Summary
Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, whose interview on the March 1978 invasion of Lebanon Said quotes in the Introduction as an interview no U.S. newspaper carried. The work gives him only as General Gur.
Details
- Gur, in the interview quoted by Said from Al-Hamishmar, May 10, 1978: a million and a half refugees were made along the Suez Canal, where Ismailia, Suez, Port Said and Port Fuad were bombarded; after the massacre at Avivim he had four villages in South Lebanon bombed without authorization; the entire valley of the Jordan had been emptied of its inhabitants in the war of attrition (The Question of Palestine, PDF p.12 / printed p.xi).
- Asked whether the population ought to be punished, he answered that of course it ought, and he had never had any doubt about that; for thirty years, from the Independence War on, Israel had been fighting against the civilian Arab population which inhabited the villages and towns (The Question of Palestine, PDF p.12-13 / printed p.xi-xii).