Yitzhak Rabin Quotes

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• Enough of blood and tears. Enough!
• [Israel will] create in the course of the next 10 or 20 years conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees from…
• 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 a…
• Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.
• I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
• I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only…
• I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that…
• I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
• I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our…
• In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
• I would like Israel to be a Jewish state, and therefore not to annex over 2 million Palestinians who live in the West Bank and…
• We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters
• Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies.
• It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side…
• The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
• We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
• Here, in the Land of Israel, we returned and built a nation. Here, in the Land of Israel, we established a State. The Land of…
• We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes, we who…
• I was a military man for 27 years. I fought so long as there was no chance for peace. I believe that there is now…
• But, more than anything, in the more than three years of this Government's existence, the Israeli people has proven that it is possible to make…

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