Yitzhak Shamir Quotes

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Yitzhak Shamir

Profession : Statesman

Birth : October 22, 1915

I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

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We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.

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After '45, Ben Gurion started to organize the Zionist movement and the conference in Baltimore. At this convention, they decided that the helm of the Zionist movement has to be a Jewish commonwealth... a Jewish commonwealth!

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The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel.

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A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history.

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The U.N. did not create Israel. The Jewish state came into being because the tiny Jewish community in what was mandatory Palestine rebelled against foreign imperialist rule. We did not conquer a foreign land.

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All of the land of Israel is ours.

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There is no better way to make peace than to talk in each other's home. Avoiding such talks is a denial of the purpose of the negotiations.

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Several hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs live in slums known as refugee camps in Gaza, Judea, and Somalia. Attempts by Israel to rehabilitate and oust them have been defeated by Arab objections. Nor has their fate been any better in Arab states.

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Most of the Jewish refugees, stripped of their considerable possessions, came to Israel. They were welcomed by the Jewish state. They were given shelter and support, and they were integrated into Israeli society together with half a million survivors of the European Holocaust.

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In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.

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Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.

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We must never bend too much.

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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.

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The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple.

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If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life.

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Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.

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Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.

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Even if there is peace with all the Arab states, I don't know if the terrorism against us will pass from this world.

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I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.

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