Every indexed document

did they let him send in a reconnaissance force

and whose military prowess I had come to

civilians die. But that did not make the principle

Tzahal’s doctrine included the principle of tohar haneshek

strength and a readiness to fight if we were to survive in the

“without the steel helmet and the barrel of the gun

they hated us and the state we were building. Rotberg

after an Israeli protest through the UN.

rode out on horseback to chase them away.

I barely registered the fate of the absent villagers of

would become more complex as my childhood drew

I saw it was a baby. I said nothing until we had

I met members of the even larger postwar

” he asked. “It’s just stuff we collected. Why should you

she was amazed by its weight. She got one her sonsin-law

courtesy of our raid on the Alexandroni Brigade. Now

I couldn’t help noticing the lack of security. Two days

there was a national exhibition celebrating the achievements of the

the cemetery was tiny. The chances of anyone being

I knew there would be a retaliation raid