From: jeff davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Apr 22 2002 - 17:08:57 MDT
--- "Damien R. Sullivan" <phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu>
wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 10:11:38AM -0700, David
> Lubkin wrote:
>
> > In high school in Israel, I was taught this
> version of history as well.
> > This may have occurred to some extent, but there
> are now revisionist
> > histories that argue that there is credible
> evidence that Jewish
> > Palestinians in the Haganah and later, Zahal, did
> violently "encourage"
> > Arabs to leave their homes during the 1948
> establishment of Israel.
>
> Not to mention Irgun:
> On April 9, 1947, a group of Irgun commandos raided
> the Arab
> village of [24]Dayr Yasin (modern Kefar Sha'ul),
> killing all 254 of
> its inhabitants.
> (Encyclopedia Brittanica)
>
This document may have further info on this subject,
It's not very long, and Deir Yasin is covered about
halfway through, but I warn against going there and
checking it out. You'll feel better if you just leave
it alone.
http://www.balkanunity.org/mideast/english/zionism/ch04.htm
Best, Jeff Davis
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth
becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
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