Why don't you try to create a dialogue with those who reject your path? The answer is: We are prepared to engage anyone in dialogue but not to take part in creating tumult. The place to conduct a dialogue is here, in this building, the Knesset - a dialogue that should be conducted politely, with mutual attentiveness, with the understanding that national unity requires, even when the nation is riven with disagreements. We favor freedom of expression coupled with the discipline of the law - an argument of rationales, not of epithets. What we are creating today is a strategic change or, I would say, a historic turnabout. I understand the anguish of parting from the past and the fear of encountering a new tomorrow. But there is no yesterday that can recur and no tomorrow that will retreat because we are not ready to come to grips with it. What we are doing requires time, patience, overcoming of obstacles and prejudices, and clear view of the true horizon. Questions and answers by then-Foreign Minster Shimon Peres, presenting the Israeli-Palestinian Declaration of Principles to the Knesset on Oct 23, 1995
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