JERUSALEM
Israeli President Shimon Peres has said Israel was facing ongoing attempts of delegitimization but the fifth Presidential Conference contained within it a winning strategy to face those attempts.
Peres and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the audience at the final plenary session on Thursday at the fifth annual Israeli Presidential Conference, Facing Tomorrow, in Jerusalem.
"Israel is facing ongoing attempts of delegitimization, but this conference contains within it a winning strategy to face these attempts; It is alegitimizing conference, that shows how involved the residents of this nation are in creating, in renewing, in inventing. We are a nation with a life wish," Peres noted.
Thanking the many participants of the conference, Peres said, "Pray that those who are not our friends today will be our friends tomorrow."
Netanyahu, in his speech prior to Peres repeated his desire to enter peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority without preconditions.
“The only way to achieve peace and to end the negotiations for peace is to begin the negotiations for peace. We’re ready to begin negotiations now, without preconditions. We hope the Palestinians are ready,” Netanyahu said.
Also touching on the Iranian elections, he repeated his frequent call to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, said the international community must keep demanding that Iran halt its nuclear program despite the recent election of a new president seen as relatively moderate.
The traditional 5th Presidential Conference hosted of 2,500 people including former US President Bill Clinton, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Prince Albert of Monaco, famous Hollywood actors and actresses Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Diva Barbara Streisand and many other international scholars, social activists, poets, scientists, artists, clergy, entrepreneurs, economists, industrialists and philanthropists.
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