Yes to Peace, No to Violence.
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The main message is that in a democracy, assassination is not the means to change policy, ... Unfortunately, the assassin was right for a while, there was a freeze in process.Yitzhak Rabin
I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
Yitzhak Rabin
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.
Yitzhak Rabin
Of all hands in the world, it was not the hand that I wanted or dreamed of touching, ... We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our eyes, we who have attended their funerals and cannot look into the eyes of their parents, we who have come from a land where parents bury their children, we who have fought against you, the Palestinians - we say to you today in a loud and clear voice Enough of blood and tears. Enough. ...The time for peace has come.
Yitzhak Rabin
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
Yitzhak Rabin
Ariel Sharon finally decided when he took this position, the disengagement, that this is the only way, and he realized that this is the way to gain the support of the world, ... After doing the disengagement, Ariel Sharon came to the U.N. for the first time, he came from the feeling that the world is not against us anymore.
Yitzhak Rabin
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