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1922–1995 Israel
Yitzhak Rabin (1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was an Israeli general, statesman and prime minister, who won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize (together with Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat). He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995, by a right-wing Israeli radical opposed to Rabin's signing of the Oslo Accords.
Israel Military leaders Nobel laureates Also known as: Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, Rabin, Yitzhak
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We are destined to live together, on the same soil in the same land.
I would like Gaza to sink into the sea, but that won’t happen, and a solution must be found.
We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in — the war for peace.
One does not make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemy.
Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.
Violence gnaws on the foundation of democracy. It must be condemned, denounced and Isolated.
I, serial number 30743, Lieutenant General in reserves Yitzhak Rabin, a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces and in the army of peace, I, who have sent armies into fire and soldiers to their death, say today: We sail onto a war which has no casualties, no wounded, no blood nor suffering. It is the only war which is a pleasure to participate in — the war for peace.
We all love the same children, weep the same tears, hate the same enmity, and pray for reconciliation. Peace has no borders.
Almost all the regimes which did not place Man and the sanctity of Life at the heart of their world view, all those regimes have collapsed and are no more. You can see it for yourselves in our own day.
We did not think that Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent to Sinai on May 14 would not have been sufficient to launch an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it.
I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.
Our neighbors, the Palestinian people, we who have seen you in your difficulties, we saw you for generations; we who have killed and have been killed are walking beside you now toward a common future, and we want you as a good neighbors.
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