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I, serial number 30743, Major General Yitzhak Rabin, am a soldier in the army of peace.

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Yitzhak Rabin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 1
Died: 1995
Died: November 4
Diplomat
Former Prime Minister Of Israel
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Jerusalem
Middle East
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This rally must send a message to the Israeli people, to the Jewish people around the world, to the many people in the Arab world, and indeed to the entire world, that the Israeli people want peace, support peace. For this, I thank you.
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You don't make friends with friends. You have got to make friends with your enemies.
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Indigenous programs and policy will come within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet because Indigenous policy and programs should not be an add - on, they should not be an afterthought, but they should be at the heart of a good Australian Government.
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Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.
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We'll fight terror like there's no peace, and make peace like there's no terror.
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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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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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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 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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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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We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.
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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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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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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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Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies.
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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.
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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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You have got to sit down and talk to people. You can't understand people from a distance.
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In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
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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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