Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (70470)	7/15/2003 11:05:37 PM
From: steve kammerer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

My history is correct. I keep hearing the story that they went galloping out of their homes so they could come back later after the other Arabs leveled the place. Unfortunately they became refugees after "combined Etzel and Stern Gang units mounted a deliberate and unprovoked attack on the Arab village of Deir Yassin on the western edge of Jerusalem. There was no reason for the attack. It was a quiet village, which had denied entry to the volunteer Arab units from across the frontier and which had not been involved in any attacks on Jewish areas. The dissident groups chose it for strictly political reasons. It was a deliberate act of terrorism ... "... Women and children had not been given time enough to evacuate the village, although warned to do so by loudspeaker, and there were many of them among the 254 persons reported by the Arab Higher Committee as killed." from; domino.un.org They fled in fear and panic and other were expelled. They are owed reparations. Again, they were NOT the people fighting the Jews during the wars. Surveys show that 17% of the people in the occupied territories want the extermination of Israel. This is a far lower percent than the Israelis who want the Palestinians expelled, exterminated or somehow just removed. This is before the current uprising began.