabilize the 93-year-old Nobel laureate.

The Nobel Peace Prize victor is sedated and on a respirator, Kreiss said.

In order to challenge the “dove” label and appease the right, Peres did not stop there and ordered the army to strike the Qana shelter, killing 102 civilians, mainly women, children and the elderly.

“My father is a special man”.

“I know that my father did not care about anything as much as he cares about people, as much as he cares about Israel, the Jewish people and the people in Israel”.

Peres has held virtually every senior political office in Israel over a seven-decade career, including three terms as prime minister as well as stints as foreign minister and finance minister.

He later served as president, a largely ceremonial role in Israel, from 2007-2014, before leaving government.

Peres shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Israel’s late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for a 1993 interim peace deal that they and their successors failed to turn into a durable treaty.

In a message posted on Facebook, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wished Peres a speedy recovery. He called for peace talks in 2011 with the Palestinians and warned the United Nations against recognizing Palestine as an independent state outside a peace plan.

“In my opinion”, Peres said at the time, “everything was done according to clear logic and in a responsible way”.

A spokeswoman for Shimon Peres says the former Israeli president has suffered a stroke and been rushed to a hospital. The center aims to showcase Israel’s technology achievements and encourage entrepreneurs and start-ups.

Early this year, Peres was twice hospitalized for heart problems but quickly released.

As president, a largely ceremonial office, he cultivated an image as the country’s elder statesman and became a popular fixture at worldwide conferences like the World Economic Forum in Davos. He underwent emergency surgery and got a stent, but would not be slowed down, asking the doctor how soon before he would be up and running again.