Shimon Peres’s prophetic legacy |
While serving in the Israeli cabinet and especially in the final years of his presidency, while the international community sat transfixed by the spinning centrifuges in Natanz, Shimon Peres turned the world’s gaze elsewhere. While diplomats were busy counting grams of enriched uranium, Peres — with his characteristic blend of visionary optimism and cold-eyed realism — issued a strategic warning that remains hauntingly relevant today. He understood a fundamental truth: while nuclear knowledge is nearly impossible to erase, the physical means of delivery can, and must, be dismantled.
For Peres, Iran’s ballistic missile program was never a secondary issue; it was the “smoking gun” of the regime’s true intentions. In closed-door........