Moshe Dayan Quotes

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• I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• It is not in our hands to prevent the murder of workers… and families… but it is in our hands to fix a high price…
• After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.
• I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.
• I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.
• 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…
• The proposed policy [of raising the level of public service in the occupied territories] may clash with our intention to encourage emigration from both [Gaza]…
• 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…
• We have no solution... You [Palestinians] shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave, and we will see where this process leads.
• 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…
• 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…
• Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.
• Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.
• Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population.
• It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.
• Most important, don't do anything you don't want.
• A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez…

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