[IMRA: This remark was made before PM Olmert postponed the operation in
northern Gaza]

"We cannot just wait until more of our people are killed so we can get
permission to defend ourselves," IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz said
during an IAF ceremony in the South. "We need to kill those who rise to kill
us."
[quoted in "Olmert delays northern Gaza incursion"
Yaakov Katz, THE JERUSALEM POST Jun. 29, 2006
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150885882351&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
]