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" I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past. "
Yitzhak Rabin
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" Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living. "
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" We do not celebrate the death of our enemies. "
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