Quotation from Yitzhak Shamir “Personal terrorism is ... acceptable under some conditions” — Sep. 5 1991
Prime Minister of Israel, Shamlr, interviewed by Army Radio on the 50th anniversary of the founding of Lehi, the underground [terrorist] group in which he fought the British administration in Palestine in the 1940s.
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"Personal terrorism is a way of fighting that is acceptable under some conditions and by certain movements… The Jews, stateless and persecuted, had no choice (but the Palestinians are) … fighting for land that is not theirs. This is the land of the jewish people.
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Associated Press dispatch published in the San Francisco Chronicle and the Jordan Times.
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