Yitzhak Rabin Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

  Yitzhak Rabin (1996). “The Rabin Memoirs”, p.189, Univ of California Press

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• Steps toward a rapprochement between Israel and the Arab states create a process that turns economics into the moving force that shapes the regional relations instead of nationalist interests that were dominant in the past.

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  Moving, Past, Israel

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• Vis a vis the Golan Heights, the present government of Israel, under my leadership, is the first government that is ready to speak about a withdrawal.

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  Government, Israel, Withdrawal

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• 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

  Doe, Height, Compromise

  Yitzhak Rabin, Efraim Inbar, Merkaz Besa le-meḥḳarim asṭraṭegiyim (1996). “Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue”

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• I admire King Hussein his courage in leading his country for a long time.

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  Country, Kings, Long

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• 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.

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  Lying, Moving, Believe

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• We accept every form or way to talk to the Syrians how to achieve peace.

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  Way, Achieve, Accepting

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• There are two phases of the redeployment of the Israeli forces in the West Bank: One, to allow elections. Second, after the elections, to help further redeployment.

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  Two, Phases, West

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• 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.

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  Country, Strong, Reality

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• Peace with Syria would provide more security than a few settlements on the Golan.

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  Settlement, Syria, Security

  Yitzhak Rabin, Efraim Inbar, Merkaz Besa le-meḥḳarim asṭraṭegiyim (1996). “Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue”

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• 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.

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  Israel, People, Support

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• I invite President Assad to come to Jerusalem and to speak with me, with our parliament, with whomever he wants to speak in Israel and in the territories among the Palestinians.

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  Israel, President, Jerusalem

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• We have to recognize that there is a Palestinian entity, that the PLO and the Palestinian Authority has to run their life.

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  Running, Authority, Entity

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• The Government chose to give peace a chance. The Government chose to do something to achieve it.

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  Government, Israel, Giving

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• We appreciate the efforts of the United States, of the president, of the secretary of state, and we are ready to find any form of talks, but we have to overcome the differences between Syria and Israel to reach peace.

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  Israel, Differences, Appreciate

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• Syria doesn't want to talk with us on a bilateral basis, only under the auspices of the United States.

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  United States, Want, Syria

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• 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.

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  War, Prevention, Tests

  Yitzhak Rabin, Efraim Inbar, Merkaz Besa le-meḥḳarim asṭraṭegiyim (1996). “Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue”

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• One of my theories about why we've been cranky is Australians have been forced to focus on politics or party politics a little bit more than they normally would.

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  Party, Focus, Littles

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• A couple of things are missing from Indigenous affairs. We tend to go and process, we tend to spend a lot of money for very limited outcomes, and we have got to change that.

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  Couple, Missing, Outcomes

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• I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom you disagreed, which was basically anybody over the age of 30, "One of the great minds of the 12th century", and one day I thought, "I don't know anything about the 12 century." So I started buying books, reading about it, and I discovered it was a period of great flowering, it was a Renaissance before what we think is the Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance of the 16th century.

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  Book, Reading, Italian

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• Indigenous programs and policy will come within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet because Indigenous policy and programs should not be an add - on, they should not be an afterthought, but they should be at the heart of a good Australian Government.

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  Heart, Government, Add

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I think the fact that we have been focussing on politics quite a lot and the tumult of politics rather than what we should be doing in terms of policy has made, I think, voters quite grumpy.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Thinking, Voters, Facts

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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