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Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

I have the strength to endure it all.

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

It is not in our hands to prevent the murder of workers… and families… but it is in our hands to fix...

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Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we d...

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I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

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Moshe Dayan

Defense Minister of Israel

Born: 1915-05-20

Died: 1981-10-16

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. In the 1930s, Dayan joined the Haganah, the pre-state Jewish defense force of Mandatory Palestine. He served in the Special Night Squads under Orde Charles Wingate during the Arab revolt in Palestine and later lost an eye in a raid on Vichy forces in Lebanon during World War II.More