re deir yassin in article apr cs rit edu bdm cs rit edu brendan d mckay writes i have previously posted quotations by irgun participants that totally destroys begin s whitewash i have no particular desire to post it yet again brendan normally bdm cs anu edu au you apparently think you are some sort of one man judge and jury who can declare total victory and then sit back and enjoy the applause but you ve picked the wrong topic if you think a few rigged quotations can sustain the legend and lie of the deir yassin massacre you have a lot to learn when it comes to historical methodology at the most basic level you should know that there is a big difference between weighing evidence fairly and merely finding quotations that support your preset opinions if you have studied the history of israel at all you must know that many of the sources of your quotations have an axe to grind and therefore you must be very careful about whom you quote for example meir pa il whom you cite was indeed a general a scholar and a war hero but that doesn t mean everything that comes out of his mouth is gold in fact and here your lack of experience shows pa il is such a fanatic embittered leftist that much of his anti israel blathering forget about anti irgun blathering would be considered something like treason in non israel contexts but of course you don t consider this at all when you find a juicy quotation that you can use to attack israel benny morris of hashomer hatzair represents himself as a scholar when he rehashes the old attacks on the irgun don t be fooled it s just the old zionist ideological catfight surfacing as an attack on the then likud government if you will look closely at the section on deir yassin in his book on the war of independence you will see his indictment to be pure hot air and this is the best he can do after decades of digging for any sort of damning evidence unfortunately for him because his book parades itself as scholarly he is forced to put footnotes so you can clearly see that his deir yassin account is based on nothing the deir yassin massacre never took place as the propagandists tell it any more than the sabra and shatila massacres do you get the feeling people like to blame the jews for massacres even if they have to make them up it must sound spicy even some jews like to do it for reasons of their own please don t confuse any of you deir yassin massacre stuff with facts or scholarship you should stick to begin s version unless you find something serious to contradict it vic
