Copyright reserved by Zazzrix Zebriel December 2007
(Written on 01-12-2007)
As tribute to the most dangerous Defense Minister Israel ever had that brought fear amongst Arab hostilities in the tumultuous period of Israel, this biography is written to honor a man worthy of the fighting mentality in the government administration of Israel.
Moshe Dayan was born in the kibbutz in Degania Alef near the Sea of Galilee whose parents Shmuel and Devorah are Jewish immigrants from Ukraine enroute to Israel. The birth of Moshe Dayan was at about 1922, the time stated in the biography seems to be mixed up as the time he joined the Jewish Reactionary Force, Haganah in 1936 at an early age of 14 (not 21years old) where he was deeply influenced by Captain Charles Orde Wingate who was described as a 'tactical genius' in dessert warfare while in the rank of sargent.
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Right picture of Capt. Orde Charles Wingate who is respected by Israel and who was promoted to Major General at the time of his death despite political smearing of his character by lesbians.
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The training of Capt. Orde Charles Wingate left a deep imprint upon the character and was pursued aggressively by Dayan that by 1938 he rose to the rank of commander of a pluggut sadeh (field unit).
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Dayan was arrested by the British when Haganah was outlawed in 1939 but was subsequently set free in 1941 as part of Haganah's renewed cooperation to aid the British against the German axis in World War II that roped in french nationals that has adapted to the Arabic dessert conditions after the invasion of France.
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It was on June the 7th 1941 in World War II while serving the Australian 7th Division that Dayan was injured and lost his left eye to sniper fire in Syria that led to the infamous eye patch trademark. At the recommendation of an Australian officer, Dayan was inaugurated with the Distinguished Service Order, one of the British Empire's highest military honours for his reconnaissance services to the army.
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Right picture of Moshe Dayan with the army.
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During the tumultuous period of riots, massacres and upheaval of temporal peaceful solutions after World War II, Dayan joined the Underground Force, the Haganah to stabilize law and order in the midst of uncertainties.
The War of Independence began from the next day after the approval of the 1947 Partition Plan by the UN general assembly on 29th November and continued on until May 1948. The War of Independence was immediately commenced after the withdrawal of British army from Israel by the Arabs who was intend on invading and annihilating the Jews but was repulsed by the Israel Reactionary Force which mostly consisted of Haganah that was reorganised to Israeli Defense Force in 1948.
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During the 1948 War, Dayan was the commander of a few military units at the defense in Jordan Valley under Colonel Yigal Yardin to command the defense of the settlements in Jordan Valley when Israel territory was divided into 3 parts, the northern, central and southern regions by the 1947 Partition Plan that was convened by
the UN general assembly on November the 29th of 1947.
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It was at the Jordanian central front, that he formed a liason with Israel's founding fathers, PM David Ben Gurion because of his straight forward personality, the bond between these two great men began to form. Later he was then transferred to the Jordanian west central front with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel where he led a battalion to capture Ramla and Lydda after an intense battle.
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Left picture of Colonel Yigal Yadin who was the commander of the Jordanian Valley in the central front under whom Dayan served during the 1948 War.
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After the 1948 War, Dayan became the governor of Jerusalem for a brief period as his original designation and military character would mostly involve IDF army issues and not civilian matters where Dayan rose rapidly through the ranks as a capable military strategist in times of the frequent incursions by Arab militia gangs to carry out atrocities of ethnic cleansing.
(Added on 02-12-2007)
In 1949 Dayan commanded the final battles around Jerusalem before the Rhodes Armistice Conference in February 1949 where he represented Israel in the conference that led to the legitimacy of the State of Israel that was recognized by the international community and 4 other Arab states - Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon after a few months after the Rhodes Armistice was signed.
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Despite the traumatic failure of the IDF operations Tel Motila against the Syrians in 1951, Dayan shook up the army and turned the IDF into an aggressive army where General Ariel
Sharon wrote '(Dayan) he was the chief of staff who was the greatest revolutionary the IDF ever had. His imagination absorbed and encouraged every daring operational plan. He breathed the spirit of battle into the fighting veins of the army. He set the fighting norms and the high standards.' that was to set the foundations of a Nation always at War in the Israeli Defense Force.
(Written on 01-12-2007)
As tribute to the most dangerous Defense Minister Israel ever had that brought fear amongst Arab hostilities in the tumultuous period of Israel, this biography is written to honor a man worthy of the fighting mentality in the government administration of Israel.
Moshe Dayan was born in the kibbutz in Degania Alef near the Sea of Galilee whose parents Shmuel and Devorah are Jewish immigrants from Ukraine enroute to Israel. The birth of Moshe Dayan was at about 1922, the time stated in the biography seems to be mixed up as the time he joined the Jewish Reactionary Force, Haganah in 1936 at an early age of 14 (not 21years old) where he was deeply influenced by Captain Charles Orde Wingate who was described as a 'tactical genius' in dessert warfare while in the rank of sargent.
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Right picture of Capt. Orde Charles Wingate who is respected by Israel and who was promoted to Major General at the time of his death despite political smearing of his character by lesbians.
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The training of Capt. Orde Charles Wingate left a deep imprint upon the character and was pursued aggressively by Dayan that by 1938 he rose to the rank of commander of a pluggut sadeh (field unit).
-
Dayan was arrested by the British when Haganah was outlawed in 1939 but was subsequently set free in 1941 as part of Haganah's renewed cooperation to aid the British against the German axis in World War II that roped in french nationals that has adapted to the Arabic dessert conditions after the invasion of France.
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It was on June the 7th 1941 in World War II while serving the Australian 7th Division that Dayan was injured and lost his left eye to sniper fire in Syria that led to the infamous eye patch trademark. At the recommendation of an Australian officer, Dayan was inaugurated with the Distinguished Service Order, one of the British Empire's highest military honours for his reconnaissance services to the army.
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Right picture of Moshe Dayan with the army.
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During the tumultuous period of riots, massacres and upheaval of temporal peaceful solutions after World War II, Dayan joined the Underground Force, the Haganah to stabilize law and order in the midst of uncertainties.
The War of Independence began from the next day after the approval of the 1947 Partition Plan by the UN general assembly on 29th November and continued on until May 1948. The War of Independence was immediately commenced after the withdrawal of British army from Israel by the Arabs who was intend on invading and annihilating the Jews but was repulsed by the Israel Reactionary Force which mostly consisted of Haganah that was reorganised to Israeli Defense Force in 1948.
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During the 1948 War, Dayan was the commander of a few military units at the defense in Jordan Valley under Colonel Yigal Yardin to command the defense of the settlements in Jordan Valley when Israel territory was divided into 3 parts, the northern, central and southern regions by the 1947 Partition Plan that was convened by
the UN general assembly on November the 29th of 1947.-
It was at the Jordanian central front, that he formed a liason with Israel's founding fathers, PM David Ben Gurion because of his straight forward personality, the bond between these two great men began to form. Later he was then transferred to the Jordanian west central front with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel where he led a battalion to capture Ramla and Lydda after an intense battle.
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Left picture of Colonel Yigal Yadin who was the commander of the Jordanian Valley in the central front under whom Dayan served during the 1948 War.
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After the 1948 War, Dayan became the governor of Jerusalem for a brief period as his original designation and military character would mostly involve IDF army issues and not civilian matters where Dayan rose rapidly through the ranks as a capable military strategist in times of the frequent incursions by Arab militia gangs to carry out atrocities of ethnic cleansing.
(Added on 02-12-2007)
In 1949 Dayan commanded the final battles around Jerusalem before the Rhodes Armistice Conference in February 1949 where he represented Israel in the conference that led to the legitimacy of the State of Israel that was recognized by the international community and 4 other Arab states - Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon after a few months after the Rhodes Armistice was signed.
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Despite the traumatic failure of the IDF operations Tel Motila against the Syrians in 1951, Dayan shook up the army and turned the IDF into an aggressive army where General Ariel
Sharon wrote '(Dayan) he was the chief of staff who was the greatest revolutionary the IDF ever had. His imagination absorbed and encouraged every daring operational plan. He breathed the spirit of battle into the fighting veins of the army. He set the fighting norms and the high standards.' that was to set the foundations of a Nation always at War in the Israeli Defense Force.-
Right picture of Dayan as Chief of Operations encouraging Unit 101 in a undated file picture.
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In 1949, Dayan was promoted to Commander Southern Command where he served in this capacity until 1952. After his tenure as Commander of Southern Command, he was subsequently transferred to be Commander of Northern Command in the same year which he held briefly until a suitable candidate can be found.
(Added 3 + 1 paragraph 04-12-2007.)
In the mid-1950's, when asked by the military officers at a IDF meeting what should be done to open a passage way at the Gulf of Eliat, Dayan commented loudly, "What must be done is that, `A ship flying an Israeli flag should be sent to the Egyptian harbour, and if the Egyptians bomb it, we should bomb the Egyptian base from the air, or conquer Ras al-Nab, or open our south of Gaza Strip to the coast." with a graphic explosion of the bombing of the Egyptian base and there was a thunderous uproar among the IDF military and an officer asked, "Do you realise that this would mean war with Egypt?". "Of course!", he retorted triumphantly and confidently. (Please note that the original text concerning "Egyptian harbour" was actually proclaimed much earlier to a different group of IDF officers which was not recorded by the press, neither is it the author's idea.)
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In 1955 because of American conditions regarding territorial expansion and military retaliation on terrorist attacks, Moshe Dayan did not pursue American guarantees of Israel's security that does not have any warranty against terrorist attacks. In an informal talk with ambassadors to Washington, London and Paris, Dayan describes military retaliation to terrorist incursions as a 'life drug' to the Israel Army.
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It was a few months after this informal meeting with the ambassadors, while rising from his barracks that he commented 'Nothing excites me more than war' which became his motto since the days training under Captain Orde Charles Wingate of 1936 -1939.
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From 1955 to 1958, Dayan served as the 4th Chief of Staff of Israel IDF armed forces during which time he embarked on the training and supervision to establish the
IDF in warfare techniques and skills. Before the 1956 Suez Canal Crisis, he was summoned to PM Ben Gurion's office to put into place strategic military manouvers where Israel could breach the whole Suez Canal.Right picture of Chief of Operations Moshe Dayan with General Ariel Sharon at an introduction.
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In the 1956 Suez Canal Crisis, even though he was the Chief of Staff, he personally took command of the Israeli IDF forces fighting in the Sinai area at pressing times when command was engaged at a different location.
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At a funeral of a young Israelite killed in an Egyptian ambush on April 1956, Dayan delivered his famous eulogy of Roi Rutenburg.
(Added 04-12-2007)
'... Let us not today fling accusation at the murderers. What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived.
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We should demand his blood not from the [Palestinian] Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves... Let us make our reckoning today. We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.... Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that accompanies and consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of [Palestinian] Arabs who sit all around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.'
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Todays update 05-12-2007 will be on PM Rabin's sacrifice to Israel in the year 1974. Please click on the link
Todays update 05-12-2007 will be on PM Rabin's sacrifice to Israel in the year 1974. Please click on the link
(Added on 06-12-2007)
After retiring from the army in 1958, Dayan entered politics at the request of PM Ben Gurion and was elected to the Knesset in 1959 as a Labor member. After a short period, he was appointed to the Minister of Agriculture which was conversant to his upbringing.
Left picture of PM Ben Gurion with Defense Minister Moshe Dayan in the National Day parade.
Second from right is PM Ben Gurion while second from left is Levi Eshkol, left most is Moshe Dayan.
Shortly after PM Ben Gurion retired from the ministers office in June 1963, Dayan soon withdrew from the government in 1964, only to return to politics at the insistence of Ben Gurion in the newly formed political party Rafi by ex-prime minister Ben Gurion in 1965. However PM Levi Eshkol strongly disliked Dayan for his robust character that does not include modesty where tensions between the two men will appear.
(Added 06-12-2007)
However later in on the eve of the 1967 Six Day War, PM Levi Eshkol in an effort to raise public patriotism and to widen his government 's support, appointed Dayan as Israeli Minister of Defense shortly before the 1967 War against Egypt, Syria and Jordan that was not premeditated by Dayan as he has not really accustomized himself to military politics after a long layoff from military since 1959. Yet because of his seniority and rank within the government, he was proclaimed the victor of the 1967 War for his involvement in the conflict.
However later in on the eve of the 1967 Six Day War, PM Levi Eshkol in an effort to raise public patriotism and to widen his government 's support, appointed Dayan as Israeli Minister of Defense shortly before the 1967 War against Egypt, Syria and Jordan that was not premeditated by Dayan as he has not really accustomized himself to military politics after a long layoff from military since 1959. Yet because of his seniority and rank within the government, he was proclaimed the victor of the 1967 War for his involvement in the conflict.
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June 1967 Six Day War began against the Arab states of Egypt, Jordan and Syria to directly expand the borders of Israel as the result of land constrains by the increasing Jewish population that would require more habitable and agriculture land.
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The political disdain of Defense Minister Moshe Dayan was evidently surfaced in the 1967 War when he saw the religious fervour of a large group of rabbis rushing on the Temple Mount shortly after Jerusalem was captured in 1967 that he exclaimed, 'What is this!!!' and handed the keys to the Waqf as evidence of Dayan's contradictory thoughts against religious romanticism and reality of war where he had deep disapproval of religious extremism.
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It must be noted that Moshe Dayan though not a religious man, in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Dayan sanctioned the tactical manouvers of General Ariel's plan to wrest the whole of Jerusalem back to Israel.
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It was only after the 1973 Yom Kippur War that he found a biblical artifact in an undestroyed excavation area that delved his curiousity deeper into religion and became an amateur achaelogist, digging for artifacts that seeks to encourage his research into religion where he can be constantly seen totting around with a bible in hand.
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(It must be humourously noted that many a times that Dayan's fervour in obtaining artifacts would sometimes lead to his using of an IDF helicopter to transport the artifacts illegally out of the excavation site though to historians and archaeologist is an offence to a man welding the bible! Where he found out that Dayan in Hebrew translated as Moses the Judge!).
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Wars that are fought and won is by the fighting mentality of a Nation Always at War.......
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Copyright reserved by Zazzrix Zebriel December 2007
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