Yitzhak Shamir Quotes

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

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.

You don't make peace with your friends. That's the bottom line. You end conflicts by trying to find some political resolution.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

If you are going to make peace, you can't just meet nice people.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.

The time is right for a political solution and the way is negotiations.

I think placing preconditions before negotiations is the quickest way to undermine peace.

There is nothing that I'd love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission.

We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks.

Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.

There is not going to be a peace process unless there is talks involving Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas, and I think everyone knows that.

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.

Jaw jaw is better than war war.

Jaw-jaw is better than war-war.

There is no such thing as a conflict that cannot be ended.

Believe me, it is much harder to make peace than war.

I'm in the government to make sure that if there's an opportunity to make peace, it won't be missed.

Our problem with Israel is that its leaders always talk about war and security but never about peace.

Whenever you have political conflict, such as the one that we have now between Russia and Ukraine, but also in many other conflicts around the world, it has always proved to be right to try again and again to solve such a conflict.

History has proved that the most ardent enemies have settled their differences through talks and not war.

I hope everybody will go back to the negotiating table. I've always said this is the only way forward.