Menachem Begin Quotations

We of course will say we claim sovereignty of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza district. Others will come, and they will say we claim sovereignty. What can be the outcome?

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.

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.

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

You annex foreign land, not your own country.

We want a full peace, normalization in all fields.

We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate.

UNIFIL was a complete disappointment. But a kind of multinational force.

There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore.

The Palestinian Arabs will have their autonomy, we will have our security. We shall live together.