Top Highlights

• The man who pushed the Israeli government into the war turned into one of the most implacable enemies of the occupation that resulted from it.
• “Matti Peled, the general of the title,
• Miko Peled tells us how he followed in the footsteps of the general, from parachutist to fighter for peace, although his beloved 13-year-old niece was killed by suicide bombers.
• when the Israeli army, in lethal force, invaded their communities in 1947–48 and drove them, in their hundreds of thousands, out of their homes; frequently looting and/or blowing up homes, but if the houses were beautiful and/or well situated, taking them for themselves.
• His mother, Zika, was offered one of these confiscated houses. She refused it.