Moshe Dayan Quotes
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I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.
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What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived.
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We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds. But it was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying... It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.
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To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.
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During the last 100 years our people have been in a process of building up the country and the nation, of expansion, of getting additional Jews and additional settlements in order to expand the borders here. Let no Jew say that the process has ended. Let no Jew say that we are near the end of the road.
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It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.
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In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.
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The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.
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After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.
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I know of nothing more exciting than war.
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Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population.
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We came here to a country that was populated by Arabs and we are building here a Hebrew, a Jewish state; instead of the Arab villages, Jewish villages were established. You even do not know the names of those villages, and I do not blame you because these villages no longer exist. There is not a single Jewish settlement that was not established in the place of a former Arab Village.
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Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are the generation of colonizers and without the steel helmet and the gun barrel we cannot plant a tree and build a house.
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There is no more Palestine. Finished...
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It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.
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I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.
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Most important, don't do anything you don't want.
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Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.
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I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.
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Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist; not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahalal arose in the place of Mahalul, Gevat - in the place of Jibta, Sarid - in the place of Haneifs and Kefar Yehoshua - in the place of Tell Shaman. There is no one place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.
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It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective.
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Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.
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If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.
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It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the ultimate object of erecting the Israeli Empire.
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Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.
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We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.
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Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.
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Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
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We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves... Let us make our reckoning today.
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I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts.
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Moshe Dayan
- Born: May 20, 1915
- Died: October 16, 1981
- Occupation: Defense Minister of Israel
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