117 Quotes by Yitzhak Rabin

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.

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

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

We have the right to ensure our security, especially when it is possible to reach agreement on a political solution.

What I, as the prime minister of the present government of Israel, started to do, is first to tackle the longest part of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

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.

There is no way of finding the middle ground, even with the best intentions of the world. Our most sensible policy is to stall.

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.

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