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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  

✵ 22. October 1915 – 30. June 2012
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Yitzhak Shamir: 4 quotes1 like

Famous Yitzhak Shamir Quotes

“For the land of Israel - it is allowed to lie”

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“Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath.”

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Daily Telegraph London, (25 January, 1989).

“Neither Jewish ethics nor Jewish tradition can disqualify terrorism as a means of combat. We are very far from having any moral qualms as far as our national war goes. We have before us the command of the Torah, whose morality surpasses that of any other body of laws in the world: "Ye shall blot them out to the last man." We are particularly far from having any qualms with regard to the enemy, whose moral degradation is universally admitted here.But first and foremost, terrorism is for us a part of the political battle being conducted under the present circumstances, and it has a great part to play: speaking in a clear voice to the whole world, as well as to our wretched brethren outside this land, it proclaims our war against the occupier.”

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Hehazit [The Front] (Summer 1943).

“The sea is the same sea, and the Arabs are the same Arabs.”

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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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