Moshe Dayan

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

“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.”

“We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today.”

“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.”

“I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.”

“It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”