Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin; Hebrew: מְנַחֵם בֵּגִין Menahem Begin, Polish: Mieczysław Biegun; Russian: Менахем Вольфович Бегин Menakhem Volfovich Begin; 16 August 1913 – 9 March 1992) was an Israeli politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Before the creation of the state of Israel, he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah. He proclaimed a revolt, on 1 February 1944, against the British...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth16 August 1913
CityBrest, Belarus
CountryIsrael
What kind of expression is this - "punishing Israel"? Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic? Are we youths of fourteen who, if they don't behave properly, are slapped across the fingers? Let me tell you who this government is composed of. It is composed of people whose lives were spent in resistance, in fighting and in suffering. You will not frighten us with "punishments." He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are only prepared to listen to rational arguments. You have no right to "punish" Israel - and I protest at the very use of this term.
things you see from there are not what you see from here.
We of course will say we claim sovereignty of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza district. Others will come, and they will say we claim sovereignty. What can be the outcome?
There are those who say we must rescind the Golan Heights law that was passed in the Knesset. To rescind is a concept from the days of the Inquisition. Our forefathers were burned at the stake and would not rescind their faith.
Lebanon, of course, is a country with great problems. Traditionally, they have religious-national groups or ethnic-national groups. They have the Druses. Even the two Moslem sects, the Sunnis and the Shiites, are apart. Then they have the armed groups. Everybody's got a private army.
You want me to become a leaker? I'm not. I do not leak any news from the Cabinet sessions.
You annex foreign land, not your own country.
We want a full peace, normalization in all fields.
We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate.
UNIFIL was a complete disappointment. But a kind of multinational force.
There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore.
The Palestinian Arabs will have their autonomy, we will have our security. We shall live together.
The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other.
The framework for peace signed by Egypt and Israel is almost a peace treaty. We solved the problem for the peace treaty 98%.