Yitzhak Shamir
Statesman
1915-10-22 – 2012-06-30
Yitzhak Shamir was an Israeli statesman and prime minister who led governments in the 1980s and early 1990s. Before statehood, he was a leader in the Lehi underground movement.
Books by Yitzhak Shamir
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Summing Up
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Quotes by Yitzhak Shamir
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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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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I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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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 Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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Lehi was not a part of the Zionist movement, not a part of the Revisionist Party. It was sometimes something apart, and Lord Moyne was the highest British official in the Middle East... and because we fought against the British in this area, we took him for a target.
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