Yet another bus is attacked [..]. and Arik tells us that we have 'destroyed the terror'. Tell me, you civilians, can't you do anything about it? One demosntration of 400,000 and that's it? Is that all you are going to do? Are you waiting for us to return in our coffins?
— Fateful Triangle : The United States Israel & the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky
Declaration of an IDF soldier returning on leave to his kibbutz in the context of the 1982 invation to Lebanon.