117 Quotes by Yitzhak Rabin

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

Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.

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

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

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.

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.

I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

I believe however that peace is attainable regardless of the Arabs mentality, society or government.

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.