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Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.
I have the strength to endure it all.
There is no more Palestine. Finished.
There is no more Palestine. Finished...
Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?
I know of nothing more exciting than war.
The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.
Most important, don't do anything you don't want.
Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.
To aim and hit, you need one eye only, and one good finger.
After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life.
If we lose this war, I'll just start another in my wife's name.
The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.
The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.
I don't think we should be a model family living in a model home.
I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.
It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.
I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer.
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
If you can't get up for an old woman on the bus, you can't be an officer in the IDF.
I feel I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest.
Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.
There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.
I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts.
It isn't a secret that my heart is damaged. All the treatments and medications haven't been effective.
I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.
We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today.
We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves... Let us make our reckoning today.
If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.
Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.
The Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people.
We are a nation that loves the peace. We will never stop growing and developing but we know how to protect ourselves using force.
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.
We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.
Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population.
Soldiers of Israel, we have no aims of conquest. Our purpose is to bring to naught the attempts of the Arab armies to conquer our land.
Take the American declaration of Independence. It contains no mention of territorial limits. We are not obliged to fix the limits of the State.
It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce the policy of strength toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.
We have no solution... You [Palestinians] shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave, and we will see where this process leads.
It was in our power to cause the Arab governments to renounce 'the policy of strength' toward Israel by turning it into a demonstration of weakness.
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.
It was in our power to set high price for our blood, a price too high for the Arab community, the Arab army, or the Arab governments to think it worth paying.
It lies upon the people's shoulders to prepare for the war, but it lies upon the Israeli army to carry out the fight with the ultimate object of erecting the Israeli Empire.
Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.
We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds.
Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist.
Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.
It is not in our hands to prevent the murder of workers… and families… but it is in our hands to fix a high price for our blood, so high that the Arab community and the Arab military forces will not be willing to pay it.
What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived.
Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are the generation of colonizers and without the steel helmet and the gun barrel we cannot plant a tree and build a house.