(Boston Globe) Shimon Peres- A battle between tradition and modernity is being waged in the Middle East. It is the clash between those who offer only a past and those who call upon free people to seize the future and find their own route to liberty, prosperity, and peace. Throughout the Middle East, voices calling for openness and democracy are slowly and tentatively being heard. These voices cannot but triumph. Terrorists and extremist fundamentalists have nothing to offer their people. There is no place for countries that stifle free scientific inquiry, thought, creativity, and speech. Israel, a country no bigger than Greater Boston, is refashioning and rebuilding itself, forging a new vision of a global metropolis exporting knowledge, science, and technology to the world.
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