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You have got to sit down and talk to people. You can't understand people from a distance.

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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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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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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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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[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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Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.
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A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.
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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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The negotiations must address all aspects, both peace and withdrawal.
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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.
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Peace will be victorious.
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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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Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.
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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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The Government chose to give peace a chance. The Government chose to do something to achieve it.
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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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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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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 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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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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We accept every form or way to talk to the Syrians how to achieve peace.
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