But it wasn't an Israeli "peacenik" like Shimon Peres who withdrew Jewish settlers from occupied land.

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Most CND veterans see their peacenik days, at worst, as romantic youthful idealism.

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Ariel Sharon -- onetime military hero and champion of Jewish settlements in occupied land -- did not become a peacenik.

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After all, a deal made by a rough right-winger is always more likely to stick than one struck by a squishier long-time peacenik.

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He has since bowed to pressure to pipe down in public (though he denies having done so), confining himself to encouraging peacenik Jewish dissidents not to turn their backs on the mainstream community.

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He's the furthest thing from a peacenik.

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"Sharif had a discourse on every subject concerning India without having any regard to stated national policies and, in his exuberance toward portraying himself as a peacenik, forgot to mention about state terrorism sponsored by India against Pakistan, " Mr. Hali wrote.

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