re deir yassin in article hm apr angell cs brown edu hm cs brown edu harry mamaysky writes arab civilians did die at dir yassin but there was no massacre first of all the village housed many armed troops nobody ever produced the meagerest evidence for this it does not appear in several long published accounts by irgun participants even some irgun propagandists do not make this claim secondly the irgun and stern fighters had absolutely no intentions of killing civilians several members of the irgun attacking party including the leader deposited personal declarations in the irgun archives jabotinsky institute tel aviv which state that the lehi proposed to liquidate the village after the conquest it seems the begin overruled this plan however the willingness of many of the attackers to seriously consider this possibility serves as instructive character evidence the village was attacked only for its military significance the haganah tried to get the irgun to attack a village with real military significance but it was considered too hard the soft target of deir yassin was chosen instead in fact a warning was given to the occupants of the village to leave before the attack was to begin there was intention probably originating with begin to give such a warning but the loudspeaker truck got stuck in a ditch before reaching the village everyone knows that by all rational standards dir yassin was not a massacre by all rational standards you should be posting from b cpu the killing was unintentional the village housed arab snipers and arab troops thus it was attacked for its military significance it was not attacked with intentions of killing any civilians a lie repeated is still a lie to even compare dir yassin in which some or so arabs died to the holocaust is absurd the irgun did not want to kill any civilians the village had almost inhabitants most of whom survived harry brendan
