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Articles · 1984

Under the Sign of Gemini

A satirical column about the rivalry between Yitzhak Shamir and Shimon Peres, describing how Shamir imitates Peres’s moves during the rotation.

Original material

אחרונות_1984-12-12_24 שעות_3.pdf ↗

Text & translations

Yitzhak Shamir does not let Shimon Peres get ahead of him in the race of the rotation twins.

Peres received an honorary doctorate from Ben-Gurion University. Shamir received one from Yeshiva University.

Peres offered talks without preconditions to all the Arab leaders. Shamir offered them to the Soviets.

Peres went to Paris to meet François Mitterrand.

Shamir immediately set out for New York to meet Sharon.

Peres has no choice.

At long last, he must do something that even Shamir will not be able to do.

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