An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?.

I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.

Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing.

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

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

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.

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