I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.
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We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today.
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If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister one week.
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Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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