Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Shara at the Madrid Peace Conference in October 1991. For the conference, he had prepared a moderate speech with Ambassador Walid al-Moualim but decided to tear it up after hearing a provocative speech by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. The Israeli Premier had accused Syria of being a terrorist state, and Shara responded by showing a newspaper clipping from 1948, with a picture of Shamir and the words WANTED written above it in bold letters. Shara said, “I will just show you, if I may, an old photograph of Mr. Shamir. Why was this picture distributed? Because he was WANTED! He helped, as I recall, in the assassination of Count Bernadotte, the UN mediator in Palestine in 1948. He kills peace mediators!”