100-Year-Old General: We Razed Arab Villages, So What?
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I happen to agree with Brigadier General Yitzchak Pundak- in a time of war, we were attacked, things needed to be done. The fledgling country was in great danger of being overrun. But still, in today's world, that is not a good headline...
Pundak adds an interesting, unrelated, comment about former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon:
Pundak, who was the governor of Gaza in the early 1970s, said that the credit that is usually given to Ariel Sharon for stopping Arab terror in Gaza in 1971 is mistaken. He said that Sharon was an unnecessarily cruel commander who once said at a meeting with officers that he would offer champagne to whoever killed an enemy fighter – and whoever brings him a wounded enemy "will drink soda."
He said: “I told him, 'You are not my commander, I am not coming to your meetings.'”
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