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Quotes by Yitzhak Rabin

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
Enough of blood and tears. Enough!
– Yitzhak Rabin
I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.
– Yitzhak Rabin
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
I considered the prevention of war as the test of our security policy; in addition to being able to rapidly and forcefully end any war forced upon us.
– Yitzhak Rabin
Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.
– Yitzhak Rabin
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
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
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
There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.
– Yitzhak Rabin
We have to pass one year in our relationship with the United States by walking on tiptoes. If we pass successfully the year 1975 and we will reach 1976, we will gain not one year but two.
– Yitzhak Rabin
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
You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavoury enemies.
– Yitzhak Rabin
We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
– Yitzhak Rabin
We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.
– Yitzhak Rabin
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
Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.
– Yitzhak Rabin
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