Dayan, Moshe (1915-1981)
- Quotation from Moshe Dayan “Knew in advance that the Syrians would start to shoot” — 1981
Explains in 1976 to a young journalist, Rami Tal, the technique for provoking violent "reprisals" before 1967 following a response to graduated provocations. - [wrong] Words attributed to Moshe Dayan “We're here and you're in Washington” — 1979
Apocryphal or wrong quotation or doubtful. - Quotation from Moshe Dayan “Not one single place built … that did not have a former Arab population” — Apr. 4 1969
Talking about the creation of settlements in the period 1921-1927 on land purchased in the valley of Marj Ibn Amir / Jezreel. Often quoted incomplete about the villages destroyed after 1948. - Quotation from Moshe Dayan “All our settlements are built on the ruins of Palestinian villages” — Apr. 1969
Talking to students of the Haifa Technion about the Palestinian villages destroyed in 1948. - Quotation from Moshe Dayan “The settlements established in the territories are there forever,” — 1969
Two years after the conquest of 1967, already announces the project of annexations. - Quotation from Moshe Dayan “To expand the borders here. Let no Jew say that the process has ended” — Jul. 7 1968
Then Minister of Defense, announcing the Zionist program in the aftermath of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. - Quotation from Moshe Dayan “After the present cease-fire lines, there will be new ones” — Jul. 5 1968
Then Minister of Defense, in front of the young people of the kibbutzim gathered on the Golan Heights. - Quotation from Moshe Dayan “Let ... say that we don't have a solution and you will continue living like dogs” — Sep. 1967
Israeli Defense Minister, at a meeting of the Rafi (extremist wing of the Labor coalition), in response to Shimon Peres, about refugees in the occupied territories. - Quotation from Moshe Dayan “If one considers oneself as the people of the Bible, one should possess the Biblical lands” — Aug. 10 1967
In a statement reported by the Jerusalem Post, caressing the Zionist dream of "keeping everything" after the Six Day War. - Quotation from Moshe Dayan “We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.” — Aug. 10 1967
Paving the way for all annexations in the aftermath of the Six Day War. - Quotation from Moshe Dayan “Who needs a Jewish Vatican” — June 7 1967
Responding to the Chief Rabbi of the army Shlomo Goren who had called to blow up the Dome of the Rock. - Quotation from Moshe Dayan “We should transform the Bedouins into an urban proletariat” — 1963
Then Minister of Agriculture, imagining the fate of the Bedouins in Haaretz. - Quotation from Moshe Dayan “Serious help means killing Egyptians” — June 1956
Moshe Dayan, addressing Ben Gurion before the Suez expedition. - Quotation from Moshe Dayan “To be willing and armed, strong and unyielding” — Apr. 29 1956
Moshe Dayan, then Chief of Staff, speaks at the funeral of the soldier King Rotberg. Without denying the injustice perceived by the Palestinians, he updates Jabotinsky's speech on the "Iron Wall" to be maintained indefinitely to preserve Zionist domination. - Quotation from Moshe Dayan “The territory from the Litani southward will be totally annexed to Israel” — May 16 1954
Israeli Chief of Staff, for whom butchering Lebanon is child's play. - Quotation from Moshe Dayan “It lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the object of erecting the Israeli Empire” — Feb. 12 1952
Israel's Minister of Defense and Foreign Affairs on February 12, 1952 on Radio Israel. - [wrong] Words attributed to Moshe Dayan “The ultimate object of erecting the Israeli Empire” — Feb. 12 1952
Apocryphal or wrong quotation or doubtful.