The true story of the massacre at deir yassin
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- BLOOD LIBEL - THE TRUE STORY OF THE MASSACRE AT DEIR YASSIN By Dr. Uri Milstein Translation from Hebrew by Yonatan Silverman  
CHAPTER ONE THE MASSACRE THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN Manipulation That Causes Historic Watersheds The world is cognizant of the episode of Deir Yassin that began on April 9, 1948, to a greater extent than every other incident in Israel's War of Independence. a The affair was a basic founding myth in Palestinian consciousness and in Palestinian culture. b It serves essentially as the grounds for the claim that the Jews undertook genocide against the Palestinians in 1948, and initiated, knowingly and intentionally, the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from the territory that was designated for the state of Israel; deportation from the territories that were designated for the Palestinian state and were occupied by Israel, and deportation from the state of Israel after it was established. 1 According to the Palestinians, "the massacre" in Deir Yassin is an "unmovable incident" in the evolution of the state of Israel and has formed it in their eyes as a terrorist state that does not forebear from massacring Palestinians – in Kibia in 1953, in Kfar Kassem in 1956, in Sabra and Shatila in 1982, in Jenin in 2003 and in Lebanon in 2006. The lack of readiness of the Palestinians to make peace with Israel, or at least establish relations of non-belligerency, fifty nine years after the War of Independence, stems in no small measure from the place that the Deir Yassin affair holds in contemporary Palestinian national consciousness. Therefore, the Deir Yassin episode is not only an historic episode, but a very contemporary episode, that will occupy us for the foreseeable future. It makes clear for example why the head of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat, in 2000, rejected the proposal of Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, to establish a Palestinian state on almost all the territories of Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. It makes clear why the Hamas government rejects any compromise. Reconciliation with the "murderers" of Deir Yassin is not to be taken into account since reconciliation with them would be tantamount to "you murdered and you inherited." The Deir Yassin affair is not only a founding myth of the Palestinians. It is also a founding myth of the new Israeli left, that casts doubt on the justification for the establishment and continued existence of the state of Israel as a Jewish national state, acts to return to the Palestinians the rights "that were robbed by the Jews" and is also interested in turning Israel into a country of all its inhabitants. The head of the "Talbiya School" and the founding father of the anti-Zionist Israeli left, a man of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Prof. Martin Buber, d employed the massacre that didn't happen in Deir Yassin in his struggle against "crimes" that the Zionists committed in the War of Independence. Together with his comrade in outlook, a man of the same university. Akiba Ernest Simon, and other figures from the same school, in 1949, Buber sent a protest to Ben Gurion against new immigrants settling in Deir Yassin. "The matter of Deir Yassin is a black stain on the honor of the Hebrew nation…It is better for now to leave the land of Deir Yassin un-worked and it is better to leave the houses of Deir Yassin unoccupied, than to cause an act whose negative symbolic importance goes far beyond its practical use." 2 On April 7, 2005, two days before the anniversary of the Deir Yassin incident, the Jewish/Israeli poet Samuel Yerushalmi a published his poem on the website of "A Just Society" b On the houses of Deir Yassin, suddenly, darkness falls Everything was boiling and trembling all around The murderous hand raided over every small window Turned out to be false.
The victims, that were massacred, we will remember it. The innocent murdered ones of The Disaster We will never forget! The sight of rivers of blood, shed for nothing, Will not depart from our eyes. The dread of Deir Yassin Will not leave our hearts! Practically everyone agrees that in order for it to be possible to reach a settlement with the Palestinians one needs to solve the problem of the refugees. Prof. Benny Morris, an expert in the causes for the creation of the refugee problem, has written: "Ironically indeed, the operation that has had it seems more far reaching influence than any other incident in the war, on the flight of Arab villages from the land of Israel, was not an operation of the Haganah, but a joint operation of Etzel and Lehi – the attack on Deir Yassin." 3 If we prove the thesis of this book, that there never was any massacre in Deir Yassin, it will become clear to all that the Zionist left, in its desire to undermine the political power of the "militarist" Revisionists and the "hallucinating adherents of the Whole Land Of Israel", has contributed, more than any other party in the early settlement and the state, to intensifying the conflict between Jews and Palestinians, and to the deaths of very many people among both nations. Perhaps this insight will effectively neutralize in some small measure the elements that are feeding the conflict and advance a settlement. Directory: gifiles -> attach -> 131 attach -> Russia 110204 Basic Political Developments attach -> Unclassified//for official use only attach -> Adaptability Sustainment attach -> Pop-up 1 ("C" Chechnya) Header Text: Emir of the Caucasus Emirate Doku Umarov Image attach -> Russia and Islam are not Separate attach -> Chapter 13: The Northern Caucasus attach -> Russia 100209 Basic Political Developments attach -> The evolution attach -> The devolution 131 -> Feb 4-5 2010 Foreign, Economic and Industry Ministers meet in Buenos Aires Download 2.17 Mb. Share with your friends:
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