"In Israeli Prime Minister Moshe Sharatt’s personal diaries, there is an excerpt from May of 1955 in which he quotes Moshe Dayan as follows:
'[Israel] must see the sword as the main, if not the only, instrument with which to keep its morale high and to retain its moral tension. Toward this end it may, no — it must — invent dangers, and to do this it must adopt the method of provocation-and-revenge ... And above all — let us hope for a new war with the Arab countries, so that we may finally get rid of our troubles and acquire our space.'
Another of Sharett’s Diary entries for June 1955: ‘Ben Gurion himself said it would be worthwhile to pay an Arab a million pounds to start a war. What a slip of the tongue!’"
Moshe Sharett was "Israel's" first foreign minister (1948-54) and Prime Minister of "Israel" (1954-55).