“Well done, now give it back to them.”
Spoken to Louis Nir in June 1967, after his unit captured Hebron in the Six-Day War), as quoted in "Is the end in sight?" by Henry Porter in The Observer (28 October 2001) http://observer.guardian.co.uk/nireland/story/0,11008,582158,00.html
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