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"We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel."
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"Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap."

"Israel has an important principle: It is only Israel that is responsible for our security."

"The main points were: one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200."

"You still can't find Israel on a map of the Middle East in a Palestinian schoolbook."

"Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor."

"Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map."

"I think Israel will think one thousands times before invading Gaza."
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"The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight."

"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do."

"Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!"

"Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this."

"As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing."
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