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
demanded efforts fighting rests security supreme
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.
aggravation advice arms
Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.
army thinking government
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 [Palestinian] 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.
palestine finished
There is no more Palestine. Finished.
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.