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" The United States is our best friend, and our relations are excellent. Our relations will be strengthened even more, despite our differences in views. "
Yitzhak Shamir
Friend
Differences
Best Friend
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" The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel. "
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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! "
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" Even if there is peace with all the Arab states, I don't know if the terrorism against us will pass from this world. "
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" We must never bend too much. "
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Much
" Stop exposing your children to danger by sending them to throw bombs and stones at soldiers and civilians. "
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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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Purpose
" 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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Land
Israel
" 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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" I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today. "
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Arab
Still
Terrorist
" Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return. "
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Days
Strip
" 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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Society
Support
" You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan. "
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Never
Desperate
Slogan
" A man who goes forth to take the life of another whom he does not know must believe one thing only - that by his act he will change the course of history. "
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Believe
Change
History
" 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. "
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Freedom
Asking
Jewish
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Afraid
I Am
Peace
" 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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Political
Expression
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Forces
Constant
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