6 Moshe Dayan Quotes on Moshe dayan

Moshe Dayan quotes on moshe dayan

5. We have no solution, you shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave, and we will see where this process leads.

13. During the last 100 years our people have been in a process of building up the country and the nation, of expansion, of getting additional Jews and additional settlements in order to expand the borders here. Let no Jew say that the process has ended. Let no Jew say that we are near the end of the road.

15. I know of nothing more exciting than war.

17. Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.

22. Dayan didn't want the government to allow the kibbutzim to build there afterwards - he hoped to trade it back for peace.

23. Moshe Dayan unfolded one plan after another for direct action. The first - what should be done to force open blockade of the Gulf of Eilat. A ship flying the Israeli flag should be sent, and if the Egyptians bomb it, we should bomb the Egyptian base from the air, or conquer Ras al-Naqb, or open our way south of Gaza Strip to the coast. There was a general uproar. I asked Moshe: Do you realize that this would mean war with Egypt?, he said: Of course.