What did Moshe Dayan say about fighting Arabs?
Upvote:1
Quoting this site that supposedly quotes the book:
סיפורו של משה דיין משרד הביטחון – ההוצאה לאור, 1997 [ספר נידח שגם אזל כי שארית עותקיו נשלחה לגריסה עם סגירת ההוצאה לאור, על פי החלטת שר הביטחון אהוד ברק]
Translation:
"The story of Moshe Dayan", Ministry of Defense - Publishing, 1997. (Ehud Ben-Ezer: "Courage: The Story of Moshe Dayan") [A rare book that also ran out, the rest of its copies sent to shred when the publishing house closed, according to Defense Minister Ehud Barak's decision]
(the grammatical quirks and language are in the original)
Moshe Dayan allegedly said:
"ככה זה כשנלחמים עם ערבים," משוכנע משה מאז הקרב על הדגניות: "אם נותנים דפיקה אחת בפח – הם כולם בורחים, כמו ציפורים."
Translation:
"That's the way it is when fighting with Arabs," Moshe is convinced since the battle for the Deganiot, "If you put one knock on the tin bin - they all run away, like birds."
Note that this quote is from 1948 when Dayan was still a battalion commander, and is not necessarily racist but reflects the kind of fighting that took place against non organised mobs or poorly trained armies.
I couldn't find this quote anywhere else using different wording. The exact quote inquired in the question is even more elusive.
More post
- 📝 Why is literacy difficult?
- 📝 In ancient Rome, did a lot of people feel guilty about owning slaves?
- 📝 Why are gliders not used anymore in military operation?
- 📝 How did Urdun come to be called Jordan?
- 📝 Austria and Iron Curtain during Cold War
- 📝 Why did the movement that initiated the Stockholm appeal never condemned Soviet atomic experiments?
- 📝 Madness in the early modern era (pre-enlightenment, Habsburg monarchy)
- 📝 What kind of labor was used to build the Egyptian pyramids?
- 📝 Do we know why the Scythians and Sarmatians were overpowered by the Goths, Huns, and Slavs so quickly?
- 📝 What would be accurate illustrations of vikings and viking culture?
- 📝 What was the official reason for not invading France until the middle of 1944?
- 📝 What were the demographics of the ancient Greek colonies of Cyprus (any population estimates from 500BCE to 1BCE will do)?
- 📝 WWI : odds to cross the man's land alive
- 📝 Why was Roman painting so inferior to the sculpture and architecture of the same period?
- 📝 How did native Hawaiians achieve such a high literacy rate prior to the 1850s?
- 📝 Can anyone explain why the Scottish flag on this map from 1504 has a red cross on a white background?
- 📝 Who is the historical figure in McCarthy's speech, "When a great democracy is destroyed..."?
- 📝 How many of Japan's 29 lost Pearl Harbor aircraft have been accounted for?
- 📝 Why was Basel, Switzerland chosen for the First Zionist Congress?
- 📝 Is it true that there was no such thing as a Hispanic-owned bank in the continental USA until 1969?
- 📝 Were there any important spies in modern history who had to conceal their true nationality (or culture)?
- 📝 Why did Frederick the Great do so much worse against the Russians than against his other enemies in the Seven Years' War?
- 📝 Lenin Jacket Picture: What's the story?
- 📝 Which Commiphora species produces the Biblical Myrrh?
- 📝 How were concussions treated in late 19th-century America?
- 📝 Did the Incas think Spanish helmets were cooking pots?
- 📝 The speed of sea travel in the beginning of 19th century
- 📝 Who used to present the Indian Order of Merit?
- 📝 Where does Lincoln say the South wants us to believe as they believe?
- 📝 Is there any truth to the story of a British general breaking down in tears upon seeing the battlefield conditions at Passchendaele?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 What did Moshe Dayan say about fighting Arabs?
- 📝 What did the top minds of the late 17th century have to say about Salem witch trials?
- 📝 What did Kong Rong say about Cao Cao that got Kong Rong killed?
- 📝 What did Thomas Jefferson say about "what I say now is only valid now; I can change my thoughts?"
- 📝 What did Hitler say in Mein Kampf about the possibility of other nations allying against Germany in response to her aggression?
- 📝 What did Germany do in World War II about the different rail gauge in the Soviet Union?
- 📝 What did people in 13th century England know about Greek mythology?
- 📝 Did Rothschild say this famous quote? If yes, what did he mean by it?
- 📝 What did Native Americans know, or speculate, about the Old world?
- 📝 Did Joseph Goebbels really say this about German opposition in 1933?
- 📝 What did Tacitus write about Nero and the Great Fire of Rome 64AD?
- 📝 What did Zhang Zuolin say after his train blew up?
- 📝 What did English people really say when knighting someone?
- 📝 What did Hitler mean with the following statement about Franco?
- 📝 What did other European powers say when Portugal and Spain signed the Treaty of Tordesillas?
- 📝 What did the average German citizen know about the war?
- 📝 To what extent did the CPC avoid fighting with the Japanese?
- 📝 What did the Soviets know about the Hunger Plan during WWII?
- 📝 Did Jefferson really say this quote about patriotism?
- 📝 Did ancient Chinese and/or Japanese scholars speculate about what lay across the Pacific?
- 📝 What effect did awareness of devastating bombing at home have on the fighting spirit of German troops on the Eastern front?
- 📝 Any information about what William Marshall (Guillaume le Marechal) did in the Holy Land?
- 📝 What did General McAuliffe actually say at Bastogne?
- 📝 What did the Jews during the First Jewish-Roman War know about other anti-Roman revolts?
- 📝 What did the Japanese military do to maintain their fighting edge during the Edo era/Bakufu (1603-1868)?
- 📝 At what point did mapmaking begin to accurately reflect what we now know about the earth?
- 📝 What do written sources say about disability in early civilisations?
- 📝 What did the Japanese believe about the USA capability of making/using additional atomic bombs?
- 📝 Did Einstein really say this quote about time?
- 📝 What exactly do eyewitness testimonies say about Hitler's behavior during the Munich Putsch?