For some reason, Uri forgets to quote another paragraph of that very same Moshe Dayan speech:
"Let us not cast accusations at the murderers today. Why should we blame them for their burning hatred for us? For eight years they have been dwelling in Gaza’s refugee camps, as before their eyes we have transformed the land and the villages in which they and their forefathers had dwelled into our own property."
Dayan recognized that the Arabs hated the Jews because the Jews were thieves, not because they were Jewish. And he fully justified that hate, and understood that a justified hate could only be contained through reckless dehumanizing force. 70 years on, that hate is still operative, but the Jews prefer to sacrifice 1,200 of their own people from time to time rather than return the property they stole.
In 1956, Nahal Oz security officer Roi Rothberg was ambushed and murdered by infiltrators from Gaza. His funeral was attended by Moshe Dayan. The general's words at the funeral read especially chilling after October 7:
"Beyond the furrow of the border, a sea of hatred and desire for revenge is swelling, awaiting the day when serenity will dull our path, for the day when we will heed the ambassadors of malevolent hypocrisy who call upon us to lay down our arms... Let us not be deterred from seeing the loathing that is inflaming and filling the lives of the hundreds of thousands of Arabs who live around us. Let us not avert our eyes lest our arms weaken. This is the fate of our generation. This is our life's choice—to be prepared and armed, strong and determined, lest the sword be stricken from our fist and our lives cut down. The young Roi who left Tel Aviv to build his home at the gates of Gaza to be a wall for us was blinded by the light in his heart and he did not see the flash of the sword. The yearning for peace deafened his ears and he did not hear the voice of murder waiting in ambush."