Quotes

Six Day War
"I was damned glad to see those tanks, because I remember in 1948 when we didn't have them. Things are going to be different now." - An Israeli captain, celebrating the movement of tanks down Jaffa Road during the Six Day War

Unifcation
"How can you explain things like that? YEsterday I was fighting the eney and today I'm serving him tea in my home." - An Israeli soldier, home on leave from fighting in the Suez Canal, on welcoming a young Arab after the unification of Jerusalem

"They came up and rang the bell and said very politely: 'This is our house. Why don't you give it back to use?' 'We bought it from the Government,' I said. It was uncanny. They showed no sign of impatience or anxiety, no sense of time elapsed." - An Israeli housewife

Mayor Teddy Kollek
"I'm convinced the great majority of the 200,000 Arabs in Israel are aware that they are economically and culturally further ahead than any other Arabs in the Middle East - but many would give up everything they have to live under Arab rule."