From: tippu@snrc.uow.edu.au (Tippu Hassan)
Subject: Re: Dir Yassin
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In article 93Apr24130647@angell.cs.brown.edu, hm@cs.brown.edu (Harry Mamaysky) writes:
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>
>From _Myths and Facts_, by Leonard J. Davis, Near East Research Inc.,
>1989:
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>[pp. 108-109]
>
>    "Unlike the PLO's almost exclusive focus on civilian targets, the
>100 troups from the Irgun and Stern group that struck at Deir Yassin
>on April 10, 1948, targeted the village for its military importance.
>Deir Yassin was on the road to Jerusalem, which the Arabs had
>blockaded, and it housed Iraqi troups and Palestinian irregulars.
>Snipers based in Deir Yassin were a constant threat to Jewish citizens
>in Jerusalem.
>
>    "Arab civilians were killed at Deir Yassin, but that attack does
>not conform to the propaganda picture that the Arabs have tried to
>paint. The number of Arabs killed was generally reported to be about
>250. In 1983, however, Eric Silver of _The Guardian_ (Britain)
>interviewed a survivor, Mophammed Sammour, who testified that 116 out
>of a population of 800-1000 were killed. 'About three days after the
>massacre,' Sammour explained, 'representatives of each of the five
>clans in Deir Yassin met at the Moslem offices in Jerusalem and made a
>list of the people who had not been found (alive). We went through the
>names.  Nothing has happend since 1948 to make me think this figure
>was wrong.'
>
>    "Unlike the PLO's deliberate attacks on civilians, the killing of
>civilians at Deir Yassin was not premeditated. The attackers left open
>an escape corridor from the village and more than 200 residents left
>unharmed.



why does this remind me of bosnia and ethnic cleansing ??????



tippu



 After the remaining Arabs feigned surrender and then fired
>on the Jewish troops, some of the attackers killed Arab soldiers and
>civilians indiscriminately. Independent observers told _The Guardian_
>that among the bodies they found Arab men disguised as women."




