Silly Shimon Says

President Shimon Peres told Diaspora Jewish leaders Monday, "You have to close your eyes" to make peace. He also reasoned that a peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority will encourage Sunni Muslims against Ahmadinejad.

Speaking at the annual General Assembly of the United Jewish Committees, he said that "making peace is a little bit like marriage [and] you have to close your eyes and accept what is possible to accept." His audience laughed and applauded.

He also explained his reasoning why surrendering Judea and Samaria to the PA and establishing a new Arab state in their place would have a domino effect on peace in the Middle East...a peace pact with the PA would show Sunni Muslims it does not have to accept Shi'ite dominance by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's faction.

That was Israel National News.

Who is more stupid, Peres or his audience?

Here's Haaretz:

"When you negotiate with the other side, you begin to negotiate with your own people. They say: why do you offer so much? Why do you give away so much? Why are you so soft? And you can't convince anybody that you're not soft."

"Peace is a little bit like marriage. You have to close your eyes and accept what is possible to accept," Peres said, to laughter and applause. "And the nation that is like a good mother telling a girl she could have a better boy, and a boy that he could have a better girl. So the mothers and the fathers themselves compromise.

"I think we are mature. We don't really want to govern another people. It is against our tradition to occupy the lands of others, or to occupy the land where other people are living, which means that we are occupying the people as well as the land."

I don't think he's mature.

And in my limited experience, if you close your eyes, you'll probably either miss something or end up getting robbed.

P.S. Ever since Shimon Peres moved into the President's Mansion, his wife, Sonia, is nowhere to be seen, or heard. Why? Maybe Shimon himself should look around?