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.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, speaking before the US Congress, July 1994. On 4th November 1994, he was assassinated by an Israeli ultra-nationalist, for signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestine Liberation Organisation. This is widely considered to have finished off the last best hope for a deal between Israel and the Palestinians.
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