A letter to the Israeli People
I know that for all of us, it must be extremely difficult to understand why suddenly my opinion towards the conflict against the Egyptian coalition, has drastically changed.
I fully understand how incomprehensible my last actions and fights must have been for many of you.
My actual posture and the prospect of future that I was fighting for, well known by everyone, the one that will mean leaving aside our prides, our undeniable past tensions (which I know will be extremely painful for all of us); my idea of peace and agreement with our long-term enemies, must seem entirely incoherent.
I cannot blame anyone for thinking in that way. I humbly imagine that if someone five years ago, or even three months, would have exposed me, the ideas I am defending now, I would think of him as crazy, lunatic or way too passionate.
What changed my mind, again, will probably seem to you as completely childish and naïve. But as everyone knows, I was suddenly sent to prison. As you also know, in the past, I, unfortunately, also had to spend three years incarcerated. But this time it was different, back then I was not married and did not had kids; and three months ago, when our secret intelligence guards came to take me away from them, I can not describe the pain that I felt, imagining the possibility of never seeing them again. And I made me finally realized, that, that is what war produces: people are took away from their families, people suffer, and people die.
And tried to make this never happen again, putting all my efforts and means, to try to find a solution to find peace, and to make sure that the conflict that has been lasting for more than twenty years, stop and comes to an end once for all ( I was convinced that if were not able to stop the conflict now, in 1967, it will last for very long time).
Even if this solution would have meant not being able to achieve our prewar territory aims and would have presented me as the responsible for loosing part of our territory in favor of Arab neighbors. I was willing to do it, because from now on, in all my decisions in life, I will try to put peace interests ahead of any type of interest. And once again, I can not blame anyone that do not see things this way.
But, brothers, I failed I have not been able to achieve my plan of peace, I have failed my, now, Arab brothers, who had put all their trust on me, I have failed you dear Israeli population who had shown me incredible support in the streets and every time over all my years, as Chief of general staff of this amazing country. I am sorry.
To finish, fortunately all is not lost, our government is now working on a great peace plan, that I truly hope will come to a positive end. It is why, dear Israelis, I will humbly ask you one last thing, please put all your trust in our prime minister, Levi Eshkol and our minister of defense, Moshe Dayan, as I already did myself. We will try to find all together the best solution to end this abominable situation.
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