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Rabin Tells Students Peace in Mideast Does Not Require U.S. Troops

March 19, 1971
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Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Ambassador to the United States, today issued a call for a “peace in the Middle East that does not call for the presence of American forces in the area to neutralize Soviet forces, but rather complete the evacuation of all Soviet troops and facilities” Speaking before more than 800 students and faculty members at Brooklyn College, he declared: “We will never accept the promise that national suicide is an international obligation.”

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