Israeli politician Moshe Dayan with US
Presidents Richard Nixon and Jimmy
Carter
Addressing a youth group in the Golan
Heights in July 1968,
Moshe Dayan is reported to have told his audience:
Moshe Dayan is reported to have told his audience:
Our fathers had reached the frontiers which were recognized in the Partition Plan; our generation reached the frontiers of 1949; now the Six-Day War generation has managed to reach Suez, Jordan and the Golan Heights. This is not the end. After the present ceasefire lines, there will be new ones. They will extend beyond Jordan—perhaps to Lebanon, and perhaps to central Syria as well.
As
quoted by Ha'olam Hazeh (Israel's mass
circulation weekly)
Aruri, Naseer Hasan. Middle East
Crucible: Studies on the Arab-Israeli
War of October 1973. Medina University
Press International. 1975 . p.313.
Quoted
in The Times London,
June 25, 1969.
Hadawi,
Sami. Bitter Harvest: A Modern History
of Palestine.
Northampton, Massachusetts; Interlink
Books. 1991. p.225.
Other sources here.
Other sources here.
