Quotation from Moshe Dayan “The IDF is a decidedly offensive aggressive army” — Apr. 1967
Two months before the so-called “Six-Days War,” Moshe Dayan made it clear that the Israeli army was in an offensive mindset.
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"While the Israeli army is called a ‘defense force,’ it is not a defensive army…to put it simply: the Israel Defense Forces is a decidedly offensive aggressive army in thinking, planning, and execution, and this is in its bones and its spirit.
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Tom Segev, 1967, the War, and the Year that transformed the Middle East, Henry Holt, 2007, p. 155.
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