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
My colleagues and I have gone in the footsteps of our predecessors since the very first day we were called by our people to care for their future. We went any place, we looked for any avenue, we made any effort to bring about negotiations between Israel and its neighbors, negotiations without which peace remains an abstract desire.
In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transformed. Throughout its lands there will be freedom of movement of people, of ideas, of goods.
After 1957, Israel had to wait 10 full years for its flag to fly again over that liberated portion of the homeland.
No one will frighten the large and free Jewish community of the United States.
Operation Peace for Galilee is not a military operation resulting from the lack of an alternative.
The framework for peace signed by Egypt and Israel is almost a peace treaty. We solved the problem for the peace treaty 98%.
The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other.
The Palestinian Arabs will have their autonomy, we will have our security. We shall live together.
There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore.
You annex foreign land, not your own country.
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.
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.
We attacked selected military targets of the P.L.O. Around, civilians were hurt, I don't want to deny it. Very regrettable, very regrettable. We regret it deeply.
The people of Israel have lived 3,700 years without a memorandum of understanding with America and will continue to live without it another 3,700 years.