Quotes by Yitzhak Rabin

“You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.”

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

“We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.”

“We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.”

“Give peace a chance.”

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

“We did not think that 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.”

“I would like Gaza to sink into the sea, but that won’t happen, and a solution must be found.”

“We are destined to live together, on the same soil in the same land. We, the soldiers who have returned from battle stained with blood, we who have seen our relatives and friends killed before our ...”

“One does not make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemy.”

“Violence gnaws on the foundation of democracy. It must be condemned, denounced and Isolated.”

“You are not part of the community of Israel... You are not part of the national democratic camp which we all belong to in this house, and many of the people despise you. You are not partners in the...”

“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...”

“Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.”

“Almost all the regimes which did not place Man and the sanctity of Life at the heart of their world view, all those regimes have collapsed and are no more. You can see it for yourselves in our own ...”

“Here we stand before you, men who fate and history have sent on a mission of peace to end once and for all 100 years of bloodshed. Our dream is also your dream -- King Hussein, President Mubarak, C...”

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Pale...”

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreeme...”

“Mr. Rabin, in a precarious political situation at home, seemed unable to put a full stop to all construction in the territories, at least until final borders could be demarcated.”

“We later learned that Rabin had not been killed by a Palestinian after all. Instead he had been shot in the back by an Israeli law student.”