Yitzhak rabin

You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.

I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state...

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.

Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.

I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the...

Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.

Give peace a chance.

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.