(IsraelNationalNews.com) “Tell me please, Mr. Foreign Minister [Peres] and Mr. Defense Minister [Rabin, who was also Prime Minister], how will you prevent a little van traveling within Arafat’s Yesha areas from loading up with katyushas and shooting towards the coastal cities? How will you prevent [katyushas from being shot towards] Ashkelon, Netivot, S’derot, Ofakim, and Ashdod?” — September 1993, Likud MK Moshe Katzav during the fateful Knesset session in which the Oslo Agreement was accepted.

Answer by Rabin

“We know all the scare-stories of the Likud. They promised [when the first Oslo agreement was signed] that there would be katyushas from Gaza. It’s been a year already that the Gaza is mostly under PA control, and there haven’t been any katyushas, and there won’t be any… The Likud is simply scared to death of peace, and for this reason is reacting in a truly childish manner.” — 1995, the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The original Hebrew recording can be heard at

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