re: #102 Dr Lizardo

Heh. I remember my late grandmother, a Swede, who would fall into sputtering rage whenever Yitzhak Shamir turned up on the TV news. A host of Swedish obscenities would turn the air blue.

Yet she absolutely loved Golda Meir and she respected Menachmen Begin.

But there was just something about Shamir that totally set her off.

um just possibly it might have been this:

Shamir, Eldad and Yellin-Mor authorised the murder of the United Nations representative in the Middle East, Count Folke Bernadotte during a truce