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
palestine finished
There is no more Palestine. Finished.
hands gaza-strip ideas
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.
israel world aggressors
Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.
eye want looks
I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.
government israel causes
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.
dog wish may
We have no solution... You [Palestinians] shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave, and we will see where this process leads.
knowledge fields experts
I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts.
fog defense lasts
If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.
long want calm
I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.
funny war names
If we lose this war, I'll just start another in my wife's name.
israel independence limits
Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.
war lying army
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.
army israel would-be
Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population.
decision democracy majority
It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.