Quote

The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.

Yitzhak Rabin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Weapons
Struggle
Peace
Displaying
United
Continuous
States
Willingness
Finds
Aids
Israel

More quotes by Yitzhak Rabin

Image
In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
Yitzhak Rabin
Image
Peace with Syria would provide more security than a few settlements on the Golan.
Yitzhak Rabin
Image
We are ready to compromise. We are ready to take calculated risks, but for a peace that will give us security.
Yitzhak Rabin
Image
There are two phases of the redeployment of the Israeli forces in the West Bank: One, to allow elections. Second, after the elections, to help further redeployment.
Yitzhak Rabin
Image
Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
Yitzhak Rabin
Image
We'll fight terror like there's no peace, and make peace like there's no terror.
Yitzhak Rabin
Image
A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.
Yitzhak Rabin
Image
Syria doesn't want to talk with us on a bilateral basis, only under the auspices of the United States.
Yitzhak Rabin
Image
The Government chose to give peace a chance. The Government chose to do something to achieve it.
Yitzhak Rabin
Image
We will not rest until we reach a permanent agreement [with the Palestinians] that would secure a safe future for our children and that would provide us with renewed hope to live in a region where people lead a life of co-operation and not, God forbid, where blood is shed.
Yitzhak Rabin
Image
What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Yitzhak Rabin
Image
You don't make friends with friends. You have got to make friends with your enemies.
Yitzhak Rabin
Image
A couple of things are missing from Indigenous affairs. We tend to go and process, we tend to spend a lot of money for very limited outcomes, and we have got to change that.
Yitzhak Rabin
Image
I was a military man for 27 years. I fought so long as there was no chance for peace. I believe that there is now a chance for peace, a great chance. We must take advantage of it for the sake of those standing here, and for those who are not here - and they are many.
Yitzhak Rabin
Image
Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies.
Yitzhak Rabin
Image
We will not leave the Golan Heights, not even in exchange for a peace treaty. We will be ready for a limited compromise and it does not have to be in territorial terms.
Yitzhak Rabin
Image
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.
Yitzhak Rabin
Image
We have the right to ensure our security, especially when it is possible to reach agreement on a political solution.
Yitzhak Rabin
Image
[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.
Yitzhak Rabin
Image
It is the duty of the government to guarantee maximum security, and this is not an easy task.
Yitzhak Rabin