We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

There were no such thing as Palestinians. When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the Fi…