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Rafael Eitan, who died this morning, rarely gave interviews of late. One of these – with the "Iton Tel Aviv" newspaper in January of this year – were reprinted by Ynet today. Excerpts: "My opinion is that all these efforts [referring to Sharon's disengagement plan – ed.] are for naught. With the Arabs, we will never be able to make peace... This is a struggle between civilizations. We are a foreign culture, and in my opinion, Islam will never make peace with our foreign entity, and with the fact that it has political independence and even defeats them in wars....

My brother and sisters of Israel, "If you will it - it is no legend." With these words, Theodor Herzl concluded his novel "Altneuland" about the imaginary, Utopian Jewish State, And with these simple words, Herzl turned his modest novel into a vision; and his image was carved forever on the heart of the nation as a visionary. - The visionary of the Jewish State. Little by little, this vision grew. First of all, with the modest, very existential, aspiration for any piece of land. A safe haven. A refuge from anti-Semitism - and this might even be Uganda. And...