Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Agusta 1990, Iraki ta mamaye Kuwait, ta haifar da Yakin Gulf tsakanin Iraki da babbar rundunar kawance, karkashin jagorancin Amurka. Iraki ta kai wa Isra'ila hari da makamai masu linzami 39 na Scud. Isra'ila ba ta dauki fansa ba bisa bukatar Amurka, saboda tsoron cewa idan Isra'ila ta mayar da martani kan Iraki, sauran kasashen Larabawa na iya barin kawancen kawancen. Isra'ila ta ba da abin rufe fuska ga mutanen Falasdinawa da 'yan asalin Isra'ila, yayin da Netherlands da Amurka suka tura batir na kare Patriot a Isra'ila a matsayin kariya daga Scuds. A watan Mayu na shekara ta 1991, a cikin sa'o'i 36, an kai Beta Isra'ilawa (Yahudawan Habasha) 15,000 a ɓoye zuwa Isra'ila. Nasarar kawancen a Yakin Gulf ya bude sabbin hanyoyin samar da zaman lafiya a yankin, kuma a watan Oktoba na shekarar 1991 shugaban Amurka, George HW Bush, da Firayim Ministan Tarayyar Soviet, Mikhail Gorbachev, tare suka kira wani taro na tarihi a Madrid
na shugabannin Isra'ila, Lebanon, Jordan, Siriya, da Falasdinawa. Shamir ya yi adawa da ra'ayin amma ya yarda da biyan bashin bashi don taimakawa tare da shigar da baƙi daga tsohuwar Tarayyar Soviet. Kasancewar sa a taron ya haifar da rushewar kawancen sa (na dama).