Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin; 1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth1 March 1922
CityJerusalem, Israel
CountryIsrael
path pulling
What he did right now, pulling out of Gaza, is in the same path of my father's concept,
israeli relative ripe smooth society surprised took
We were all surprised how smooth it went, relative to what was expected. It took Israeli society time, 10 years, to become ripe for such a move,
thinking voters facts
I think the fact that we have been focussing on politics quite a lot and the tumult of politics rather than what we should be doing in terms of policy has made, I think, voters quite grumpy.
heart government add
Indigenous programs and policy will come within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet because Indigenous policy and programs should not be an add - on, they should not be an afterthought, but they should be at the heart of a good Australian Government.
party focus littles
One of my theories about why we've been cranky is Australians have been forced to focus on politics or party politics a little bit more than they normally would.
book reading thinking
I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom you disagreed, which was basically anybody over the age of 30, "One of the great minds of the 12th century", and one day I thought, "I don't know anything about the 12 century." So I started buying books, reading about it, and I discovered it was a period of great flowering, it was a Renaissance before what we think is the Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance of the 16th century.
couple missing outcomes
A couple of things are missing from Indigenous affairs. We tend to go and process, we tend to spend a lot of money for very limited outcomes, and we have got to change that.
enemy
You don't make friends with friends. You have got to make friends with your enemies.
couple beer past
I'm not saying Christopher Pyne and all them are my enemies, they're great blokes, shouted me a few beers a couple of times which I like, it's - we have got to sit down with the people like that. We have got to sit down with people like that and negotiate and work our way through. If we don't do that then we're just going to continue the sins of the past.
lying moving believe
I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
real aquariums steps
A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.
israel important principles
Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security.