""Menahem Begin, the Leader of the Irgun, tells how 'in Jerusalem, as elsewhere, we were the
first to pass from the defensive to the offensive...Arabs began to flee in terror...Hagana was
carrying out successful attacks on other fronts, while all the Jewish forces proceeded to advance
through Haifa like a knife through butter'...The Israelis now allege that the Palestine war began
with the entry of the Arab armies into Palestine after 15 May 1948. But that was the second
phase of the war; they overlook the massacres, expulsions and dispossessions which took place
prior to that date and which necessitated Arab states' intervention." Sami Hadawi, "Bitter
Harvest."
The Deir Yassin Massacre of Palestinians by Jewish soldiers
"For the entire day of April 9, 1948, Irgun and LEHI soldiers carried out the slaughter in a cold
and premeditated fashion...The attackers 'lined men, women and children up against the walls
and shot them,'...The ruthlessness of the attack on Deir Yassin shocked Jewish and world opinion
alike, drove fear and panic into the Arab population, and led to the flight of unarmed civilians
from their homes all over the country." Israeli author, Simha Flapan, "The Birth of Israel."
Was Deir Yassin the only act of its kind?
"By 1948, the Jew was not only able to 'defend himself' but to commit massive atrocities as well.
Indeed, according to the former director of the Israeli army archives, 'in almost every village
occupied by us during the War of Independence, acts were committed which are defined as war
crimes, such as murders, massacres, and rapes'...Uri Milstein, the authoritative Israeli military
historian of the 1948 war, goes one step further, maintaining that 'every skirmish ended in a
massacre of Arabs.'" Norman Finkelstein, "Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict."
Anti-Zionist yes, not anti-Semitic. But then again the Zionist Front has a lot on it's conscience. As does Hamas, Hizbollah, and other terrorist groups. |
