Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.

A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.

I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism.

Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.

The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth.

We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face.