More from Lou: The plane had been on fire when it crashed, this guy was saying. The villagers had tried to save the crew but the flames had kept them back. The Haganah officer asked what had happened to the bodies. The jackals got them, said the mukhtar. He and the villagers had tried to keep the beasts back but they couldn’t. The parts of the fliers’ flesh that hadn’t been burned in the crash were devoured by wild animals. While the mukhtar was reciting this bullshit, my eyes were fixed on his left wrist. He was wearing the watch that had belonged to the pilot of the Beaufighter. I got Rabin aside, pointed out the wristwatch, and told him to burn down the village. Put a bullet in the mukhtar’s head and drive all the villagers out. I pointed across the plain. The Egyptian lines are only a few hundred meters away. Let the villagers take their belongings and get out. “I can’t do that,” said Rabin. “Why not?” I told him that was what U.S. Marines would do. We did it on Okinawa all the time. Marines wouldn’t even think twice. Concur. - The Lions Gate
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 04:28:40 +0000
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