We did not think that [Egyptian President] Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent to Sinai on May 14 would not have been sufficient to launch an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it. — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus. — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
I'll continue to carry out whatever we are committed to. Whatever we believe leads us to a permanent solution the way we want it,… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security. — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
A couple of things are missing from Indigenous affairs. We tend to go and process, we tend to spend a lot of money for… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
[Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in… — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image