Zitat des Tages von Menachem Begin:
We attacked selected military targets of the P.L.O. Around, civilians were hurt, I don't want to deny it. Very regrettable, very regrettable. We regret it deeply.
We want a full peace, normalization in all fields.
You want me to become a leaker? I'm not. I do not leak any news from the Cabinet sessions.
I come to Jerusalem. There, the sky is blue and memory becomes clear.
There are those who say we must rescind the Golan Heights law that was passed in the Knesset. To rescind is a concept from the days of the Inquisition. Our forefathers were burned at the stake and would not rescind their faith.
You annex foreign land, not your own country.
We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate.
After 1957, Israel had to wait 10 full years for its flag to fly again over that liberated portion of the homeland.
There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore.
We do not covet one inch of Lebanese territory, and the basis for the peace treaty between our two countries will be the international border, which exists now, between Rosh Haniqra and Ras en Naqura.
The framework for peace signed by Egypt and Israel is almost a peace treaty. We solved the problem for the peace treaty 98%.
In peace, the Middle East, the ancient cradle of civilization, will become invigorated and transformed. Throughout its lands there will be freedom of movement of people, of ideas, of goods.
The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.
The Palestinian Arabs will have their autonomy, we will have our security. We shall live together.
My colleagues and I have gone in the footsteps of our predecessors since the very first day we were called by our people to care for their future. We went any place, we looked for any avenue, we made any effort to bring about negotiations between Israel and its neighbors, negotiations without which peace remains an abstract desire.
