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Knesset honor guards carry the coffin of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir before his burial on July 2, 2012 in Jerusalem, Israel.
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A man carries a portrait of Yitzhak Shamir as Israelis pay their final respects next to the former Israeli Prime Minister's coffin before his burial at the Knesset on July 2, 2012.
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An elderly Israeli man holds the hand of a woman as they view and pass by the coffin of Yitzhak Shamir as he lies-in-state in the Chagall Hall in the Knesset on July 2, 2012, before his state funeral in Mt. Herzl Cemetery.
"Yitzhak Shamir was a brave warrior for Israel, before and after its inception. He was a great patriot and his enormous contribution will be forever etched in our chronicles," Israeli President Shimon Peres said after it was announced Saturday that the former Prime Minister had died at the age of 96.
Gilada Diamant, Shamir's daughter, said that her father "belonged to a different generation of leaders, people with values and beliefs. I hope that we have more people like him in the future. His political doing has undoubtedly left its mark on the State of Israel."
Yitzhak Shamir died at the age of 96 on Saturday after a long illness.
Read more about the life of Yitzhak Shamir.
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Good ridance. Murderer. He was known for ordering soldiers to break kids arms and legs with bats, rocks, etc. Even the devil may not allow him in hell...
Thats not quite on par with a leader that encourages mothers to strap suicide bombs on their son's and daughters or arming them. If I was there and I had a twelve year old waving a gun at me I'd break the little bugger's legs too...or shoot him first.
Shamir was spot on. Israel gave all of Gaza to the Arabs who said they would bring peace. Instead of building a decent society they are shooting rockets at civilians to this day.
terrorist!!! terrorist!!! terrrorist shamir!!! born in Poland, had absolutely no business in the Middle-East at all. Terrorised the Britts, commited crimes against humanity. Evil scumbag he was!!!
Hey Sam,
Be careful with the words you choose. Are you really that full of hate that you would say such things? We are talking about the dead afterall. Beware of negative Karma coming back...
He is a brave hero to some and a terrorist to others.....Just like Yasser Arafat. Except that Shamir lived to see his terrorist activities on behalf of Israel pay off and to become Prime Minister of Israel. Arafat died without seeing the Palestinian territories that Shamir and others stole returned to their rightful owners, the Palestinian people.
a nice air brush job for mulims terrorists, before 1948 jordan held all of the area, why didn't they give it to the poor P L O ?the arabs hold 99 % of that region why does it kill there souls that israel have there own home ? which i might add god promised israel, no army on the face of the earth can defeat israel and that is bible, so muslim lovers will have to live with israel being there
Whoa, Israel 'stole' that land from Jordan and Egypt during wartime. If the land is going to be returned to anyone, it should rightfully go back to Jordan and Egypt.
Should that perchance happen, the Palestinians would be perfectly free to argue their case with both the Jordanian and Egyptian governments. Don't envy their chances with either of those regimes though...
r u wade, the bible, which is not god's word, because it has 'book of mark, book of john..' also says the earth is flat, that it is forbidden to mix textile fibers, and that eating an apple is a sin. i used to believe in the easter bunny and santa, too.
aussie guy
Imagine that...Jews stealing tiny Jewdea (Rhode Island might be bigger). The palestinians should negotiate or "pressure" Jordan. After all. Palestinians comprise an 80% Majority there: a true Apartheid State where they have no rights and are under the thumb of a minority of Saudi Hashemites.
Stefan,
"Mixing fibers" doesnt apply to you or anyone else unless you join a very very VERY small group of people. The Hebrew bible was not writtten to be a science textbook for ancient mariners. How you treat other people si more important to G-d than if or what you believe. But if one of his children straps on a bomb and says he or she is coming right over to blow you up; after you gave them some nice ocean-front property for "peace", you'd best shoot first while they are climbing over your fence.
A lion of Israel. A proud son of Zion.
Who lead a terrorist cell that killed British soldiers. Because they were seen as occupiers. Sounds familiar doesn't it.
That cell did not attack innocent civilians at random, nor did they use suicidal bombers or human shileds.
TERRRRORRRIST! MURDERER. THEIF. RACIST. no matter what wrong has befallen you, it gives you no right, in the name of god to do the same unto other most innocent people. an abhorring abberation of humanity.
That's interesting logic, may be you should share it with Hamas and Hezballah.
Just like Israel captured Eichmann and other nazis and brought them to justice in Israel.Newsvine should capture the nazi type anti semitic ranters on this site.It´s one thing to not have liked Shamir. .its´another to use it as a platform for pyscho ranting and raving against Israel and the Jews.And some like Jarret Herrmann who says" all Israelis should burn in hell".He seems like a good candidate to burn in the hell of Newsvine prison. He is the true scumbag and genocidal beast for making thsi statement about "all other Israelis" Your day of reckoning will be coming soon Jarrett Hermann for opening your genocidal criminal,terrrorist type mouth!
See, it never fails. Every time someone states the facts or dare to speak the thruth about the jews or israel, is automatically labeled anti-semitic. Shamir did belong to a terrorist group, therefore HE WAS A TERRORIST. He should have been hunted down like the nazi criminals. The fact that the world is silent and passive about terrorism when it is commited by jews is very sad but it doesn't change the truth
Gabe. Havent you noticed it is you that is dragging out the "anti-semitic card" for the first time here?
Thats the way it always happens.
it bereaves me to be in here with the haters. but I have to defend Israel's right to exist. God will sort out the haters. after all, they are God's chosen people.
Says who? Even if there is a God, why would he choose one particular race over the rest? For what purpose? This whole crock of crap about the jews being the chosen one is created by them, and serves nothing else but their agenda of world domination. The only choosing that I can think of didn't happen by God but rather happened by the jews. They chose America the most powerful country to be their tool to achieve their sick agenda. That is why America itself and the American government on every single level, infiltrated with jews, often with dual Isreali-American citizenship loyal to Israel. Just look at some of the orchestrators of the Iraq war: Perle, Wolfowitz. Homeland security, Chertoff, Israeli citizenship. Rahm Emanuel, Israeli citizenship. Phoenix mayor Phil Gordon. NY mayor Bloomberg. Joe Lieberman, Alan Grayson and the list goes on with dozens of jews in the congress, senate and everywhere in American politics. The jews are not the chosen one, America is, but for the wrong reason.
And how many times has god let the Jewish people get dumped on when they started to display their arragance that comes with the claim as the chosen ones. He has let them be oppressed for longer than they have been a race , some God , sounds more like an Arab War Lord
what proof is there that God picked the Jews as the chosen ones other than claims that were put together in a book written by Jews who interests were self serving.
Gods chosen people, my a$$. Israeli Jews are terrorists, murderers, thieves and parasites. Israel had a right to exist in the original borders set out by the UN, but they took more and more land, using wars instigated by Israel and outright land theft. That was a huge mistake. Israel should be forced to go back to the 1967 borders and if they refuse, an international coalition should defeat their puny army and disarm the entire country.
It should be no trouble defeating the IDF, as Hezbollah, a militia formed in Lebanon, soundly defeated them and forced them back to Israel, with their tails dragging behind. Israel is great at attacking defenseless countries and the Palestinians, who have no real weapons to counteract the Israeli air force, but on the ground, they are a bunch of cowards.
They claim they will use their Sampson option, but that is only bluff. They are cowards
Stop American aid to Israel for starters and wait for them to realize they are nothing without America behind them.
Ralph, as much as I totally agree with you, America dug itself deep in this $hit. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a nuclear warhead pointing at every major US city. Read Samson option. These fu@kers are sick
gabeo.there is a 1000 times more probability that Iran will kill1000's of Americans before the crazed ayatollahs and their nazi like Isalmic revolution bite the dust. As a graduate of the Goebells and hezbollah school of BIG LIES you should come up with some better hallucinations .The so called "Sampson" option could be used against one of Israels genocidal neighbors if they try anything funny. like poison gas or chemicals.Israel .like any other country would defend itself.if attacked in this way.Iran will most likely be attacked by a multinational force just like Iraq was during the first Gulf war to drive them out of Kuwait.Iraq sent a few missiles at Israel and Israel didn´t even respond,If they had tried anything funny like gas or bio weapons Israel would have of course justifiably responded and probably devasted the whole country of Iraq.But even Hussein wasn´t completely a Hitler like pyscho .He backed down to prevent his country from mass destruction by the U.S and its allies.As for the ayatollahs they seem closer to the psycho true believers of the nazis.But they know that if they tried anything funny they might get in a few punches but a massive response by countries on all 6 continents would bring the same type of destruction that Hitler brought to his own people.But Iran would go much,much faster and easier.It´s Iran that is the Hitlerlike menace to the world,Israel has acted responsibly in the face of terrorist beasts like Iran hezbollah and hamas.You are the sick one gabeo..along with a few others on newsvine.!! And most people on Newsvine have your number!!
People really get tire of martin fart's mumbo jumbo on ayatollahs and the nazi BS. Come up with something fresh rather than trolling on the same rhetoric over and over.
Got to love it when the likes of Raplh claim that Hezballah defeated Israel. Hezballah started a war in hope to recliam Golan Heights, but did not get them. All they accomplished was killing a couple hundred Israelis, at the expense of a few thousand Lebaneese lives. Nasrallah admited from his bunker that he would not have allowed the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers (which started that whole mess) if he knew it would lead to that kind of war.
And after all this someone can be stupid enough to claim that Hezballah defeated Israel. Truly ammazing.
A terrorist outlived his life.
May he be tormented in hell.
I wish I could time my foray into these so-called discssions. Was away over the weekend but come back to the same bigots as always. Those of you of whom I won't waste my breath on, must hover over a computer under the cloak of hatred to pounce on anything anti-Israel. Non-sensical would be to good a description. Just pure un-abated hatred of anything Israel and Jewish. Are you all some white trailer trash, who had a drunk mother and father who beat you or do you all come from some left leaning bastion(MSNBC) who just like to hear themselves spew the same inane hatred. Those of you who command the airwaves to speak of nothing but hate are cowards. You hide behind the anonymity of the computer keyboards. I thought all this hate was a thing of the past but alas it isn't.
I have one thing to say "NEVER AGAIN', THAT MEANS YOU RALPH H-------T
And, of course, all of you who celebrate Islamic terrorism, who celebrate the false prophet Muhammad and his nine-year old wife, who yearn for a caliphate that enslaves all of Europe and even America with a distorted, perverted and repugnant pseudo-philosophy called Islam, rejoice at the death of a hero, leader and statesman the likes of which the nations of Islam have never produced.
I embrace your failed culture, your failed states, and your blind ignorance to all things wholesome.
Shamir was a terrorist.
Israel killed 35 American sailors on the U.S.S Liberty and strafed the others in lifeboats.
When is the last time an israeli official visiting the U.S. paid there respect at a world war two memorial
for our boys who died in that war.
GOD's Chosen People... Chosen for what?
Let's sing shamir praises.
Member of LEHI which killed Lord Moyne and Folke Bernadotte.
Responsible for the Deir Yassin massacre.
Ran mossad in the 1950's ordering the assassination of other countries scientists.