Yitzhak Rabin famous quotes

We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Hands #Population #Done

I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of peace , I, who have sent armies into fire and soldiers to their death , say today: We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in the war for peace.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Peace #War #Army

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

#Military #Believe #Men

We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Thinking #World #Definitions

Here, in the Land of Israel, we returned and built a nation. Here, in the Land of Israel, we established a State. The Land of the prophets, which bequeathed to the world the values of morality, law and justice, was after two thousand years, restored to its lawful owner - the members of the Jewish People, On its Land, we have built an exceptional national Home and State.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Home #Israel #Years

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.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Children #Eye #Blood

But, more than anything, in the more than three years of this Government's existence, the Israeli people has proven that it is possible to make peace, that peace opens the door to a better economy and society; that peace is not just a prayer. Peace is first of all in our prayers, but it is also the aspiration of the Jewish people, a genuine aspiration for peace.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Prayer #Government #Israel

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.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Israel #People #Support

We can continue to fight. We can continue to kill - and continue to be killed. But we can also try to put a stop to this never-ending cycle of blood. We can also give peace a chance.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Fighting #Israel #Blood

The Government chose to give peace a chance. The Government chose to do something to achieve it.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Israel #Government #Giving

Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Israel #Important #Principles

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.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Eye #Israel #Interest

We'll fight terror like there's no peace, and make peace like there's no terror.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Fighting #Terror #Making Peace

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

#Military #Army #Numbers

Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Jerusalem #United

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

#Ideas #Long #Able

Peace has no borders.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Peace #Borders

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

#Struggle #Israel #Weapons

It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Agreement #Paper #Sides

Peace is not made with friends. Peace is made with enemies.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Enemy #Made

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Hymns #Enemy #Celebrate Life

Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Journey #Israel #People

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

#Real #Aquariums #Steps

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Islam #Development #Dry

Peace will be victorious.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Peace

Enough of blood and tears. Enough!
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Blood #Tears #Enough

[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

#Kings #Israel #Agreement

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Military #Leader #World

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Believe #Government #I Believe

I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Israel #Years #Jerusalem

I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Lying #Moving #Believe

I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Running #Believe #Israel

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.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Israel #Two #People

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

#Fighting #Debate #Midst

We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Community #Population #Waiter

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.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Israel #West #States

If you have the same problem for a long time, maybe it's not a problem. Maybe it's a fact.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Long #Facts #Problem

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

#Children #Agreement #Blood

The use of force, including beatings, undoubtedly has brought about the impact we wanted - strengthening the [occupied] population's fear of the Israeli Defense Forces.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Impact #Population #Defense

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.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Country #Strong #Reality

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.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#War #Thinking #Two