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Violence gnaws on the foundation of democracy. It must be condemned, denounced and Isolated.

— Yitzhak Rabin

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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.

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