Yitzhak Shamir, hawkish Israeli premier, dies

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Yitzhak Shamir, hawkish Israeli premier, dies



SPECIAL FOR SYDNEY MORNING HERALDJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Yitzhak Shamir, the hawkish Israeli leader who balked at the vision promoted by the United States of trading occupied land for peace with the Palestinians, died on Saturday after a long illness. He was 96. The second longest-serving prime minister after Israel's founder David Ben-Gurion, Shamir clung to the status quo. Admirers saw strength and resolve in his position, while critics called him an intransigent naysayer who allowed Arabs to cast Israel as obstructing the road to peace. ...









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