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In 1948, a group of World War II pilots volunteered to fight for Israel in the War of Independence. | dG1feDl6TzRmS09WcTQ
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00:00I grew up in an age of very virulent anti-semitism.
00:11I didn't deny my Judaism, but I wasn't happy about being Jewish.
00:19What changed me was knowing what Hitler did to the Jews.
00:25I couldn't live with myself if I didn't.
00:29It was desperation time in Palestine, and I said, look, I know there's going to be a
00:36war there, and I'm a fighter pilot, and I want to go there.
00:40The 1948 war was the most significant of the Israeli-Arab wars.
00:44It was a matter of life and death.
00:47I was going to help the Jews out.
00:50I was going to help my people out.
00:53We landed at Natal Brazil, got to Casablanca, Rome.
00:57We had the fun of the town.
00:59We weren't looking for trouble, but we were always looking for action.
01:02We were young, good-looking, had hair.
01:05We had a lot of testosterone, and we didn't want to waste it.
01:11My airplane just sunk like this.
01:13We were flying wild-tough cocktail.
01:18I knew, actually, you're going to die.
01:26You want to stop us, shoot us down.
01:28I knew what had happened to other downed pilots, and I wasn't going to be taken prisoner.
01:40I said to the guys, we will never surrender.
01:45There will not be another Holocaust.
01:50Maybe God spared us in World War II so that we could help the remnants of our people survive.
01:57I was born to be here in that moment of history.
02:13Actually, we managed to study those of us who've looked into it.
02:20I greyed our peace 2 and 1 and 4 wellbeing.
02:23We've got a word for tens если that were Sunny in the Skyram just so that we will change everything Elder.
02:25Do you weigh in on?
02:27If not, I just look for you.
02:29There are nooks where the clothes are in.
02:31We've got to face.
02:32We're not going to face too much.
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