Yitzhak Shamir Israel Quotations

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.

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.

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

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

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.

All of the land of Israel is ours.

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

(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls.

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.