Yitzhak Shamir famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Simple #Land #Essence
We must never bend too much.
-- Yitzhak Shamir

#Too Much
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

#Country #Past #Israel
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

#Leadership #Strong #Believe
The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
-- Yitzhak Shamir

#Israel #People #Hatred
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

#Distance #Organization #Israel
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

#Wall #Cities #Two
All of the land of Israel is ours.
-- Yitzhak Shamir

#Israel #Land
Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war,
-- Yitzhak Shamir

#War #Mean #Morality
A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only â€” that by his act he will change the course of history.
-- Yitzhak Shamir

#Believe #Men #Doe
Israelâ€™s days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.
-- Yitzhak Shamir

#Israel #Gone #Jerusalem
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

#Men #Israel #Land
(The Palestinians) would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls.
-- Yitzhak Shamir

#Wall #Boulders #Would Be
Our image has undergone change from David fighting Goliath to being Goliath.
-- Yitzhak Shamir

#Fighting #Goliath

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