Moshe Dayan Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

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] Strip and Judea and Samaria. Anyone who has practical ideas or proposal to encourage emigration-let him speak up. No idea or proposal is to be dismissed out of hand.

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.

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 ultimate object of erecting the Israeli Empire.

If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.

If we lose this war, I'll just start another in my wife's name.

After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.

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

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

I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.

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

In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.

I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.