Top 67 Yitzhak Rabin Quotes
#1. We have the right to ensure our security, especially when it is possible to reach agreement on a political solution.
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#2. Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.
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#3. 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 and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.
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#5. 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 consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.
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#6. You have got to sit down and talk to people. You can't understand people from a distance.
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#7. There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.
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#8. We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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#9. Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
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#10. Vis a vis the Golan Heights, the present government of Israel, under my leadership, is the first government that is ready to speak about a withdrawal.
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#11. I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
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#12. Peace with Syria would provide more security than a few settlements on the Golan.
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#13. We can continue to fight. We can continue to kill - and continue to be killed. But we can also try to put a stop to this never-ending cycle of blood. We can also give peace a chance.
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#14. The use of force, including beatings, undoubtedly has brought about the impact we wanted - strengthening the [occupied] population's fear of the Israeli Defense Forces.
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#15. Syria doesn't want to talk with us on a bilateral basis, only under the auspices of the United States.
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#16. 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, the way I want it.
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#17. 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 a chance for peace, a great chance. We must take advantage of it for the sake of those standing here, and for those who are not here - and they are many.
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#18. We appreciate the efforts of the United States, of the president, of the secretary of state, and we are ready to find any form of talks, but we have to overcome the differences between Syria and Israel to reach peace.
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#19. No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.
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#20. Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.
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#21. The Government chose to give peace a chance. The Government chose to do something to achieve it.
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#22. For me, Jerusalem was united, will be under Israel sovereignty, will be the capital of Israel and the heart of the Jewish people.
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#23. We are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security.
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#24. We are committed to free access and free practice, to the members of the other two religions, to the holy shrines in Jerusalem. To the Muslims, to the Christians.
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#25. You don't make friends with friends. You have got to make friends with your enemies.
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#26. We will not rest until we reach a permanent agreement [with the Palestinians] that would secure a safe future for our children and that would provide us with renewed hope to live in a region where people lead a life of co-operation and not, God forbid, where blood is shed.
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#27. Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.
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#28. We will not leave the Golan Heights, not even in exchange for a peace treaty. We will be ready for a limited compromise and it does not have to be in territorial terms.
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#29. Indigenous programs and policy will come within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet because Indigenous policy and programs should not be an add - on, they should not be an afterthought, but they should be at the heart of a good Australian Government.
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#30. 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.
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#31. 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 two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.
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#32. I admire King Hussein his courage in leading his country for a long time.
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#33. We have to recognize that there is a Palestinian entity, that the PLO and the Palestinian Authority has to run their life.
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#34. We'll fight terror like there's no peace, and make peace like there's no terror.
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#35. I, serial number 30743, Major General Yitzhak Rabin, am a soldier in the army of peace.
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#36. Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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#37. 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 gesture which said 'Drive them out!
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#38. In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
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#39. It is my hope that I could be not just a Prime Minister, but a Prime Minister for Aboriginal affairs, the first I imagine that we've ever had.
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#40. It is the duty of the government to guarantee maximum security, and this is not an easy task.
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#41. This rally must send a message to the Israeli people, to the Jewish people around the world, to the many people in the Arab world, and indeed to the entire world, that the Israeli people want peace, support peace. For this, I thank you.
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#42. The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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#43. There are two phases of the redeployment of the Israeli forces in the West Bank: One, to allow elections. Second, after the elections, to help further redeployment.
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#44. What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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#45. I think the fact that we have been focussing on politics quite a lot and the tumult of politics rather than what we should be doing in terms of policy has made, I think, voters quite grumpy.
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#48. I am healthy. I wish all my colleagues to the peace process to be healthy.
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#49. If you have the same problem for a long time, maybe it's not a problem. Maybe it's a fact.
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#50. We accept every form or way to talk to the Syrians how to achieve peace.
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#52. You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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#53. I considered the prevention of war as the test of our security policy; in addition to being able to rapidly and forcefully end any war forced upon us.
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#54. 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 former general to become a prime minister.
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#55. Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.
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#56. [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 the Gaza Strip and the west Bank to Jordan. To achieve this we have to come to agreement with King Hussein and not with Yasser Arafat.
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#57. Steps toward a rapprochement between Israel and the Arab states create a process that turns economics into the moving force that shapes the regional relations instead of nationalist interests that were dominant in the past.
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#58. One of my theories about why we've been cranky is Australians have been forced to focus on politics or party politics a little bit more than they normally would.
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#60. 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 lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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#61. A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.
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#62. 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 the Gaza Strip to Israel, which will make Israel a bi-national state.
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#63. Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies.
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#64. A couple of things are missing from Indigenous affairs. We tend to go and process, we tend to spend a lot of money for very limited outcomes, and we have got to change that.
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#65. The negotiations must address all aspects, both peace and withdrawal.
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#66. Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.
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#67. I invite President Assad to come to Jerusalem and to speak with me, with our parliament, with whomever he wants to speak in Israel and in the territories among the Palestinians.
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