Qibya is an Arab village twenty miles northeast of Jerusalem and a mile and a half from he border of Israel. In 1953, someone killed a woman and two children by throwing a hand grenade into a house in the Israel village of Yahud.. After the Jordanian government realized it was the work of its own citizens, the Commander of the Jordan Legion, Glubb Pasha, requested Israeli police blood hounds to cross into Jordan to track down the murderers. Instead, Israel decided to liquidate the entire village of Qibya in reprisal:
Father Ralph Gorman, and American Roman Catholic Priest who had spent years in Jerusalem and editor of "The Sign," National Catholic Magazine of the United States:
"Terror was a political weapon of the Nazis and is still used by the communists. But neither the Nazis nor communists ever used terror in a more cold-blooded and wanton manner than the Israelis in the massacre at Qibya. The official report of the Palestine Truce Supervisor removed any possible doubt that the Israelis, themselves in large part refugees from Hitler's terror, were perpetrators of this horrible slaughter of innocent men, women and children. It also reveals that it was an official act of the State, carried out by an official organ, the army.
The evening of October 14, was like any other for the 1500 inhabitants of the peaceful village until at 9:30 all hell let loose. Mortar shells began exploding from artillery that had been carefully aimed from Israel before dark. After the town had been partly demolished and many of its inhabitants buried in the rubble of falling homes or blown to bits by the exploding shells, half a battalion of the regular Israeli army moved in and surrounded the village to cut off escape. Then followed an orgy of murder that would be incredible if it had not been verified by reliable neutral testimony. Women and children as well as men were murdered deliberately, systematically, and in cold blood. "
<<< The Nazis organized a separate all-volunteer army, under Heinrich Himmler, the Waffen SS. The SS was responsible for the majority of the German war atrocities comparable to those committed by the Zionists. In 1953, Ben-Gurion established an SS equivalent in the Zahal, designated as Commando Unit 101. This all-volunteer unit was responsible for the Qibya massacre and was given exemption from the rules of war as if the Geneva Convention never existed. The first, and only, commander of Commando Unit 101 was Ariel Sharon. >>>
Standard Israeli practice - if you distinguish yourself by brutality in terrorist groups, you later get voted in as Prime Minister of Israel.
Tom
Bitter Harvest pp 119-120 |
