re deir yassin rj s virginia edu get thee to a nunnery writes first of all harry i am not so uninformed about irgun s terrorist activities i ll give you a few quotes from a book by charles d smith in his palestine and the arab israeli conflict ah palestine and the arab israeli conflict sounds interesting begin directed the irgun to bomb only civilian that s right civilian installations linked to the mandatory authority not military sites this is misleading i supposed charles d smith characterizes the bombing of the king david hotel as a civilian installation too any installation attacked by etzel was linked to some sort of official function of the mandatory government and of course there is the lehi splinter group which included such notable israelis as yitzak shamir the lehi fighters for the freedom of israel resumed its assassinations of british officials civilian and military what kind of civilians i assume charles d smith means completely innocent people who were intentionally targeted right please provide examples and there is of course dair yassin where men woman and children were killed perhaps i m sure for strategic reasons yet what ever happened to the non aggression pact with the hagana i have references for that if you d like it seems to me like blatant scare tactics that begin himself admits to having been very useful in scaring off the palestinian arabs i do have references the revolt los angeles nice strawman in the revolt begin does state that the myth of a massacre at deir yassin may have had the effect of scaring some arabs into fleeing however nowhere does he claim that this was the result of any specific policy of the etzel thus if it did happen it was not so intended i think arab calls for palestinians to leave and fear of a war started by arab hands had a greater effecton arab migration than deir yassin in fact these jewish terrorist groups managed all in all to scare off arabs by may really nice use of caps i like it very effective actually according to many sources including american diplomatic officials the greatest encouragment for arabs to leave their villages came from arab leaders this certainly might be all a matter of semantics however you might say that the hagana did this for war but like i said before how do we not know that the palestinian conflict isn t equatable with a war if israel never got her state the hagana s activities would be lost in history categorized as tewrrorism for sure because it could not be identified with the cause of a state i do take this seriously harry i sincerely think the palestinians are being discriminated against in this case because perhaps everyone thinks their cause is bogus anyway just some stuff to ponder over over and out ramiro ed
