Yitzhak Shamir Quotes

Terrorism and negotiations simply do not go together.

You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.

Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.

The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence.

The war against terrorism is one we must win.

Terrorism seems to be the ugly twin of democracy. We need to learn to live with it because we are vulnerable to it.

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

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.'

Terrorism and peace are incompatible.

There is one thing on which Arik will make no concessions: terrorism.

In some ways, Israel has achieved a peace. There are fewer rockets being sent into Sderot, there are no rockets to speak of from the North, there has been very little terrorism from the West Bank. It's a kind of peace. I hope for a better and more enduring peace. Peace is not an endgame; we will never be completely at peace.

We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

The war on terror is a struggle that will last for generations.

Terrorism is a means/a tactic, not an ideological or defined physical enemy

If the Palestinians lay down their weapons, there will be peace. If the Israelis lay down their weapons, there will be a massacre.

Terrorism is a strategy of provocation.

There is a real need to construct a different Middle East. The Middle East must change because the world has changed. And instead of oppositional armies that are fighting usually one against another, now we have a net of terrorists that are trying to destroy everything. They are not two; they are hundreds.

We totally and absolutely renounce all forms of terrorism.

Israel, an embattled democracy, has been fighting terrorism for over 100 years.

Israel will never surrender to hatred.

When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.

I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.

Bombs are not going to fix ISIS.

Afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for terrorism.

This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.