In his own words (Jeffrey Goldberg)

"For me, the wonder was modern Israel, the greatest wonders being Jews with
guns, and not just .22s, but Uzis and M-16s and bigger guns than these,
grenade-spitting guns, great barking machine guns. On a bus tour across the
Galilee, we drove in the wake of a tank transport, a mammoth truck carrying a
deadly Jewish tank. A Jewish tank! And Jewish armored personnel carriers! It
was a miracle. Enough of thinking and suffering! Let's do some shooting!"
–Jeffrey Goldberg, in his book Prisoners (2006)

"As I waited in the Knesset cafeteria to see Netanyahu, I opened a book he edited of his late brother’s letters. Yoni Netanyahu, a commando leader, was killed in 1976 during the Israeli raid on Entebbe, and his family organized his letters in a book they titled Self-Portrait of a Hero. In one letter, Yoni wrote to his teenage brother, then living in America, who had apparently been in a fight after someone directed an anti-Semitic remark at him. 'I see … that you had to release the surplus energy you stored up during the summer,' Yoni wrote. 'There’s nothing wrong with that. But it’s too bad you sprained a finger in the process. In my opinion, there’s nothing wrong with a good fist fight; on the contrary, if you’re young and you’re not seriously hurt, it won’t do you real harm. Remember what I told you? He who delivers the first blow, wins.'"
 –Goldberg, reporting on his interview with Netanyahu, March 31, titled, "Netanyahu to Obama: Stop Iran–Or I Will"