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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (8147)	5/4/2005 9:32:17 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 22250

Israeli Historians Admit Ethnic Cleansing .....Part II............................ To top it all off, the best-trained of Arab forces, the Jordanians, were quietly cementing deals with Ben-Gurion's forces even before the war, and each Arab 'leader' ultimately endeavored to see one another's military defeat to enhance his own status. [22] By the end of the war, 78% of Palestine was swallowed up by Jewish militia. However, our purpose is not simply to expose the true balance of forces in the war, but to discover its main tragedy: the mass looting, rape, murder, and expulsion of some 750,000 Palestinians as a direct result of brutal Zionist terror. One of the earliest and most chilling crimes occurred on April 9, 1948, when 254 Palestinian civilians were murdered "in cold blood" at Deir Yassin, as the presiding Red Cross official, Jacques de Reynier, explained. The British Inspector General, Richard Catling, confirmed this: "Many young school girls were raped and later slaughtered. Many infants were also butchered and killed." The leader of Jewish militia, Menachem Begin praised his troops for this act: "Accept [my] congratulations for this splendid act of conquest. Tell your soldiers that they have made history for Israel." (emphasis added) This was only the beginning. Further massacres occurred in dozens more villages; 250 civilians were murdered in Lydda and Ramle, 70,000 of their inhabitants were forced to flee while leaving their belongings behind, hundreds more were killed in a vulnerable village near Hebron, and so on. [23] Morris himself recently noted that, after reviewing more declassified archives, he was forced to revise his earlier estimates from several years ago: "The departure of Arab communities from some sites.described in The Birth as due to fear or IDF military attack or simply unexplained, now appear to have been tinged, if not characterized by [militia] or IDF expulsion orders and actions." He also noted that the new documentation "has revealed new atrocities that I had not been aware of." [24] Morris has also discovered that "there was a central directive by Northern Front to clear the conquered pocket of its Arab inhabitants". This included massacres, which, "followed a similar course: a unit entered a village, rounded up the menfolk.lined them up against a wall, and shot them." [25] Many of these atrocities actually occurred well after the fighting had ended, obviously intended as a terror tactic to continue ethnic cleansing. More massacres from this period are being unearthed even now. John Pilger in June 19th edition of The New Statesman reported that top Israeli student Teddy Katz from Haifa University has shed light on a May 1948 massacre in Tantura: "According to the recorded testimony of 40 witnesses, both Arab and Jewish, half the civilians were shot in a 'rampage'." In a most democratic manner, he had his degree annulled. Another "new historian", Ilan Pappe, who came to Katz's defense and explained that his taping of eyewitness evidence included accounts of "the killing of fathers in front of children, of rape and torture", is also under administrative threat at Haifa.