Israeli - Soldier | May 20, 1915 - October 16, 1981
Most important, don't do anything you don't want.
Moshe Dayan
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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 feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.
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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.
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We are a small nation, but strong.
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There is no more Palestine. Finished.
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The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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