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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.
Yitzhak Shamir
Justice
Political
Gave
Our
Claim
Recognized
League
Israel
Nations
Movement
Land
Expression
Zionist
We must never bend too much.
Yitzhak Shamir
Too Much
Too
Bend
Must
Never
Much
The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
Yitzhak Shamir
People
Hatred
Jewish People
Arabs
Driving
Driving Force
Force
Israel
Jewish
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
Life
Hope
Me
History
Man
Will
Every
Way
Could
He
Remembers
Over
Over It
Israel
His
Any
Loved
Land
Who
Watched
Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.
Yitzhak Shamir
Will
Gone
Gaza
Strip
Days
Return
Without
Israel
Jerusalem
You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
Yitzhak Shamir
You
Desperate
Slogan
Never
I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.
Yitzhak Shamir
Overcome
Alive
Must
Inside
Only
Arising
Feel
Obstacles
Eliminated
Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses.
Yitzhak Shamir
You
Too Much
Revolution
Think
Too
Must
Weaknesses
About
Ready
Revolutionary
Human
Process
Much
Sentiments
The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel.
Yitzhak Shamir
Aim
State
Destroy
Main
Israel
Palestinians
I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
Yitzhak Shamir
You
Several
More
Said
Still
Friend
Times
Blow
Getting
Painful
There is a constant effort of the Palestinian terrorist organizations to increase their presence and their forces in Lebanon.
Yitzhak Shamir
Increase
Constant
Forces
Terrorist
Lebanon
Effort
Organizations
Palestinian
Presence
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.
Yitzhak Shamir
Mandatory
Community
Jewish State
State
Rule
Imperialist
Because
Foreign
Israel
Foreign Land
Came
Did
Tiny
Being
Against
Land
Create
Rebelled
Conquer
Palestine
Jewish
Jewish Community
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.
Yitzhak Shamir
War
Conflict
World
Political
Military
Cold
Cold War
Took
Local
Arab
Economic
Powder
Support
Advantage
Israel
Existence
Governments
Against
Regional
Turned
Communist
International
Enlisted
Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.
Yitzhak Shamir
Suffering
Hatred
Our
Bereavement
Solved
Only
Misery
Caused
Anything
Region
Wars
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.
Yitzhak Shamir
Home
Peace
Better
Denial
Other
Way
Negotiations
Purpose
Better Way
Talk
Make
Talks
Than
Avoiding
Each
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
Baltimore
Conference
Movement
Convention
After
Decided
Commonwealth
Organize
Helm
Zionist
Started
Ben
Jewish
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.
Yitzhak Shamir
Sometimes
Party
Took
East
Something
Area
Highest
Part
Him
Because
Lord
Target
Revisionist
Official
Middle
Movement
Middle East
Against
Apart
Fought
Zionist
British
Next time you open the paper, and you see an intellectual property decision, a telecoms decision, it's not about something small and technical. It is about the future of the freedom to be as social beings with each other, and the way information, knowledge and culture will be produced.
Yochai Benkler
Future
Time
Freedom
Knowledge
You
Property
Culture
Decision
Will
Other
Way
Paper
See
About
Something
Small
Open
Intellectual
Intellectual Property
Information
Social
Produced
Next
Next Time
Beings
Each
Technical
Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
Yochai Benkler
Government
Technology
Science
Doors
Awareness
Scale
Investigative
Science Fiction
Were
Scope
Situational
Fiction
Shut
As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
Yochai Benkler
Government
Internet
Will
Long
Drive
Our
Collect
Civil
Civil Servants
Perceived
Data
More
Allowed
Reach
Lives
Servants
Deeply
Honest
We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.
Yochai Benkler
Anger
Fight
Fear
Power
September
Adaptive
Our
Response
Given
Only
Could
Terrible
Blow
Any
Us
Suffered
Species
Imagine
Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of 'the Troubles.'
Yochai Benkler
Life
Family
Terrorism
Crime
Few
Every
Early Years
Unattended
London
Fact
Troubles
Bag
Like
Israel
Years
Up
Suspected
Moved
Where
Grew
Bomb
Early
I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it.
Yochai Benkler
Terrorism
Fear
Judgment
Live
Chronic
Contain
Like
Know
Learn
Real
Public
Illness
Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.
Yochai Benkler
Organization
Idea
Coupled
Anonymous
Practices
Social
Zeitgeist
Technical
Set
I became a very simple person. The simple things are the most precious to me. I don't ascribe much significance to the things I have now. That feeling of touching death has never left me.
Yossi Ghinsberg
Death
Me
Simple
Feeling
Significance
Touching
Simple Person
Simple Things
Never
Most
Became
Left
Very
Precious
Person
Ascribe
Much
Now
Things
A professional knows what's impossible. If you know it's impossible, it is impossible. But if you don't know it's impossible, suddenly it is possible.
Yossi Ghinsberg
You
Impossible
Possible
Know
Knows
Professional
Suddenly
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