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

Curious people who have become accustomed to think that one cannot sustain the moral of the army without giving it the freedom to shed blood from time to time.

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.

By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime.

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

So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance.

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