“During the last 100 years our people have been in a process of building up the country and the nation, of expansion, of getting additional Jews and additional settlements in order to expand the borders here. Let no Jew say that the process has ended. Let no Jew say that we are near the end of the road.”

—  Moshe Dayan

Ma'ariv, 7 July 1968.
The Iron Wall (1999)

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