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We Israelis have two interests on the West Bank: first, the right to settle everywhere and to buy land. We do not have to expel the Arabs, but if they want to sell a piece of land and a Jew wants to buy, why shouldn't he have the right to do so. [Because the status of the occupied territories is still unsettled, the Israeli government has forbidden Jews to buy land on the West Bank.] The other interest is security. We have no ambi tion to be the rulers of the Moslem Arabs, but it is a different thing to have the right of Jews to live in this area, near them, with them and by them. For a while what I see on the West Bank is not a dividing line between two states but a kind of arrangement of two different peoples living in one area. The Arabs are citizens of Jordan, and the Israelis are a part of Israel.
SOVIET JEWS: As far as I know, we did not see any positive results from the Brezhnev meeting in Washington for Jewish emigration from Russia. Perhaps something will come, but for the time being I do not see any improvements. The Jews in America will have to be the party to take care of it. It's not an Israeli question.
THE UNITED NATIONS: Nobody has faith in the United Nations. First of all, because it has no power and its composition is absolutely against us. It can never have any positive decisions for us, so how can we rely on it? It is powerless and it's against us. All those Communist countries and Arab countries and African countries. It is the worst place for us to go and put our case.
THE SUPERPOWERS: I think the most important thing is the arms we got from the Americans. Because we are strong, then the problem for the Russians is how to deal with us without getting much more deeply involved militarily. Had we not been militarily strong, we would not have been able to oppose all kinds of pressure, and the Egyptians would have tried exerting military pressure on us. We can even allow ourselves to disagree with our friends.
THE ENERGY CRISIS: We will have to undergo an unpleasant period now because the Arabs have oil. I think America is strong and wise enough not to be dictated to just because of oil from the Arab countries.
ON DAYAN'S OWN FUTURE: I'm more clear about what to do with the terrorists than what to do with myself. It's simpler to know what to do with [Palestinian Leader Yasser] Arafat than what to do with Moshe Dayan.