Before World War II he belonged to a Zionist grouplet that, in 1940, offered to enter the war on the side of Nazi Germany if the Nazis would permit a Zionist state, run along fascist lines, in Palestine. Shamir personally planned the 1948 terrorist murder of Count Folke Bernadotte, the UN Special Mediator for Palestine. The root problem is racism and its twin, nationalism. Israeli law claims that any Jew, anywhere in the world, has a right to full Israeli citizenship, while Arabic-speaking Palestinians have no such right even if they were born and have lived all their lives on the territory now comprising Israel. This is an inherently racist policy.
Fascist racism is built into the very existence of the Israeli state.
It is in the interest of Israeli rulers to foment as much hatred between Jews and Palestinians as they can. Israel's economy depends heavily upon the exploitation of very cheap Palestinian labor, just as South Africa's does on Black labor. Racism and nationalism are the main things keeping Jewish and non- Jewish workers from allying with one another. At all costs, Israeli bosses must prevent this, while keeping the super-exploited Palestinian workers nearby and without rights. There is one major Arab state, Saudi Arabia, and several minor ones on that peninsula.