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

Yitzhak Rabin

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Yitzhak Rabin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 1
Died: 1995
Died: November 4
Diplomat
Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Military Officer
Politician
Jerusalem
Middle East
Itzhak Rabin
Itshak Rabin
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Midst
Debate
Public
Fighting

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I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
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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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The Government chose to give peace a chance. The Government chose to do something to achieve it.
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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 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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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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I admire King Hussein his courage in leading his country for a long time.
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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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It is the duty of the government to guarantee maximum security, and this is not an easy task.
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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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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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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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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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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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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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Syria doesn't want to talk with us on a bilateral basis, only under the auspices of the United States.
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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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Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.
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[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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I, serial number 30743, Major General Yitzhak Rabin, am a soldier in the army of peace.
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