Let us not cast the blame on the murderers today. Why should we declare their burning hatred for us? For eight years they have been sitting in the refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we have been transforming the lands and the villages, where they and their fathers dwelt, into our estate.
It is not among the Arabs in Gaza, but in our own midst that we must seek Roi’s blood. How did we shut our eyes and refuse to look squarely at our fate, and see, in all its brutality, the destiny of our generation? Have we forgotten that this group of young people dwelling at Nahal Oz is bearing the heavy gates of Gaza on its shoulders?
Moshe Dayan’s Eulogy for Roi Rutenberg – April 19, 1956
You can spin lies as much as you want, twist the facts and turn the effect into the cause and vice versa, but alas, it’s game over at this point… You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time…