Yitzhak Shamir 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 militant group Lehi. After the establishment of the Israeli state he served in the Mossad between 1955 and 1965, and as a Knesset Member, a Knesset Speaker and a Foreign Affairs Minister. Shamir was the country's third longest-serving prime minister after David Ben-Gurion and Benjamin Netanyahu. Wikipedia
“Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath.”
Daily Telegraph London, (25 January, 1989).
Hehazit [The Front] (Summer 1943).
“The sea is the same sea, and the Arabs are the same Arabs.”
Shamir used this phrase in 1996, following the Oslo accords http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/pen-ultimate/word-for-word-who-s-throwing-who-into-the-sea-1.449269 ("It's Inconceivable" by Rafi Mann)
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