Yitzhak Rabin Quotes

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Yitzhak Rabin

Profession : Statesman

Birth : March 1, 1922

We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.

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I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

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Let the Palestinians run their affairs: create a situation in which no Israeli soldier will have to maintain public order, whether in Gaza or the West Bank. Let's give it to the Palestinians, as long as there is security for us. No more occupying another people.

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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

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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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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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I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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There's nothing harder than defining oneself.

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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.

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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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Give peace a chance.

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Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.

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As prime minister, I changed Israel's position on peace negotiations. I made it clear that we are ready to go along with Resolution 242 of the U.N. Security Council, which specifies withdrawal to secure and recognized boundaries in the context of peace.

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I don't pretend that I can imagine myself as a Palestinian.

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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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Terror cannot be finished by one war.

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Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.

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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.

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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.

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