Yitzhak Rabin Quotes

We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
Although it is true that Hizballah is organized, inspired, financed, and armed by Iran, its main bases in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley are under Syrian military control.
Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.
As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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.
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.
I don't pretend that I can imagine myself as a Palestinian.
I don't see any reason to discriminate against homosexuals.
I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.
I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
In fighting terror, you cannot let it interfere with the normal life of civilians in Israel.
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.
It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus.
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.
President Sadat of Egypt made a historic breakthrough in 1977 when he put an end to war and convinced both Egyptians and Israelis that he was ready to make peace. He broke down the walls of suspicion and prejudice.
Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
Terror cannot be finished by one war.
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Yitzhak Rabin
Profession
Statesman
BirthDate
01 March, 1922
DeathDate
04 November, 1995
Country
Israel
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