Frases de Isaac Rabin

„Yo quisiera firmar un acuerdo de paz con el Príncipe de Mónaco y la Reina de Holanda, pero la paz se firma con los enemigos y Arafat es el principal enemigo.“

Juez del asesino de Isaac Rabin
Otras

„La violencia corrompe la base de la democracia israelí. Debe ser condenada, denunciada y aislada.“

„Existe apenas una manera radical de preservar al ser humano. Sin armaduras, tanques, aviones o fortificaciones de concreto. La solución radical, señoras y señores, se llama Paz!“

„Como militar y comandante, yo di órdenes a centenas, probablemente un sin número de operaciones. Y junto con la alegría de la victoria y el dolor del fracaso, yo deberé siempre recordar del instante preciso enseguida después de tomada la decisión para ejecutar alguna acción: la correría con que los oficiales y ministros lentamente se levantan de sus asientos; el mirar de sus espaldas, el sonido del golpe de la puerta, y enseguida, el silencio en que permaneceré solo.“

„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 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.“

Speech to the US Congress (26 July 1994)
Contexto: 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 are destined to live together, on the same soil in the same land.“

As quoted in Le Monde (28 February 1968), when he was Chief of General Staff for Israel

„We say to you today in a loud and clear voice: Enough of blood and tears. Enough.
We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men. We are today giving peace a chance and again saying to you in a clear voice: Enough.“

Excerpts of PM Rabin Knesset Speech (21 September 1993) https://web.archive.org/web/20040825072435/http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Archive/Speeches/EXCERPTS%20OF%20PM%20RABIN%20KNESSET%20SPEECH%20-DOP-%20-%2021-Sep
Contexto: We are destined to live together, on the same soil in the same land. 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.
We have no desire for revenge. We harbor no hatred towards you. We, like you, are people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men. We are today giving peace a chance and again saying to you in a clear voice: Enough.

„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.“

„We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority. The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.“

Ratification of the Israel–Palestinian Interim Agreement Speech in the Knesset (5 October 1995)

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

Ratification of the Israel–Palestinian Interim Agreement Speech in the Knesset (5 October 1995) http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/1990_1999/1995/10/PM%20Rabin%20in%20Knesset-%20Ratification%20of%20Interim%20Agree

„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.“

1994 Nobel Peace Prize lecture http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1994/rabin-lecture.html (10 December 1994)