Moshe Dayan Quotes

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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.

  Moshe Dayan

  Eye, Eight, Years

  "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World". Book by Avi Shlaim, 2000.

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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.

  Moshe Dayan

  Eye, Gun, Land

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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.

  Moshe Dayan

  Country, Book, Israel

  Moshe Dayan's address to the students at Technion University in Haifa, Israel (March 19, 1969), a transcription of which appeared in Ha'aretz (April 4, 1969); later quoted in Edward W. Said "The Question of Palestine" (p. 14), 1980.

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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.

  Moshe Dayan

  Aggravation, Advice, Arms

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• 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.

  Moshe Dayan

  Dog, Wish, May

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• Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.

  Moshe Dayan

  Dog, Israel, Mad

  "On Israel Flattening Beirut: There is Nothing New Under the Sun" by Halim Shebaya, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 25, 2016.

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• The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

  Moshe Dayan

  Punishment, Method, Collectives

  "Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999". Book by Benny Morris, 1999.

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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.

  Moshe Dayan

  Country, Names, Village

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• 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 for our blood, so high that the Arab community and the Arab military forces will not be willing to pay it.

  Moshe Dayan

  Military, Blood, Hands

  "Warrior: An Autobiography". Book by Ariel Sharon and David Chanoff, 1989.

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• Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

  Moshe Dayan

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Moshe Dayan (1992). “Moshe Dayan: Story of My Life”, Da Capo Press

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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.

  Moshe Dayan

  Knowledge, Experts, Fields

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• There is no more Palestine. Finished...

  Moshe Dayan

  Palestine, Finished

  Time Magazine, July 30, 1973.

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• To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.

  Moshe Dayan

  Eye, Needs, Fingers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.

  Moshe Dayan

  Israel, Independence, Limits

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• I know of nothing more exciting than war.

  Moshe Dayan

  War, Exciting, Knows

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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.

  Moshe Dayan

  Army, Thinking, Government

  "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World". Book by Avi Shlaim, 2000.

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• Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.

  Moshe Dayan

  Israel, World, Aggressors

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• I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.

  Moshe Dayan

  Eye, Looks, Want

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• Most important, don't do anything you don't want.

  Moshe Dayan

  Important, Want

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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.

  Moshe Dayan

  Gun, House, Tree

  "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World". Book by Avi Shlaim, 2000.

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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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• 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

  Blood, Hands, Hatred

  "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World". Book by Avi Shlaim, 2000.

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• There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

  Moshe Dayan

  Country, Israel, Cleansing

  "The Racism Barrier" by M.Junaid Alam, www.counterpunch.org. October 3, 2003.

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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.

  Moshe Dayan

  Country, Building Up, Order

  Ma'ariv (July 7, 1968); later quoted in Avi Shlaim "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World", 2000.

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• 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 Canal.

  Moshe Dayan

  Strong, Government, Israel

  Moshe Dayan's statement from the peaks of Massada (April 1973), as quoted in Avi Shlaim "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World", 2000.

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