Yaël Dayan Reflects on Working Toward Peace
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we have to do is just follow in the footsteps of Anwar Sadat,
of my late father, Moshe Dayan, and of Yitzhak Rabin. Those
who were assassinated, those who devoted their lives to
the one peace possible, believed in a homeland for all peoples
and the equality and dignity of human beings, not the expression
of false weapons and power. It is possible.
My father as well as Anwar Sadat and Yitzhak Rabin have
all been great heroes at war and maybe it takes the heroism
of war to know what the price of peace is. It is necessary
to understand the real price of war in order to understand
what we gain by signing peace. . . .
We can really turn this part of the world again into the
fertile crescent, again into a source of so much that is
of humanitarian value, and be a contribution to the world
the way that Anwar Sadat saw it and the way that Yitzhak
Rabin saw it. We are not going in any way to reward their
assassins. We are going to prove them wrong. We are going
to carry on in their footsteps.
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