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1915–1981 Israel
Moshe Dayan (20 May 1915 – 16 October 1981) was an Israeli military leader and politician. As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (1953–1958) during the 1956 Suez Crisis, but mainly as Defense Minister during the Six-Day War in 1967, he became a worldwide fighting symbol of the new state of Israel.
Israel Military leaders Politicians Also known as: Dayan, Moshe
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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
We are a small nation, but strong; peace-loving, yet ready to fight for our lives and our country.
In two cases I did not fulfill my role as defense minister, in that I did not stop things that I was sure should have been stopped.
A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal.
The Iron Wall (1999)
There is no more Palestine. Finished . . .
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.
The Iron Wall (1999)
[Israel] must see the sword as the main, if not the only, instrument with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension. Toward this end it may, no — it must — invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation-and-revenge...
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