Yitzhak Shamir Quotes
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.
Shamir, Yitzhak. "Address to the Knesset on Jerusalem Day." Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 23 May 1990.
The mandatory power was Great Britain which had been “mandated” to maintain order in Palestine. The British were leaving Palestine and under the Balfour Declaration—See {594001} –they were to provide a homeland for the Jewish people. The General Assembly then voted overwhelmingly by this declaration that Palestine should be partitioned into an Arab State and a Jewish State--Israel. When the British left, however, some of the Palestinian Arabs together with the combined armies of the neighboring Arab states attacked the fledgling Jewish state, and to their surprise were beaten by the Israelis. This was the first of the Arab-Israeli wars as some Arabs have never accepted this UN Resolution and have continued to destroy the state of Israel.
Announcing his opposition to the covenant of a League of Nations:
The advocacy of the Jewish Return to the Holy Land was not first suggested or stated by European Jewish Zionists. Brightman was not only the first Christian to urge the return of the Jews, but the secon person of any faith to suggest it. He was only preceded by a Jewish refugee from the Spanish Inquisition--Joseph Nasi in 1561.
Yitzhak Shamir was an Israeli politician and the seventh Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms, 1983–84 and 1986–1992. Before the establishment of the state of Israel, Shamir was a leader of the Zionist militant group Lehi. After the establishment of the Israeli state he served in the Mossad between 1955 and 1965 and as a Knesset Member. He served as the 6th Speaker of the Knesset and as Foreign Affairs Minister. Shamir was the country's third-longest-serving prime minister after David Ben-Gurion and Benjamin Netanyahu.
