re deir yassin in article hm apr angell cs brown edu hm cs brown edu harry mamaysky writes in article martinb brise ere umontreal ca aurag ere umontreal ca aurag hassan writes i am replying to this because i haven t seen anyone else do so yet it seems rather odd really as there are so few really wierd posters left who aren t fascists or arab extremists arab civilians did die at dir yassin but there was no massacre yes it was and it was clearly admitted so by the troops who carried it out and then stupidly deposited testimony in their own archives to that effect first of all the village housed many armed troops source noone is claiming this anymore except you would you like to name one credible historian who asserts this i believe that even begin has the decency not to claim this secondly the irgun and stern fighters had absolutely no intentions of killing civilians yes they did and thye said so they said they went their with the intention of killing all the men and all the women who got in their way their own archives remember this is not hostile testimony the village was attacked only for its military significance in fact a warning was given to the occupants of the village to leave before the attack was to begin sound van bogged down in a ditch no warning given by all rational standards dir yassin was not a massacre the killing was unintentional yes it was and no it was not it was a massacre the murder of hundreds of unarmed civilians who had no part in the fighting the surviving men were taken to the local quarry and shot in the back of the head not intentional yeah right the village housed arab snipers and arab troops no it did not you have a source for this slander of course thus it was attacked for its military significance it was not attacked with intentions of killing any civilians the men involved said clearly that the intention was to kill all the men it was a premeditated mass murder nothing else to even compare dir yassin in which some or so arabs died to the holocaust is absurd on that we agree at least the irgun did not want to kill any civilians the village had almost inhabitants most of whom survived yes they did want to kill the inhabitants and many of them were killed this is of course simple to resolve the haganah sent a soldier to report on the massacre he brought a photographer with him he sent in a report the israeli government suppressed it now the government was a labour government since then the revisionists have gotten into power but for some reason likud didn t release the report and its pictures either perhaps you might want to tell me why if it happened as you claim then there will be no pictures of men shot in the head with their hands tied behind their backs no women and children shot as they slept yet for some reason they did not take the chance to clear their own name you have a reason for this don t you i somehow doubt it the facts are exactly as the people responsible claim a premeditated mass murder nothing else no iraqi soldiers no other fighting just ethnic cleansing at work joseph askew joseph askew gauche and proud in the autumn stillness see the pleiades jaskew spam maths adelaide edu remote in thorny deserts fell the grief disclaimer sue see if i care north of our tents the sky must end somwhere actually i rather like brenda beyond the pale the river murmurs on
