The Times of Israel..
03 July '12..
Within hours of the death of Yitzhak Shamir, before Israel’s seventh prime minister was even buried, Yediot Ahronoth ran a front page editorial, written by a former Israeli government official, that said that Shamir’s legacy would be “the restraint that he showed during the Gulf War in 1991… and the resultant respect that he earned from the US government” for not launching a counter-attack against the Iraq.
The article noted that “Shamir willingly withstood the pressures of irresponsible Israelis” who demanded that Israel launch attacks at Iraq while Iraq launched 39 scud missile attacks against us.
Upon reading this skewed tribute to Shamir, I could not help but think it was a shame that Shamir could not stop and send a letter to the editor, while en route to heaven, to set the record straight.
Shamir did not willingly restrain the IDF to earn brownie points with the US.
It was the US that boxed him in.
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