Yitzhak Rabin
Statesman
1922-03-01 – 1995-11-04
Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli statesman and military leader who served as prime minister of Israel in 1974-77 and 1992-95. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 and was assassinated in 1995.
Quotes by Yitzhak Rabin
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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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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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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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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies.
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