Israeli - Statesman | October 22, 1915 - June 30, 2012
I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
Yitzhak Shamir
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There is a constant effort of the Palestinian terrorist organizations to increase their presence and their forces in Lebanon.
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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.
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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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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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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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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 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.
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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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Stop exposing your children to danger by sending them to throw bombs and stones at soldiers and civilians.
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Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.
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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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