Moshe Dayan, a former Israeli military leader and politician

• Let us not today cast blame on the murderers. Who are we to argue against their potent hatred for us? For eight years they have been sitting in the refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we have been turning the land and villages in which they and their forefathers lived into our own inheritance... We are the generation of settlement, and without steel helmets and the maw of the cannon we will not be able to plant a tree or build a home. Our children will not live if we do not dig shelters, and without barbed wire fences and machine guns we will not be able to pave roads or drill for water. Millions of Jews, annihilated because they had no country, gaze at us from the dust of Jewish history and command us to settle and raise up a land for our people.
  • Rise and Kill First (2018) by Ronen Bergman, p. 49. Citing Moshe Dayan (09 April, 1956) by Mordechai Bar-On, p. 128-129

• There is no more Palestine. Finished . . .
  • As quoted in TIME Magazine (30 July 1973)