Yitzhak Shamir
Former Prime Minister of IsraelWikipedia
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Sep 22, 2026
KenAUDIENCE
Shimon Perez, real name, Simon Polsky, born in Belarus.
KenAUDIENCE
Yitzhak Shamir, Real last name, Jezernitsky, born in Belarus.
KenAUDIENCE
Amos Manor, real name, Arthur Mandelowitz, born in Austria-Hungary, which is present-day Romania today.
KenAUDIENCE
And Benjamin Netanyahu, Nowakowski, his father was from Poland.
Muhammed ShehadaGUEST
So if you look in Israel, who's the most left-wing historic figure? It's two people.
Muhammed ShehadaGUEST
It's Yitzhak Shamir and Perez.
Muhammed ShehadaGUEST
And Perez, Shimon Perez, I think he was an advisor to Perez, that guy that I met, on the sidelines of a conference.
Muhammed ShehadaGUEST
And we had a conversation.
Aaron LavarcoCORRESPONDENT
Jewish people had to go under the ground.
Aaron LavarcoCORRESPONDENT
Some of their leaders were people like Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Rabin, Yitzhak Shamir, David Ben-Gurion was part of the later period.
Aaron LavarcoCORRESPONDENT
And actually on this day, In 1948, just after David Ben-Gurion declared independence, on this day, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, he called all the leaders of one of those gangs called the Powermach.
Aaron LavarcoCORRESPONDENT
He called all the commanders for a conference.
Owen BenjaminHOST
Good for you.
Larry SilversteinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
From Yitzhak Shamir forward.
Larry SilversteinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I said w- to myself, "Wouldn't it be fantastic if I could own the Twin Towers?" We got-
Owen BenjaminHOST
I mean, the, the blinking and his mannerisms are just so gremlin-like.
speaker_1HOST
And no one wielded this logic more ruthlessly or effectively than the Bush administration following the Gulf War.
speaker_1HOST
President George H.W. Bush and his incredibly formidable Secretary of State James Baker used this exact precise strategic logic to pressure the Israeli government, specifically the conservative Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, into attending the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference.
speaker_0HOST
Let's look at the levers of power Baker used, because this is a masterclass in hard-nosed diplomacy.
speaker_0HOST
The US had just destroyed the Iraqi military, proving its unipolar dominance.
Mouin RabbaniGUEST
Now, to get back to your question, it used to be the case in Israeli policy in, in, in Israel that the Israeli electorate would mercilessly punish any leader who was seen as jeopardizing, um, Israel's relations with the West and specifically with the United States.
Mouin RabbaniGUEST
The m- the, um, the most pertinent example is, is Yitzhak Shamir, who lost the 1992 elections, um, as a result of what was perceived of him throwing a monkey wrench into the gearbox of, of US-Israeli, uh, relations.
Mouin RabbaniGUEST
Netanyahu's first term in office during the second half of the 1990s also came to an end in significant respects because of what were perceived as intolerable differences, um, uh, with the Clinton administration.
Mouin RabbaniGUEST
The Israel of today, again, is a different Israel, and it, and, and it needs to be emphasized yet again that a fundamental reason it is a different Israel is because everything has been allowed to get away with.
Kenneth B. MossGUEST
It's also worth noting, many of them, the ones I look at, don't actually see Poland as particularly anti-Semitic.
Kenneth B. MossGUEST
It's not, you know, it's not a, what is it, Yitzhak Shamir said that, maybe it was Begin, that Poles drink anti-Semitism with their mother's milk or something.
Jane TyshinskyHOST
That is not
Kenneth B. MossGUEST
at all what the social scientists I'm looking at thought.
Kenneth B. MossGUEST
It's also worth noting, many of them, the ones I look at, don't actually see Poland as particularly anti-Semitic.
Kenneth B. MossGUEST
It's not, you know, it's not a, what is it, Yitzhak Shamir said that, maybe it was Begin, that Poles drink anti-Semitism with their mother's milk or something.
Jane TyshinskyHOST
That is not
Kenneth B. MossGUEST
at all what the social scientists I'm looking at thought.
Kenneth B. MossGUEST
It's also worth noting, many of them, the ones I look at, don't actually see Poland as particularly anti-Semitic.
Kenneth B. MossGUEST
It's not, you know, it's not a, what is it, Yitzhak Shamir said that, maybe it was Begin, that Poles drink anti-Semitism with their mother's milk or something.
Jane TyshinskyHOST
That is not
Kenneth B. MossGUEST
at all what the social scientists I'm looking at thought.
Kenneth B. MossGUEST
It's also worth noting, many of them, the ones I look at, don't actually see Poland as particularly anti-Semitic.
Kenneth B. MossGUEST
It's not, you know, it's not a, what is it, Yitzhak Shamir said that, maybe it was Begin, that Poles drink anti-Semitism with their mother's milk or something.
Jane TyshinskyHOST
That is not
Kenneth B. MossGUEST
at all what the social scientists I'm looking at thought.
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