You want me to become a leaker? I'm not. I do not leak any news from the Cabinet sessions. -Menachem Begin

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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.- Menachem Begin

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Operation Peace for Galilee is not a military operation resulting from the lack of an alternative. -Menachem Begin

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The framework for peace signed by Egypt and Israel is almost a peace treaty. We solved the problem for the peace treaty 98%. -Menachem Begin

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After 1957, Israel had to wait 10 full years for its flag to fly again over that liberated portion of the homeland. -Menachem Begin

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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. -Menachem Begin

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You annex foreign land, not your own country. -Menachem Begin

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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. -Menachem Begin

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A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.

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I am not anti-rational, just unrational. You may infer a rational meaning in what I say or do, but it is your doing, not mine.

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