Shimon Peres and Benjamin Netanyahu offered opposing ideas about peace in speeches to the United Jewish Communities’ General Assembly. Peres, the head of Israel’s Labor Party, told the annual conference of North American Jewish federations that Israel must immediately make peace with the Palestinians because a growing Arab population otherwise will threaten the existence of the Jewish state.
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