To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger. Moshe Dayan More Quotes by Moshe Dayan More Quotes From Moshe Dayan 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 israel country book Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. Moshe Dayan patriotic 4th-of-july freedom Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice. Moshe Dayan aggravation arms advice Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother. Moshe Dayan mad israel dog What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived. Moshe Dayan eight eye years There is no more Palestine. Finished... Moshe Dayan palestine finished I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts. Moshe Dayan fields experts knowledge Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are the generation of colonizers and without the steel helmet and the gun barrel we cannot plant a tree and build a house. Moshe Dayan gun land eye 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. But 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... 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. Moshe Dayan army government thinking 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 village names country 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. Moshe Dayan military hands blood 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. Moshe Dayan hatred hands blood Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State. Moshe Dayan independence limits israel I know of nothing more exciting than war. Moshe Dayan exciting knows war Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population. Moshe Dayan population army israel I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer. Moshe Dayan eye want looks Most important, don't do anything you don't want. Moshe Dayan important want If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week. Moshe Dayan fog defense lasts Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor. Moshe Dayan aggressors israel world 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. Moshe Dayan gun house tree
