Deir Yassin
Einstein’s letter condemning the terrorist acts of Irgun and Lehi at Deir Yasin also contained this revealing sentence.
“Most of the Jewish community was horrified at the deed, and the Jewish Agency sent a telegram of apology to King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan.” https://archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYorkTimes.December41948
This is the critical difference between terrorism committed by Lehi and Irgun in the 1930’s and 40’s and that done by Palestinian Arabs from 1920 to the present.
The Jews condemned it while the Arabs celebrated it and even reward it by paying hundreds of millions of dollars annually to the terrorists and their families.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority_Martyrs_Fund
The question is, are you just as horrified by Palestinian terrorism?
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The difference is that Jewish resistance primarily targeted military targets. Deir Yassin (much myths surrounding the supposed massacre) was a military stronghold that was actively sieging and starving out 2,500 Jews under siege in The Old City of Jerusalem. The liberation forces of Irgun and Lehi announced over megaphones for Arab civilians to flee. Many did, the ones remaining remained to support the armed Arab forces that were starving out Jerusalem. A pitched ten hour battle occurred. Arabs used the battle for propaganda purposes and fabricated stories, as did the Hagannah to discredit their rivals the Irgun. The civilian casualties, which either were being held hostage by Arab militia to use as human shields or remained to support them died mostly among military targets targeted by grenades in house to house fighting. Irgun exaggerated Arab losses, A high estimate is 107. Arab used it for propaganda which ironically saved many lives because Arabs fled thus avoiding potential harm. The battle gave cause for Jordan and other Arab nations to join the war and was used for propaganda by Arafat and others for decades after.
So, Irgun warned ahead of time like they did before King David hotel bombing (another military target) and Israel continues to warn before striking but then like now, Arabs use human shields for propaganda purposes choosing the deaths of their own people over saving lives to score political points.
It’s good that we set the record straight here. Hamas terrorist targets soft civilian targets with no warning. Israel targets military targets with warning.
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Survivor of Deir Yassin admitting there were fabricated lies spread such as rape, and children murder
Hussein Khalidi, the senior Arab authority in 1948 Jerusalem, was of the opinion that, “We must make the most of this.” As his assistant Hazim Nusayba reported in a 1998 interview, Khalidi said “we should give this the utmost propaganda possible because the Arab countries apparently are not interested in assisting us and we are facing a catastrophe….So we are forced to give a picture – not what is actually happening – but we had to exaggerate.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72Ata-hY9WQ
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Professor Eliezer Tauber, former dean of Bar Ilan university, used a vast number of testimonies and records from 21 archives (including Israeli, Palestinian, British, American, UN and Red Cross) and testimonies of the Jewish attackers on the one hand, and the Arab survivors on the other hand, the conclusion was there was no massacre, no rape.
“I believe that most of those who were killed were among the fighters and the women and children who helped the fighters,” one of the Arab survivors was later to testify.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/deir-yassin-the-end-of-a-myth/
