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We have failed in our duty to fight terrorism and protect our citizens because we have no national agenda to tackle the core issues which will help us to shape the future of our Jewish Democratic State of Israel, explained Major General (retired) Uzi Dayan in his address to Likud Anglos in Jerusalem on Thursday November 13, 2008.

The single most important aspect of any national agenda is national security. If we don't fight terrorism effectively, we leave the key to any progress in the hands of the terrorists who can choose to derail it whenever they want. Dayan said that the Oslo Process, which he once supported, failed because Israel did not have a partner, and the Palestinians did not abandon terrorism. Today, we are in a war with Hamas and Hizbollah which is not about territories, nor land, borders or refugees. It is a war against the Jewish entity in the Middle East; the very existence of the Jewish People in this region. This war did not start in 1967 and it will not end even if we concede every inch of our land, Dayan said.

War is not like sport, you have to win, not to participate., Dayan said. We need to completely dismantle the Hamas Regime in Gaza. If we fail to do so, Hamas will further strengthen its ties with Hizbullah and ketusha rockets will not only fall on S'derot and Ashkelon, they will start to fall on Ashdod and Beersheva too. We must also prevent Iran building a nuclear capability, which would see Hamas and Hizbollah operating under its wing, with Israel as a soft target. We should be looking to form an alliance in the middle east of enemies of Islamic Fundamentalism.

 Dayan also criticized Israel's troubled educational system which he said doesn't deliver. Our main threat, he claimed, comes from within Israeli society. The essence of our system has always been, and must remain, to maintain a Jewish Democratic State based on traditional values.