Yitzhak Shamir
Yitzhak Shamir
Yitzhak Shamir; born Yitzhak Yezernitsky; October 22, 1915 – June 30, 2012) was an Israeli politician and the seventh Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms, 1983–84 and 1986–1992. Before the establishment of the State of Israel, Shamir was a leader of the Zionist paramilitary group Lehi. After the establishment of the State of Israel he served in the Mossad between 1955 and 1965, a Knesset Member, a Knesset Speaker and a Foreign Affairs Minister. Shamir was the country's third...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 October 1915
CountryIsrael
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.
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.
(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls.
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.
Israel’s days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.
We must never bend too much.
The past leaders of our movement left us a clear message to keep Eretz Israel from the Sea to the River Jordan for future generations, for the mass aliya, and for the Jewish people, all of whom will be gathered into this country.
The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath.
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.
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.
Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war,