“PEACE IS NOT THE ENTERPRISE OF JUST ONE PERSON – IT IS THE ACHIEVEMENT OF MANY”

 

Rabin thanks a supporter after he is chosen as a laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize: “Our efforts to realize our dream of both living in peace is our inheritance to our children, both Palestinian and Israeli. The work, however, is not yet finished. The Nobel Peace Prize is for future generations, more than it is a reward for the achievements we have made towards peace this far. I am hopeful that with continued cooperation and dialogue, our two peoples can overcome the obstacles place by those who oppose co-existence.” 

 

Rabin approved the Oslo Accords, negotiated in secret in Norway in 1993, stipulating that Israel would gradually withdraw from occupied lands. The agreement was signed in Washington D. C. in the same year, and Rabin shared the Peace Prize with his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shimon Peres, and the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.