Quotation from Yitzhak Shamir “They are like grasshoppers compared to us” — Mar. 31 1988

Former Lehi terrorist, then Prime Minister, in a speech from Herodion to Jewish settlers.

Author : Thematics :
" We say to them from the heights of this mountain and from the perspective of thousands of years of history that they are like grasshoppers compared to us. [...] Anybody who wants to damages this fortress will have his head smashed against the boulders and the walls. "

New York Times, Aprisl 1st 1998, Quoted in Adrian Hamilton Grasshoppers ready to jump on racist Israël , The Observer, April 3, 1988.

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