re dir yassin in article hm apr angell cs brown edu hm cs brown edu harry mamaysky writes from myths and facts by leonard j davis near east research inc great someone will be posting from protocols of the elders of zion next unlike the plo s almost exclusive focus on civilian targets at this time the plo did not exist and would not for the next years you knew that didn t you perhaps you might want to add up all the jewish civilians killed during the war i ll opt for the massacre at deir yassin which do you think is the greater in however eric silver of the guardian britain interviewed a survivor mophammed sammour who testified that out of a population of were killed while we are talking about this man i have included more of his testimony that harry naturally does not use nor does myths and facts i wonder why no doubt he was lying right harry the reason was mainly economic that is to capture booty in order to maintain the bases which we had then established with very poor resources the main idea despite this remained the conquest of the village by force of arms something which was then unknown in the country and became a turning point in jewish military operations yehuda lapidot jabontinsky archives testimony apart from the military discussion the lehi put forward a proposal to liqui date the residents of the village after the conquest in order to show the arabs what happens when the izl and the lehi set out together on an operation and for another main reason it would cause a great uproar throughout the land and would be an important turning point in the course of the battles the clear aim was to break the arab morale and raise somewhat the morale of the jewish commu nity in jerusalem which had been hit hard time after time especially recenctly by the desecration of jewish bodies which fell into arab hands yehuda lapidot jabotinsky archives testimony as quoted by yisrael segal in the deir yassin file published by koteret rashit th january so it wasn t like the holocaust more like lidice a warning a punishment collective and inflicted on unarmed innocents just not as through when it comes to prisoners old people and children there were differences of opinion but the majority was for liquidation of all the men in the village and any other force that opposed us whether it be old people women or children benzion cohen commander of the attack on deir yassin j a t let me put in some words here a premeditated b murder what do you say about the eyewitness testimony of the man in command we had prisoners and before the retreat we decided to liquidate them we also liquidated the wounded as anyway we could not give them first aid in one place about eighty arab prisoners were killed after some of them had opened fire and killed one of the people who came to give them first aid arabs who dressed up as arab women were also found and so they started to shoot the women also who did not hurry to the area where the prisoners were concentrated j a t shooting prisoners the wounded as a warning to hurry sounds very familiar to me how about you heard of other people other places doing these things in one case the zahran family only one out of twenty five survived in another house they caught the sixteen year old son fuad his mother was holding him they killed him with a knife the mother spent twenty years after that in a mental hospital a young woman and her two year old baby were shot in the street their bodies were left there they moved to the centre of the village and started to kill everybody they saw or heard as soon as anybody opened his door they were using bombs grenades machine guns submachine guns my cousin escaped with bullet holes in his clothes one of the officers put his machinegun through a window and started shooting outwards killing everybody who moved they killed my uncle ali hassan zeidan and my aunt fatima she heard him call help me she ran to him and they killed her another neighbour haj yarah heard some voices and came out they killed him too his son muhammad who was about seventeen heard his father call him and went to the same place they killed him his mother heard her son cry for help she ran out and they killed her that was near my house i saw this muhammad arif sammour funny how myths and facts does not see fit to include this too after all if he is reliable enough to report casualties why not the actual events what do you say about this harry in the exchange that followed four men were killed and a dozen were wounded by noon time the battle was over and the shooting had ceased although there was a calm the village had not yet surrendered the irgun and lehi men came out of hiding and began to clean the houses they shot whoever they saw women and children included the commanders did not try and stop the massacre i pleaded with the commander to order his men to cease fire but to no avail in the meantime twenty five arabs had been loaded on a truck and driven through mahane yehuda and zichron yosef at the end of the drive they were taken to the quarry bvetween deir yassin and givat shaul and murdered in cold blood meir pa il interview with yediot ahronot 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
