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We must never bend too much.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Too Much
Bend
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All of the land of Israel is ours.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Israel
Land
Ours
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Terrorist
Arab
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Homeland
Arab
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I am not afraid of taking risks. We have to take risks for peace.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Taking Risks
Afraid
Risks
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The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Aim
Destroy
Palestinians
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In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Forever
Arabs
Jews
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Desperate
Slogan
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Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Fighting
Goliath
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Driving
Driving Force
Hatred
Israel
People
Jewish
Arabs
Jewish People
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I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Obstacles
Overcome
Arising
Eliminated
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Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
War
Jewish Tradition
Mean
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Blow
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Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Gaza
Jerusalem
Return
Strip
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Israel’s days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Gaza Strip
Gone
Israel
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Stop exposing your children to danger by sending them to throw bombs and stones at soldiers and civilians.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Bombs
Civilians
Danger
Exposing
Stones
Sending
Soldiers
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I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Concern
Leaks
Respond
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Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Bereavement
Misery
Suffering
Caused
Wars
Region
Solved
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Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Defend
Disappeared
Enemies
Jews
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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.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Terrorism
Peace World Will
Arab
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There is a constant effort of the Palestinian terrorist organizations to increase their presence and their forces in Lebanon.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Constant
Lebanon
Palestinian
Terrorist
Presence
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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.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Essence
Israel
Land
Settlement
Simple
Fulfill
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Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Process
Ready
Revolution
Revolutionary
Sentiments
Too Much
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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.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Avoiding
Denial
Purpose
Better Way
Negotiations
Talks
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The United States is our best friend, and our relations are excellent. Our relations will be strengthened even more, despite our differences in views.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Best Friend
Differences
Views
Strengthened
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A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe only one thing: that by his act he will change the course of history.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Men
Believe
Doe
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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.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Life Change History
Forth
Whom
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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.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Zionist
Claim
Recognized
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When we fought for freedom, for the establishment of a Jewish state, we didn't send a questionnaire to the Jewish nation asking if it wanted a Jewish state.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Fought
Jewish State
Send
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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.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Men
Israel
Land
Over It
Watched
Remembers
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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.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Distance
Israel
Nations
Organization
United Nations
Uprising
Cares
Distances
Whoever
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I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Miserable
Quiet
Tension
Go Home
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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.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Conquer
Jewish Community
Palestine
Tiny
Foreign Land
Imperialist
Jewish State
Mandatory
Rebelled
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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.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Inspiring
Leadership
Believe
Democratic
Democratic Society
Opinion
Persuasion
Strong
Power Society Believe
Masses
Resolved
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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!
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Commonwealth
Helm
Organize
Zionist
Ben
Conference
Convention
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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.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Country
Israel
Past
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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.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Cities
Divided
Entirety
Eternal
Flags
Forever
Immigrants
Israel
Wall
Welcome
Absorb
Capital
Center
Pilgrims
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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.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Camps
Defeated
Fate
Gaza
Israel
Objections
Palestinian
Refugee
Slums
Somalia
States
Arab
Attempts
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Nor
Several
Thousands
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Everybody knows what I represent. My message is that Israel wants peace, and I am going to do everything possible to find ways to get this peace, this objective of all our people. All of us want peace. The differences are about the conditions of this peace.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Conditions
Differences
Possible
Represent
Objective
Our People
Wants
Ways
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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.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Middle East
Target
Zionist
Fought
Official
Revisionist
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In their war against Israel's existence, the Arab governments took advantage of the Cold War. They enlisted the military, economic, and political support of the communist world against Israel, and they turned a local, regional conflict into an international powder keg.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Cold War
Communist
Conflict
Enlisted
Powder
Arab
War World Political
War Political World
Governments
Regional
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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.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Half
Holocaust
Integrated
Israeli
Shelter
Support
Jewish
Considerable
Jewish State
Million
Possessions
Refugees
Stripped
Survivors
Welcomed
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In its Declaration of Independence on May 15, 1948, Israel stretched out its hand in peace to its Arab neighbors, calling for an end to war and bloodshed. In response, seven Arab states invaded Israel. The U.N. resolution that partitioned the country was thus violated and effectively annulled.
Yitzhak Shamir / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Independence
Bloodshed
Calling
Declaration
Resolution
War Peace May
Arab
Effectively
Invaded
Neighbors
Stretched
Thus
Violated
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