Yitzhak Rabin Quotes

• We say to you today in a loud and a clear voice: enough of blood and tears. Enough.

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• …and I know that even the terrible price our enemies paid touched the hearts of many of our men.

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  Tags in Jews

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

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  Tags in Definitions, Concepts, Differently, Requires

• We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

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  Topics in Death

  Tags in Celebrate, Enemies

• The world is no longer against us.

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  Tags in Longer

• 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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  Tags in United, United States, Continuous, Displaying, Aid, Weapon, Struggle

• 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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  Tags in Standard, Improved, Radical, Swamp

• 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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  Tags in Aggression, Gulf, Madrid

• 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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  Tags in Ruler, Toy, Arab, Peace

• Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.

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  Tags in Jerusalem, Divided, Again

• 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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  Tags in Agreement, Penalties, Heavy

• 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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  Tags in Willingness, Region, Altered, Eyes, Image

• 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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  Tags in Israel, Dwells, Journey, Cooperation

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

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  Tags in Israel, Security

• In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

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  Tags in Debate, Midst, Fighting

• 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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  Tags in Palestinians, Gaza

• 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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  Tags in Entities, Palestinian, Arafat

• 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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  Tags in Israel, Exploit, Responsibility, Move

• 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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  Tags in Israeli, Palestinians

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

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  Topics in Society

  Tags in Government, Mentality, Attainable, Peace

Yitzhak Rabin (23)

Birth:	1st March, 1922
Death:	4th November, 1995
Nationality:	Israeli
Profession:	Politician, Statesman

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Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995.

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