I Have Traveled A Long Road From

During The Last 100 Years Our People Have Been In A Process Of Building Up The Country And The Nation, Of Expansion, Of Getting Additional Jews And Additional Settlements In Order To Expand The Borders Here. Let No Jew Say That The Process Has Ended. Let No Jew Say That We Are Near The End Of The Road.

Take The American Declaration Of Independence. It Contains No Mention Of Territorial Limits. We Are Not Obliged To Fix The Limits Of The State.

There Is Not One Single Place Built In This Country That Did Not Have A Former Arab Population.

We Came Here To A Country That Was Populated By Arabs And We Are Building Here A Hebrew, A Jewish State; Instead Of The Arab Villages, Jewish Villages Were Established. You Even Do Not Know The Names Of Those Villages, And I Do Not Blame You Because These Villages No Longer Exist. There Is Not A Single Jewish Settlement That Was Not Established In The Place Of A Former Arab Village.

In Two Cases I Did Not Fulfill My Role As Defense Minister, In That I Did Not Stop Things That I Was Sure Should Have Been Stopped.