Let us not cast the blame on the murderers today. Why should we declare their burning hatred for us? For eight years they have been sitting in the refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we have been transforming the lands and the villages, where they and their fathers dwelt, into our estate.

Moshe Dayan (Israeli Minister of Defense) in the eulogy for Ro’i Rothberg, 1956 quoted in “Gaza: A History” by Jean-Pierre Filiu, 2014