re deir yassin in article apr virginia edu rj s virginia edu get thee to a nunnery writes this is such bullshit deir yassin was an unprovoked attack on the part of the jews and a massacre defines it best in my opinion the village of deir yassin had had a pact with the jews a peace pact but the irgun purposely broke this agreement in order to scare off the palestinians i might grant that this village housed armed arabs i doubt it but nothing in the archives and available literature indicates that this was a motivating force amongst the irgun the deir yassin massacre was part of an over all strategy to intimidate the palestinians to flee the jewish homeland and contrary to your belief many civilians were killed deir yassin was later advertized by the very jews who perpetrated it because it was useful in getting many palestinians to leave the palestinians were rightfully scared off because they did not want another deir yassin i m not necessarily condemning the israelites here atrocities were aslo committed on the part of the arabs israelophiles should just be careful in thinking that they are and were the good guys in the middle east both arab and jew suck equally rj s you say that there is no evidence that what motivated the irgun to attack dir yassin was its strategic importance in fact begin who was in charge of the irgun wrote that dir yassin was attacked for its military significance dir yassin was merely a battle in the war of liberation people died but the thing was never intended to be a masacre that this hapenned is a tragedy of war not a crime of the irgun harry
