More - Yitzhak Rabin Quotes

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

 

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

 

We are very much aware that many Israeli schools are not obeying the law to commemorate the assassination,

Yitzhak Rabin

 Assassination

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

Yitzhak Rabin

 Israel Israeli Statesman

What he did right now, pulling out of Gaza, is in the same path of my father's concept,

Yitzhak Rabin

 

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

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

 Israeli Statesman

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

 

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

 Israeli Statesman

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

 Agreement