“We Destroyed Arab Villages To Create Our State”: Retired General

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A retired "Israeli" military general told the "Israeli" Army Radio on his 100 birthday that the "Israeli" army destroyed and depopulated hundreds of Arab villages in order to establishment the state of "Israel" in 1948, and added that "he feels good about it."
"I can sleep with clear mind", Yitzhak Pondak, told the "Israeli" Army Radio [Galei Tzahal] last week, "otherwise the number of Arabs in "Israel" would have been a million more than their number now".
Pondak headed Platoon #53 of the Givati Brigade, and served as "Israel's" ambassador in Tanzania.

"Under my command, soldiers destroyed Arab villages", he said, "We did what we needed to do, otherwise the number of Arabs now would have been a million more".
Responding to a question regarding lectures he gives to "Israeli" soldiers, Pondak said that ""Israel" is still facing the same dangers it faced when it was created in 1948", and added "Should the Jews fail to fight the same way they fought back then, our state will be in real danger".

He also said that he is sorry for the death of 145 "Israeli" soldiers under his command throughout his years of service, and added that "should those soldiers miraculously come back to life now, and witness the current divisions in the "Israeli" Jewish society, they would run back to their graves".

Pondak also served as the "Israeli" Military Commander of the Gaza Strip in the early seventies of last century. He said that the credit former "Israeli" Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, got for "stopping Arab terrorism in 1971 is overrated".
"Sharon was harsh without a reason", he said, "Sharon once told senior military generals that he will give a bottle of Champaign to every soldier who kills an enemy fighter, and will give a soda to every soldier who captures a wounded enemy".

Source: IMEMC