Yitzhak Rabin
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“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.”
“You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.”
“Enough of blood and tears. Enough!”
“Yes to Peace, No to Violence.”
“Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Along with the death of his mother,”
“I don't think he would have been able to bridge the great differences between the Palestinians and Israel.”
“What he did right now, pulling out of Gaza, is in the same path of my father's concept,”