Idf Quotes

• If you can't get up for an old woman on the bus, you can't be an officer in the IDF.

  Moshe Ya'alon

  Get Up, Bus, Old Woman

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• Israel is surrounded by a raging sea, parts of which are not willing to accept us as a partner with equal rights among the nations. The reality we live in presents us with profound challenges, the need to effectively use all of our resources, and the need to prepare for any development, near or far. The IDF will protect the security and the future of the state. The IDF will provide the response when the order is given.

  Ehud Barak

  Reality, Rights, Israel

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• If Israel sent the IDF three kilometers into Lebanon and started digging trenches and building bunkers it would make news all over the world. But Syria does it and everyone shrugs. Hardly anyone even knows it happened at all.

  Michael Totten

  Israel, Doe, Digging

  "Syria Invades Lebanon". www.michaeltotten.com. July 9, 2007.

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• According to what the
  IDF says to its soldiers. I
  don't know if this is
  what the IDF says to the
  media.

  Amira Hass

  Media, Soldier, Knows

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• Another touchy point: the inability of successive Israeli governments to deal with the propaganda war. Israel has a brilliant instrument in the IDF. We have a cyber-war unit which may become the best unit in the world to fight cyber problems. On the propaganda war...it is a large failure.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  War, Fighting, Government

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous work of Israeli dissenters and-most unforgivably-increased the risk of another merciless IDF assault.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Law, Justice, Risk

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• Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population.

  Moshe Dayan

  Army, Israel, Population

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