Another soldier boasted that he had raped an Arab woman and then shot her. Al-Duwayma, prior to its destruction in 1948, was a large Palestinian Arab village some 17 kilometres west of Hebron, with a population of some 2,700. The settlement has since altered its status to that of a co-operative smallholder Moshav. The State of Israel would not have existed. We must not disregard this, with full awareness of the responsibility involved.
All wars are cruel.
There is no way out of that. These opinions are widespread.