January 14, 2016 - Peres suffers a mild heart attack and undergoes surgery to insert a stent. Large numbers there, smaller than here in downtown Beirut but no less politically significant, Wolf. THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. SHAYS: Yes. I spoke with Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, arguably the most influential Shiite political leader in Iraq right now. A slew of terrorist attacks in early 1996 allowed Binyamin Netanyahu victory over Peres in Israels first direct prime ministerial elections. That's just to say, if you will -- it's my term, not theirs -- having broken this society by toppling Saddam Hussein, tyrannical as he was, the assumption of moral responsibility that the United States has to somehow see Iraq through. Balkanization? Basically, we are all for embracing peace. He said, "It is absolutely intolerable for Israel to accept the threat of a nuclear Iran. CNN Sans & 2016 Cable News Network. An earlier version said that Peres was survived by his wife, Sonia. Peres felt that a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation could break the stalemate in the territories, and bring peace to Israel, and in 1987 negotiated with the king in London. LEE HAMILTON, IRAQ STUDY GROUP VICE CHAIRMAN: Part of the problem, I'm sure, is that we recommend conditional aid to Iraq, depending on their performance. For 15 long years after it fell from power in 1977, Peres led the Labour party. The former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, dead, CNN has now confirmed, at the age of 91, at a military hospital in Santiago. The administration has a big problem here. Today, we are going to discuss his fortunes, career, early life, and many more. Shimon, as a famous reporter, has earned a vast amount of money in his career. First, though, let's check in with CNN's Fredricka Whitfield for a quick look at some other important news making headlines right now. Of course, the Sunni leadership -- the Sunni religious leadership, and the Shia leadership also, they don't agree with that, and they don't like to see any violence. And our military presence besides that, except to support that effort, should diminish starting right now. And the key point, I think, is where they say it has to be conditional. Over the years, wrote the Israeli historian Zeev Sternhell, Shimon Peres destroyed everything of value [in Labour]. Other leftists blamed him for initiating with Oslo II the settlement bypass roads that seemed to render a contiguous Palestinian state impossible. President Shimon Peres Israel news photo: Flash 90 "I can hardly stand to see babies being killed by tanks of their own government, but we cannot intervene," President Shimon Peres told CNN . And that, in turn, could help the U.S. in Iraq. The report says we should embed troops and start moving our troops out. The Kurds are worried about oil. When I was there last year with General Abizaid, it was clear to me that the United States did not have a good understanding of the insurgency, of the sectarian violence. "The festival of Sukkot is a festival of kinship and mutual responsibility." (President Peres, Sukkot 2012) Shimon Peres, in Memoir, Takes On Israel Past and Future. BLITZER: But you're willing to keep U.S. troops in Iraq, combat forces, for at least another year, whatever the cost, whatever the consequences? When do you want troops out by? And there is concern that, because of the Iranian position to try to destroy Israel and your alignment with Iran, there is concern about you. If they want us to leave, we'll leave. They're standing by for their view of what's happening in Iraq and over at the White House. ANNOUNCER: Live from CNN in Washington, this is "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer. But I also think that her majority is created by moderates and conservatives who won in Republican seats who talk tough and smart on security issues. The 9th President of the State of Israel, Shimon Peres , . And Kurdistan is the one peaceful area. BLITZER: Because you could imagine, with $100 billion over the next year, what you with could do domestically with that kind of money. Look, Iraq is where -- it's an oil-rich nation. Shimon Peres, original name Shimon Perski, (born August 16?, 1923, Wiszniew, Poland [now Vishnyeva, Belarus]; see Researcher's Note died September 28, 2016, Ramat Gan, Israel), Polish-born Israeli statesman, who served as both prime minister (1984-86 and 1995-96) and president (2007-14) of Israel and as leader of the Israel Labour Party I can't understand Mr. Carter. Stay with "Late Edition." SHAYS: No, no, I don't think there should be. We'll take a quick break. Bob Woodward, a lot of people are also suggesting, and this is implied in what John just said, that it's going to get worse before it gets even worse in Iraq. Stay right here. AL-HAKIM (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): There are many present (ph) politicians who've said many things and talked about many things. Also, the factor that disturbs me in all of this is there's no focus on the troops. REP. JANE HARMAN (D), CALIFORNIA: It's time to change the strategy. We need to understand our friends in the Middle East better. We'll continue with Jane Harman, Chris Shays, what's happening in Congress, the war, the world, lots more, coming up. JAMES BAKER, IRAQ STUDY GROUP CHAIRMAN: Well, I think that's disappointing, if that's indeed what he said. BAKER: Well, my reaction is, if you believe that editorial, you believe in the tooth fairy. All right. [1] After school, he worked as a paralegal in the office of the Brooklyn District Attorney before working as an assignment editor at WABC-TV and then as a producer at WNBC. And by the way, Wolf, you showed just before we came on that clip of what's going on in Lebanon. He said, "There will be that many in my district alone in one night" -- he's a Sunni in Baghdad -- "if American troops are withdrawn." Those are strong words from the Kurdish president of Iraq. He's a former CIA director, a realist. BAKER: Thank you, Wolf. And he also doesn't want Sunni Arabs from. BLITZER: Chris Shays, Jane Harman, let me congratulate both of you on being re-elected. Give us your sense of what, if anything, this Iraq Study Group is going to accomplish inside Iraq. Among the numerous biographies of him are Matti Golans Road to Peace (1989) and Michael Bar-Zohars Shimon Peres (2013). Apprised of his skills, Ben-Gurion appointed Peres head of mobilisation for the Haganah underground in 1947. BLITZER: It seems like that violence is escalating. But some pieces may be wrong. For two years, Peres worked furiously to keep the imperfect peace on track. PERES: Israel has shown, in the past, it was ready. Who doesn't enable them to be independent and be alone? They're worried about the disbanding and disarming of their militias and so forth. Peres wrote 11 books, read poetry voraciously, and could quote from Old Testament prophets, French literature and Chinese philosophy with equal ease. Israel later promised that it would not introduce atomic weapons into the region at my urging, wrote Peres. He is also active on Instagram, with over 1,700 fans. They're standing by, live. From here, it looks much more like a proposal, like many others in the report, that was designed to bind up wounds in Washington, D.C. than to bind up wounds here in Iraq. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) BLITZER: An update for you who are following the story: The former Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, dead at the age of 91, this coming in from a military hospital in Santiago. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) BLITZER: Your Eminence, thanks very much for coming in. It may be a great deal worse. He negotiated directly with Arafat, turned the Gaza and Jericho First proposals agreed at the White House into reality, drafted the 1994 Paris Protocol of Israeli-Palestinian economic relations, promoted regional summits and in 1995 sealed Oslo II (an agreement to restore Palestinian rule to six major West Bank towns). And then it had a front page, you saw, "Surrender Monkeys." (END VIDEO CLIP) ROBERTSON: And this comes on the heels of the words from another senior Kurdish leader in Iraq, saying that the study group plans to essentially take away from the Kurds control over their oil revenues, from the Kurdish area, putting it more under central government control. In other words, the violence we're seeing today may be just the beginning, as bad as it is right now. Shimon Peres, the Israeli Nobel laureate, former prime minister, and president died on Tuesday in a hospital near Tel Aviv at the age of 93. . Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) TOM RICKS, WASHINGTON POST PENTAGON REPORTER: I think we'll be in Iraq, probably, for 10 to 15 years, with American troops much reduced in their numbers. Peres served as Ehud Olmerts deputy premier after Kadima convincingly won elections in 2006. He wants to have, in the southern seven or nine provinces of Iraq, the same kind of autonomous area that the Kurds have in the North. [1] Starting in May 2022, he has been covering the Robb Elementary School shooting in Texas, including the related first responder attack timeline controversy. So, at least Dhafir al-Ani not very happy about your recommendations either. "I think the Baker-Hamilton report is unfair and unjust. It doesn't say Iraq. WOODWARD: Well, he was not there for the war, and so he's going to make a fresh assessment of it. Shimon Prokupecz is popularly known for serving as the crime and justice reporter for CNN's Washington Bureau, where most of his work is related to FBI related stories as well as law enforcement issues. BLITZER: When do you want United States troops out of Iraq? We'll be right back. He's going to be getting a lot of recommendations in the next few days. A lot more to talk about. SHAYS: She was doing a great job. Joining us now, two veterans of the Iraq debate and of the political wars here in Washington: Democratic Congresswoman Jane Harman of California -- she's been a long-serving member of the House Intelligence Committee -- and Republican Congressman Chris Shays of Connecticut. We're just getting this in from the Associated Press and Reuters. His New York-born cousin Betty Perske, one year his junior, went on to achieve fame as the actor Lauren Bacall. We don't need BLITZER: To break it up? As he said, he's not going to be a bump on a log, that he's going to come in and he's going to look at this situation. We want a unified Iraq. Shimon Prokupecz. Military spokesmen here weren't aware of it before he was coming, couldn't tell us about it when he was here. This time Peres was the liberal brake to Sharons determinedly rightwing engine. WOODWARD: Yes. After constanting watching you on CNN, I found my true hero. AL-HAKIM (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): I cannot say that this is a civil war. Brent Sadler, our Beirut bureau chief, is right in the center of the action. And that's a little bit of what that is. And there should have been a realization -- and this is one of the points of my book -- that there is a truth here on the ground that has not been absorbed in the strategy and the tactics. And there is a very wide agreement that they could dispense with much of the trappings of democracy if only they could get somebody -- who, it's not very clear; perhaps Ayad Allawi, the first prime minister, the first of three Iraqi prime ministers we've seen since June 2004 -- and give him plenipotentiary powers. In the Iraq Study Group report, the Arab-Israeli conflict is seen as inextricably linked to the situation in Iraq. Yet support haemorrhaged for a government blighted by scandal and economic malaise. Timeline:1934 - Family immigrates to Palestine. BLITZER: Because we're hearing from President Jalal Talabani today, in my interview with Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the Shiite leader, Sunni politicians -- they don't like this Iraq study report. We'll get an exclusive Sunday interview with arguably the most powerful Shiite politician in Iraq, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim. Military hospital in Chile, in Santiago, says now that the former dictator, Augusto Pinochet, has died. They don't like to see foreign troops on their soil. In Lebanon, Hezbollah and other anti-government forces holding massive protests. That's another reason why we have to get the Iraq problem behind us. Then there are the much wider political questions about the consequences for the United States of a meltdown in the region and of a war in Iraq, a civil war, which I think everybody here thinks would be catastrophic beyond present imagining. appreciated. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. What's the latest there, Brent? (END VIDEO CLIP) BLITZER: On CBS, Democratic Senator Carl Levin emphasized what he thought was the Iraq Study Group Report's bottom line. One of the CNNs most popular TV personalities, 40-year old Shimon Prokupecz, is quite active on several social media networks such as Twitter, on which he regularly posts updates regarding his professional career, which has been followed by more than 30,000 followers. And he also doesn't want Sunni Arabs from Saudi Arabia, from Egypt, from Jordan, getting involved in what he sees as the future of a Shiite-led country in Iraq. Hamas is against anybody and everybody who is not religious in their sense, who is modern. BLITZER: Here, Congressman Hamilton, is exactly what Talabani, the president of Iraq, said. They look for domination of the Iranians, the Hamas and the Hezbollah, over the Middle East, religiously. HARMAN: I think they're the right recommendations. The difference was minor. BLITZER: But the general notion that James Baker and Lee Hamilton and their colleagues have that, in order to ease the crisis, potentially a catastrophe, in Iraq, the United States has to get much more intimately involved on the Israeli-Palestinian front. But Israeli fury at persistent terrorism prompted demonstrations against the Rabin-Peres administration. And what's happening on the ground is partition. Now he's going to be secretary of defense. And, as Lee said, it's understandable, I think, that the Kurds, who would like their own independent state, might have some problem with some of the things we suggest in there, which is to support the president's vision, this current administration's vision, of an Iraq that can sustain itself, defend itself and govern itself, and that the Shia in the south might want their own state. After honing his skills in legal work, he later put some effort towards journalism and reporting, and joined the NBC flagship stations virtual channel WNBC as its producer. Discovery Company. I think it is really time for us to engage in new strategy. We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. AL-HAKIM (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): I would like also to express my gratitude for giving me the opportunity to talk to your viewers. "Stay the course" is dead. Here's from the Iraq Study Group Report: "On one day in July 2006, there were 93 attacks or significant acts of violence reported. The troops are the chessmen and women on the board who get moved around for policy or somebody's political cover and so forth. I've not met many people here, Iraqi or American, who think it is. There are parts of this world that need more of our attention. Today the prime minister, on behalf of Hamas, said that, even if we should reach an agreement, we will not recognize Israel. We're not going to be have unanimous support for any proposal in Iraq. How quickly would you like to see U.S. forces leave? And actually, that's going to be the Iraqi decision. Rabin resigned in April 1977 and Peres was prime minister for barely a month before Menachem Begins Likud demolished Labour at the polls. And in 2013 he delivered a video interview beamed from Jerusalem to a security summit in Abu Dhabi for 29 foreign ministers of Arab and Muslim countries. July 1, 2015 - During an exclusive interview with CNN, Peres expresses support of a nuclear deal with Iran and says it is feasible for inspectors to enforce the terms of the agreement. WOODWARD: Well, yes. But Yugoslavia is the right model here. They have a description of him. And this government is taking care of security. HAMILTON: And our recommendations move in that direction. BLITZER: That's what a lot of people are now concluding. I don't want to press the issue much more, but I clearly hear you saying you don't want to answer that question. AL-HAKIM (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): It's well-known that the Iraqi problem is an internal and external one. He was the best friend Israel had. Defeated at the polls in 1996, he returned in 2001 as foreign minister, thereby giving Israels controversial new premier, Ariel Sharon, a much-needed veneer of respectability. He also released For the Future of Israel, a series of philosophical conversations with the author Robert Littell. (CROSSTALK) BLITZER: Secretary Baker, go ahead. It could be a prescription for a wider regional war. Miraculously, their enmity turned to partnership, with Peres, the foreign minister, as the engine and Rabin, the prime minister, as the gears and brakes (or so Peres later described it). Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. 1948 - Appointed head of Israels Naval Services. A year after his death, the last of the founding generation of Israels leaders describes a life entwined with the birth and construction of Israel.. I'm Wolf Blitzer in Washington. Stand by. AL-HAKIM (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): We respect the legitimacy of all other countries and their politics and everything they do. SHAYS: Well, I mean, they can make that point, and it's fair, and they should. If the U.S. stays for another year, let's say, and another 1,000 American troops are killed, 5,000 injured, $100 billion spent, is it going to really make a difference when all is said and done? Wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us for "Late Edition." We'll be right back. "Late Edition," the last word in Sunday talk. It will be a mistake. The first one was Rumsfeld leaving. So I think the Iraqi leaders think that that point is not likely to come. May 29, 2012 - Receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from US President Barack Obama during an East Room ceremony in the White House. Rabin, meanwhile, concentrated on Syrian talks via his protege, the military chief of staff Ehud Barak. BLITZER: The other sensitive issue that people want to know your position is on, because this has come up often, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's rejection that there was a Holocaust. We would like to negotiate some time, somehow. Peres chided Bibi for 111 days of verbiage, and held on as party chairman until Barak ousted him in 1997. No wonder Orly Azoulay titled her 1996 biography of him The Man Who Didnt Know How to Win. Do you agree with him or disagree with him? Here's what the president said on Thursday at his news conference with Tony Blair. It's going to move to the Pentagon, under Bob Gates, the newly confirmed secretary of defense, who is there to make new decisions, working with Congress. If you can talk with ayatollahs, God bless you. PERES: I wish it would help. But in some areas, it's quiet. As a crime and justice correspondent for CNN, he has covered some of the. (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (NEWSBREAK) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) BLITZER: Welcome back to "Late Edition." I understand how hard our troops are working. BLITZER: It looks like the situation in Iraq right now is falling apart. A year after his death, the last of the founding generation of Israel's leaders describes a life "entwined with the birth and . BLITZER: Do you want an international conference, including all of Iraq's neighbors -- Iran, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt -- to be involved in trying to ease the crisis in Iraq right now? Up until this point, we've given a blank check to the Iraqis. Also See: The Net Worth and Personal Life of Indian-British actress Meneka Das. AL-HAKIM (THROUGH TRANSLATOR): Everyone who understands, it's his right to understand whatever.
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