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"Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population."
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"Kill the body and the head will die."

"The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation."

"Aggression, the writer's main source of energy."

"Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease."

"Back off, asshole. I haven't had a woman today, so I'm in no mood for this kind of bullshit."

"Bullies are packed animals, when one fuels the fire others follow."

"I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it."

"Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person."

"Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression."

"It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!"
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"Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine."

"I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant."

"An there is always the question: is it really proven that retaliatory actions solve the security problem?."

"We are very anxious to bring the Jews of Morocco over and we are doing all we can to achieve this. But we cannot count on the Jews of Morocco alone to build the country, because they have not been educated for this."

"So we need people who will remain steadfast in any hardship and who have a high degree of resistance."

"Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly."

"As for the long-term future: I am prepared to see in this a vision, not a mystical way but in a realistic way, of a population exchange on a much more important scale and including larger territories."

"I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times."

"I imagine that the intention is to get rid of them. The interests of security demand that we get rid of them."
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