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To: Neocon who wrote (9648)	4/18/2002 6:09:31 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

The Haganah did employ psychological warfare to encourage the Arabs to abandon a few villages. Yigal Allon, the commander of the Palmach (the "shock force of the Haganah"), said he had Jews talk to the Arabs in neighboring villages and tell them a large Jewish force was in Galilee with the intention of burning all the Arab villages in the Lake Huleh region. The Arabs were told to leave while they still had time and, according to Allon, they did exactly that. Allon's exact description of the success of this method: "The flight numbered myriads. The tactic reached its goal completely... the wide areas were cleaned, the danger was taken away from the transportation routes, and we could organize ourselves for the invaders along the borders without worrying about the rear." Begin's version of the impact of Deir Yassin: Arabs throughout the country, induced to believe wild tales of Irgun butchery, were seized with limitless panic and started to flee for their lives. This mass flight soon developed into a maddened, uncontrollable stampede. Of the 800,000 Arabs who lived on the present territory of the state of Israel only some 165,000 are still there. The political and economic significance of this development can hardly be overestimated." Of course, as previously pointed out, the "wild tales of Irgun butchery" were in reality quite accurate. The massacre at Deir Yassin did occur, and it seems quite likely that it was intended to achieve precisely the effect which it did achieve. In retrospect, those who would prefer to see it otherwise have reduced this to "a few villages". I would suggest that Begin and Allon, who report otherwise, were in a rather good position to know whereof they spoke. It is also somewhat unlikely that they would be mouthpieces for Arab propaganda.