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Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were attacked five times, outgunned, outnumbered, on a small piece of land, and our main challenge was to remain alive.

— Shimon Peres

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Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently. I prefer to live as an optimist.

India and Israel are co-operating on security and intelligence matters because we have a common enemy: terrorism.

If world is suspicious that Israel may detonate nuclear bomb and if the suspicion is a deterrent — that's good enough.

I will confine myself to reaffirming the Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons to the region.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact, not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

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