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To: Wayners who wrote (5752)	2/1/2004 5:25:48 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

Under the scare tactics of arabic leadership, Palestinians abandoned their property for fear of genocide of all things. That's kind of like saying that Jews fled Germany due to the scare tactics of their leadership. Zionists slaughtered Palestinians en masse, which scared the Palestinians into fleeing. In this country we have escheatment laws. For example if I abandon money in a bank account for five years, without making any transactions or contacting the bank, the State Government seizes those funds for its own use. If a bank refuses to let you access your account for 5 years, they can then seize your money? Tom

To: Wayners who wrote (5752)	2/2/2004 10:50:14 AM
From: steve kammerer	Respond to of 6945

"If the Palestinians have actual title to the land and are not squatters, seems to me Isreale must be compensating them for it" Where did you get that idea. Israel itself admits that they owe compensation but haven't done it yeat. Deskowitz wrote that only people alive at the time, should be compensated' not estates or relatives. Therefore drag this out for another 50 years and the original people will all be dead is Derskotiz's idea. No Palestinian state was created. Upon being questioned on the Jewish Agency's position on a partition of Palestine, Ben-Gurion was non-committal: "... we stand by the attitude we took last year, that we will be ready to consider the question of a Jewish State in an adequate area of Palestine, and that we are entitled to Palestine as a whole." 20/

To: Wayners who wrote (5752)	2/2/2004 11:04:59 AM
From: steve kammerer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6945

"Under the scare tactics of arabic leadership, Palestinians abandoned their property for fear of genocide of all things." Yes of all things! Israel admits it. One of the most notorious cases of the terrorizing of civilian population occurred, according to Palestinian and other sources, in April 1948 at Deir Yassin, a village near Jerusalem, situated in territory assigned to the Jewish State by the partition resolution. A former Israeli military governor of Jerusalem writes: "We suffered a reverse of a different nature on April 9 when 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. "The event was a disaster in every way. The dissidents held the village for two days and then abandoned it. They earned the contempt of most Jews in Jerusalem, and an unequivocal public repudiation by the Jewish Agency. But they gave the Arabs a strong charge against us, and the words 'Deir Yassin' were used over and over again both to justify their own atrocities and to persuade Arab villagers to join the mass flight which was now taking place all over Palestine." 72/ Other Zionist leaders deny the charges, making this a controversial case. Begin writes: "The enemy propaganda was designed to besmirch our name. In the result it helped us. Panic overwhelmed the Arabs of Eretz Yisrael ... the Arabs began to flee in terror, even before they clashed with Jewish forces. Not what happened in Deir Yassin, but what was invented about Deir Yassin, helped to carve the way to our decisive victories on the battlefield. The legend of Deir Yassin helped us in particular in the conquest of Haifa ... All the Jewish forces proceeded to advance through Haifa like a knife through butter. The Arabs began fleeing in panic, shouting: 'Deir Yassin!'" 73/ Whatever the versions of this controversial case, the psychological effect of such incidents was a mass exodus of the civilian population. The psychological tactics used are described by Yigal Allon: "I gathered all the Jewish mukhtars, who have contact with Arabs in different villages, and asked them to whisper in the ears of some Arabs, that a great Jewish reinforcement has arrived in Galilee and that it is going to burn all of the villages of the Huleh. They should suggest to these Arabs, as their friends, to escape while there is still time. And the rumour spread in all the areas of the Huleh that it is time to flee. The flight numbered myriads. The tactic reached its goal completely. The building of the police station at Halsa fell into our hands without a shot. 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". 74/