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Moshe Dayan
Israeli
Soldier
About the author
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.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Family
#Being
#Murder
#Water
#Beds
There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Country
#Population
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.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
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.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Power
#Worth
#Community
#Army
#Blood
Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Needs
We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Today
#Blood
To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Eye
There is no more Palestine. Finished.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Palestine
The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Old
Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Will
#Hatred
#Blood
We are a small nation, but strong.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Nation
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 geography books no longer exist.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Books
#Blame
#Names
#Geography
The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Punishment
Most important, don't do anything you don't want.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Want
Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#American
#Friends
#Money
#Advice
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.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Israel
#Purpose
#Land
#Soldiers
#Conquest
The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#War
#Fire
It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Democracy
#Majority
#Decisions
I have the strength to endure it all.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Strength
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.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Policy
#Strength
#Israel
#Power
#Cause
#Weakness
It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Heart
Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#World
#Israel
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Want
#Talk
#Peace
#Friends
#Enemies
If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Time
#Defense
I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Peace
#Road
I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Want
#Eye
#Road
I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Want
#Rest
I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Family
#Home
#Living
Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Freedom
#Soul
After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Time
#Life
#Children
I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.
Moshe Dayan,
Israeli
Soldier
#Life
#May
#Reality