Shimon Peres is Dead – level 3

04-10-2016 07:00

Former Israeli President Shimon Peres has died and he was part of almost every major development in Israel since the country’s founding in 1948. People named him a Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1994 for helping to arrange Israel and Palestine’s first interim peace accord, but the deal never turned into a lasting treaty and opinion on Peres will always remain divided.

Israelis are deeply saddened by the news, saying they have lost a statesman, a diplomat and a peacemaker. In direct contrast, many Palestinians blamed him for their suffering, and expressed gratitude for his death.

Some said that he has a lot of Palestinian blood on his hands from his crimes against the Palestinian nation and the Arab nations, as well. During his era, there was war with Egypt, Syria and Palestine, and the imposition of a siege on Gaza.

Difficult words: founding (a beginning), interim (short-term), accord (an official agreement to do something), treaty (an official agreement to have peace), imposition (imposing something – forcing something on somebody), siege (a blockade, an occupation).

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