I was a military man for 27 years. I fought so long as there was no chance for peace. We must take advantage of it, for the sake of those standing here and for those who are not here, and they are many. I have always believed that the majority of the people want peace and are ready to take risks for peace. In coming here today, you demonstrate together with many others who did not come, that the people truly desire peace and oppose violence.
Violence erodes the basis of Israeli democracy.
It must be condemned and isolated. This is not the way of the State of Israel. In a democracy there can be differences, but the final decision will be taken in democratic elections, as the 1992 elections, which gave us the mandate to do what we are doing and to continue on this course. I want to thank the President of Egypt, the King of Jordan, the King of Morocco, represented here today, for their partnership with us in our march toward peace. That which dreamers or perhaps madmen only, could have imagined or talked about just a few years ago, took place below the granite covered grave of Herzel.