Moshe Ya'Alon Quotes
We should be able to defend ourselves by ourselves.
Earlier in the Arab-Israeli conflict United Nations troops were stationed at the borders to prevent either side from attacking the other. The Arabs mounted a major attack and the United Nations troops ran and did not fight. Ever since then, Israel policy was never to depend on any other than Israel to defend the country and the people.
Moshe Yaalon, Israeli Army Chief of Staff, Israeli Minister of Defense, Interview with Lally Weymouth, The Washington Post, October 26, 2014
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It emasculated people to be protected in this way... [They should] be used to protecting themselves.
Commenting on the efforts of the government to regulate working conditions:
He was writing as the President of the Continental Congress. This quotation is often used by gun control opponents to illustrate that the Founding Fathers intended men to bear arms. The issue has been complicated by whether this right was intended as an individual right or a collective right. The Supreme Court has ruled the latter. There is a right of the State Militia to bear arms and not be disarmed by a Federal Government. There is no right for an individual to bear arms. This quotation could be interpreted both ways.
Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon is an Israeli politician and former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, who also served as Israel's Defense Minister under Benjamin Netanyahu from 2013 until his resignation on 20 May 2016. Ya'alon ran for Knesset in 2019 as the number three member of the Blue and White party, a joint list created by the merging of the Israel Resilience Party, led by former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz, and Yesh Atid, led by Yair Lapid. Ya'alon briefly served as the number 2 on the Yesh Atid-Telem list that was created following the 2020 Israeli legislative election. Ya'alon retired from politics in the lead up to the 2021 election after testing the waters splitting his Telem party from Yesh Atid.
