In 1988 in Military Court in defense of the sentry from the "Night of the Gliders, Milstein testified that fleeing in the face of danger is a normal phenomenon, that even men who achieved high rank in the IDF acted thus. When the judges asked him to elaborate he told of Yitzhak Rabin (then minister of defense) fleeing the battle he commanded on April 20, 1948 (the"blood convoy").The judges ignored his testimony and Rabin's office refused to speak to journalists about it. Milstein claims that shortly before his death, at a gathering of ex-Palmach members (hosted by Micha Peri in Tel-Aviv) Rabin admitted fleeing the battle.