Rabin on a Jewish Majority, Arab Lawmakers and the Peace Process

The government relies on the votes of Arab members of the Knesset, and I ask you: are you convinced they are completely free from Arafat's influence?

The question of whether you have a Jewish majority is one of the questions that angers me most, because in my view, Judaism and racism are fundamentally opposed to each other.

What would happen if they said in the U.S. Congress that Jewish senators and Jewish members of Congress vote for Israel at Israel's behest?

Would you like that?

I think what's happening today, all the Jewish racist theories.

The Jews were the ones persecuted for their religion, discriminated against.

We are in a Jewish state, subject to discrimination.

Mr. Rabin, but you know, President of the State Ezer Weizman, he was the one who said that a majority of sixty- one is problematic for fateful decisions.

I'd rather accept the saying of the late Menachem Begin, that in a democracy, a majority of one is still a majority.

And to leave you with no doubts, as long as the government I lead has a majority of one, I will go and carry out what I believe in.

In the peace process with the Palestinians and the Syrians.