BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,215, November 28, 2023
“We cannot always prevent the murder of workers in an orchard or sleeping families, but we can set a high price for our blood. A price too high for the Arab settlement, the Arab army and the Arab government to pay. … [Retaliation operations] are not for vengeance. It is an act of punishment and warning, that if that state does not control its population and does not prevent them attacking us – the Israeli forces will cause havoc in its land.“
IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan,
Lecture to IDF officers: “Retaliation Operations as a Means of Ensuring Peace”, July 1955
(Published in IDF monthly journal Skira Hodsheet, August 1955).
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