经典名人英语演讲稿19：以色列总理拉宾1994年在接受诺贝尔和平奖时的演讲

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[00:04.31]19. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1994 Received the Nobel Peace Prize in the Speech
[00:14.00]Since I don't believe that there was any precedent that one person got the Nobel Prize twice, 
[00:20.78]allow me on this opportunity to attach to this prestigious award, a personal touch. 
[00:27.12]At an age when most youngsters are struggling to unravel the secrets of mathematics and the mysteries of the Bible; 
[00:33.39]at an age when first love blooms; at the tender age of sixteen, I was handed a rifle so that I could defend myself.
[00:43.92]That was not my dream. 
[00:45.20]I wanted to be a water enginêer. 
[00:48.24]I studied in an agricultural school and I thought being a water engineer was an important profession in the parched Middle East. 
[00:56.88]I still think so today. However, I was compelled to resort to the gun. 
[01:00.36]I served in the military for decades. Under my responsibility, young men and women who wanted to live, wanted to love, 
[01:12.38]went to their deaths instead. 
[01:15.57]They fell in the defense of our lives. 
[01:18.34]Ladies and Gentlemen, 
[01:23.75]In my current position, I have ample opportunity to fly over the State of Israel, 
[01:26.30]and lately over other parts of the Middle East as well. 
[01:30.25]The view from the plane is breathtaking; deep-blue seas and lakes, 
[01:34.64]dark-green fields, dune-colored deserts, stone-gray mountains, 
[01:40.31]and the entire countryside peppered with white-washed, red-roofed houses. 
[01:45.25]And also cemeteries. 
[01:47.38]Graves as far as the eye can see. 
[01:50.50]Hundreds of cemeteries in our part of the world, in the Middle East―in our home in Israel, 
[01:57.35]but also in Egypt, in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon. 
[02:01.20]From the plane's window, from the thousands of feet above them, 
[02:05.10]the countless tombstones are silent. 
[02:07.28]But the sound of their outcry has carried from the Middle East throughout the world for decades.

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经典名人英语演讲稿19：以色列总理拉宾1994年在接受诺贝尔和平奖时的演讲