Rabin, Yitzhak (1922-1995)
Né/born Nehemiah Rubitzov
- Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state” — Oct. 5 1995
Speech to the Knesset, defines his Bantustan project. - Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “Next to it, a Palestinian entity, less than a state, that runs the life of Palestinians” — Sep. 30 1995
In CNN's Evans and Novack program of September 30, 1995, expressing its opposition to a sovereign Palestinian State. - Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “We cannot keep having this mixture of Jews and Arabs” — Nov. 20 1994
In the aftermath of a Hamas attack in Tel Aviv. - Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “Expel… 25, not to mention 400 people” — Feb. 8 1993
44 years after ordering the mass expulsion of Palestinians from Lydda, Yitzhak Rabin boasted to a BBC reporter that he had illegally thrown 415 Palestinians, alleged members of the Hamas party, out of their country. - Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “I would like Gaza to sink into the sea” — Sep. 2 1992
Then Prime Minister, to a delegation from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in Jerusalem. - Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “Break their bones” — Jan. 1988
Former General turned Minister of Defense, gives informal instructions to army commanders about young Palestinian stone-throwers. - Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “The Yom Kippur war was not fought … to threaten the existence of Israel” — 1988
Rabin indicates the limited objectives of the Yom Kippur War of 1973. - Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “5,600 are currently in prison. Are these trivial numbers” — 1988
During an election debate in 1988, showing the general's shell under the politician's tie. - Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “Conditions which would attract natural and voluntary migration of the refugees” — Mar. 16 1983
Explaining his method of ethnically cleansing the occupied territories without the world shouting. - Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “If we don’t want to get to apartheid” — 1976
In an interview shown in the film "Rabin in his own words", where he compares colonies to cancer. - Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “I do not believe that Nasser wanted war” — Feb. 28 1968
Then Chief of Staff of the army. Interview in the daily Le Monde. - Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “Most of them … can be driven out. If the numbers were smaller it would be easier” — 1956
In a meeting with Ben Gurion, shortly before his appointment to the Army Northern Command. - Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “The inhabitants of Lydda must be expelled quickly without attention to age” — Jul. 12 1948
As the general leading "Operation Dany", an ethnic cleansing operation to expand the Jewish state, giving the order to implement the expulsion order given the same day with a simple wave of the hand. - Quotation from Yitzhak Rabin “Ben Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said, "Drive them out!"” — Jul. 12 1948
Commenting in his service book of July 12-13, 1948 on the way Ben Gurion gave the order to expel the Palestinians from Lydda.