Yerachmiel Kahanovich says he shot Palestinian civilians in 1948, under orders, and drove out the population of villages.

When he says he fired one or two shots at a village, I can't tell whether he means he shot a couple of people or fired in the air.

The Arabs sought in that war to expel the Jews, and initially they seemed to have a real chance of succeeding. The two sides were roughly in moral parity. How different from the situation today, where Israel is not threatened at all but calculatingly continues its land grab.