Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayan
Moshe Dayanwas an Israeli military leader and politician. He was the second child born on the first kibbutz, but he moved with his family in 1921, and he grew up on a moshav. As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forcesduring the 1956 Suez Crisis, but mainly as Defense Minister during the Six-Day War in 1967, he became to the world a fighting symbol of the new state of...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth20 May 1915
CityDegania Alef, Israel
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The supreme efforts will be demanded of you, the troops, fighting in the air, on the land, and on the sea. Our security rests with you.
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I make no pretenses. I'm studying day and night in order to complete my B.A. in less than two years, but I manage to be in Tel Aviv on the weekend.
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The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.
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Supreme efforts must be made to acquire more arms and ammunitions until the date of the clash, but one thing must not be made dependent on the other.
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I have the strength to endure it all.
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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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Arabs cross to collect the grain that they left in the abandoned villages and we set mines for them and they go back without an arm or a leg.
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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.
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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.
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It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective.
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After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.
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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.
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Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population.
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It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.