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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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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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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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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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