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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

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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. "

" 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

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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. "

" You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan. "

" 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. "

" I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses. "

" We must never bend too much. "

" 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. "

" There is a constant effort of the Palestinian terrorist organizations to increase their presence and their forces in Lebanon. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared. "

" I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree. "

" In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever. "

" 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. "

" Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred. "

" Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return. "

" 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. "

" I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated. "

" The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple. "

" The United States is our best friend, and our relations are excellent. Our relations will be strengthened even more, despite our differences in views. "

" 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. "

" Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland. "

" All of the land of Israel is ours. "

" 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. "

" Stop exposing your children to danger by sending them to throw bombs and stones at soldiers and civilians. "