For Palestinians, April 9, 1948, triggered a 76-year diaspora and a calamity known as the Naqba (catastrophe). Like the Israeli disaster of October 7, 2023, the Israeli bloodbath of April 9, 1948 in Deir Yassin caused catastrophic shock waves in Palestine, tremors whose repercussions are even greater today in the occupied West Bank. and in the Gaza Strip. However, unlike the Israeli trauma of October 7, 2023, the events of April 9, 1948 were only Israel’s launching pad for 76 years of brutal bloodshed and expulsions of more than 750,000 Palestinians in 1948 and counting. . up to 350,000 in 1967. The ethnic cleansing of Gaza is only a continuation of this despicable policy of expulsion of Palestinians from their ancestral lands. In his diary, David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, said that “the mandatory departure of the Valley Arabs from the proposed Jewish state can give us everything we never had, even when we were autonomous at the time of the Second World War”. . . . the First and Second Temples. . . We will have to expel the Arabs and take their positions and if we have to use force to secure our own right to establish ourselves in those positions, then we have force at our disposal. ”
And unlike the reaction of the U. S. and the West and Israel after October 7, 2023, the U. S. and (with a few exceptions) European countries have never expressed serious objections or considerations about Palestinian lives or their dispossession. to be complicit in the longest colonial crime in the history of fashion.
Although April 9, 1948, is a day of infamy for Palestinians, few memorial ceremonies will be allowed anywhere, including in Palestine.
Seventy-six years ago today, organized Jewish terrorist groups, coupled with the Jewish terrorist gangs Irgun and Stern, attacked the village of Deir Yassin, a Christian village with a population of about six hundred people; 112 women, young and old were brutally murdered in a bloodbath that has been likened to the Nazi bloodbath of Jews at Babi Yar in Kiev, Ukraine. To add insult to injury, some of the survivors were stripped naked, loaded onto truck beds, and paraded on a humiliating triumphal ride through Jerusalem’s Jewish quarters, where Holocaust survivors mocked them, expelled them from the city, and shot them. In total, more than 250 villagers were bathed in blood. By late afternoon, 55 young survivors were loaded onto trucks and dumped into an alley in Jerusalem.
To its credit, Mrs. Hind Husseini, the daughter of one of the oldest Palestinian families in Jerusalem, took in the young people and opened an orphanage to space out those young people whose parents were killed in a heinous crime. In 1948 and 1949, some 550 Palestinian villages were razed and permanently wiped off the map. Some ironies: the Israelis would replace the name of the village with Kfar Shaul, move Holocaust survivors to homes that were not destroyed, build an intellectual facility on the site and the site itself. Instead of being punished for this heinous crime, the leaders of those terrorist gangs would eventually become prime ministers and politicians.
They chased the pursuers. Journalists documented the massacre: “Bodies scattered across the town square, several civilians were disemboweled, others thrown into a well and several women were disfigured after the malicious theft of their jewelry: their ears and their arms. For those who wish to seek the truth, see the full and in-depth report by Ofer Aderet (a self-hating Jew) from July 16, 2017: Testimonies of the censored Deir Yassin massacre: “They piled up the bodies and the They burned. ” A young man tied to a tree. and he set it on fire. A woman and an elderly man were shot in the back. The girls took cover against a wall and fired a gun. The testimonies collected through filmmaker Neta Shoshani about the Deir Yassin bloodbath are difficult to understand. Israeli historian Benny Morris noted: “Entire families were riddled with bullets…men, women and young people were gunned down as they left their homes; The Americans were disarmed and shot. [Israeli terrorist group] Haganah [sic. ] intelligence reported that “there were loads of dead. ” Some of the prisoners transferred to prison locations, including women and children, were brutally murdered by their captors.
In a CP article entitled “The Deir Yassin Massacre”, Professor William James Martin wrote the following on May 13, 2004:
On April 9, 1948, members of the underground Jewish terrorist organization Irgun or IZL, led by Menachem Begin, who would become Israeli prime minister in 1977, entered the peaceful Arab village of Deir Yassin, massacred 250 men and women, young people and other victims. Al Irgun was joined through the Jewish terrorist organization, the Stern Gang, led by Yitzhak Shamir, who later succeeded Begin as Israel’s prime minister in the early 1980s. as well as the Haganah [sic. ], the defense force under the command of David Ben-Gurion. The Irgun, the Stern Gang and the Haganah [sic. ] later joined together to form the Israel Defense Forces. Their tactics haven’t changed.
The bloodbath in Deir Yassin was widely publicized through the terrorists and the numerous piled up corpses presented to the media. In Jaffe [sic. ], which at the time was 98% Arab, as well as in other Arab communities, trucks with loudspeakers drove down the street. Begin said at the time: “We have sown terror among the Arabs and in all the surrounding villages. In one fell swoop, we replaced the strategic situation.
The April 9, 1948 massacre of more than 250 Palestinian civilians in the Christian village of Deir Yassin (Yassin Monastery) has been whitewashed by Israel, the UN, the media, and the so-called civilized and law-abiding Western world, a world that lectures Palestinians on morality. the rule of law and democracy – and about a Western world that has sown the scourge of genocidal wars, anguish and chaos – from Lithrougha in the west, to Afghanistan, Kashmir and Bangladesh in the east, and between Iraq and Iran. , Syria, Lebanon and Palestine.
Impulsive liberals and apologists for Israel like AIPAC, Brett Stephens, and people like Alan Silverman (one of the many characters whose nasty and hateful emails pop up in my inbox) are on a project to cover up a myriad of Israeli brutalities inflicted on Israel. The Palestinians, the other indigenous peoples whose ethnic cleansing remains Israel’s ultimate goal.
Professor Martin states that:
From about 1938 until the founding of Israel, Begin was the head of the Irgun. This organization regularly murdered British infantrymen in Palestine and hung their bodies trapped in booths in public places. Under Begin, the Irgun blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946, killing 97 British officials [most of whom were Palestinians, plus a relative]. The Stern gang, led by Shamir, also assassinated the United Nations representative in Palestine, Count Bernadotte, in 1948.
But Deir Yassin was not the only bloodbath perpetrated through the Israel Defense Forces. This army, led by Moshe Dayan, took the unarmed and defenseless village of al-Dawazyma, located in the Hebron Hills, slaughtered 80 to 100 of its citizens with blood, and threw their bodies into graves. “The youths were killed by smashing their heads with sticks. . . The remaining Arabs were then locked up in houses, and the village was systematically razed to the ground. . . (Nur Masalha, The Historical Roots of the Palestine Refugee Question).
According to Yitzhak Rabin’s biography:
We went out, Ben-Gurion with us. Alon reiterates his question: “What to do with the population?”BG waved his hand to say, “Kick them out!” . . . I have identified that it is imperative to expel the inhabitants.
Continuing the narrative, Ben-Gurion University historian Benny Morris writes in “Operation Dani and the Palestinian Exodus from Lydda and Ramle in 1948,” Middle East Journal, 40.
On July 12 [1948] at 1:30 p. m. Lieutenant Colonel Yitzhak Rabin, head of Operation Dani, issued the following order: “1. The population of Lydda will have to be expelled quickly, regardless of their age. They will have to be directed to Beit Nabala,. . . Implement them immediately. The Yaftah brigades carried out his orders and expelled the remaining 50,000 to 60,000 citizens and refugees camped in and around the two cities.
On July 13, around noon, Operation Dani Headquarters reported to the IDF General Staff/Operations: “The police fort in Lydda has been captured. [The troops] are busy expelling the population. . . The population of Lydda was forced to march eastwards towards the Arab legion lines; many citizens of Ramle were transported in trucks or buses. Obstructing the roads. . . Tens of thousands of refugees walked, gradually losing their belongings along the way. It was a hot summer day, as the Arab chroniclers say. Like Sheikh Muhammed Nimr al-Khatib, he claimed that many young people died during the march from dehydration and disease. An Israeli witness described the events: the column of refugees “began with [abandoned] utensils and furniture and, at the end, with the bodies of men, women and young people. “
There were many other villages of the same type whose Arabic names have almost been erased from memory, though not entirely. These facts have been known to some historians, but have been systematically denied throughout official Israeli histories, because, in fact, Israel never took any responsibility for the exodus of Palestinians from the land of the present-day State of Israel.
To those interested in the facts, I would recommend Ilan Pappe’s must-read book, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Pappe is an Israeli citizen and holds a chair of history at the University of Exeter; ardent defenders of the faith, Christian Zionists, and apologists for Israel classify him as a self-hating Jew.
Based on extensive excerpts from Israel’s National Archives, aggregating private interviews, testimonies, a wealth of documents, diaries, and video recordings, Pappe’s e-book chronicles Jewish terror in pre-Israel Palestine. The second part of the book tells the story of the post-April 9, 1948 implementation of the United Nations partition plan, a plan that disadvantaged Palestinians in their lives, their birthrights, their country, their identity, their property, their non-public property, and their dignity.
Emboldened by the Balfour Declaration, Zionists formulated a plan in the 1930s to ethnically cleanse Palestine of its indigenous population. Demonizing the Palestinians as cockroaches, jackals, subhuman, primitive and filthy, and with the help of European Zionists, pressure was exerted on Britain by enforcing the Balfour Declaration of 1917.
This declaration called for the status quo of a homeland for Jews in Palestine. Pappe documents Britain’s Machiavellian plan to hand over Palestine to European Jewry; The fact that the British (smallpox in their home) were complicit in this crime is demonstrated through their presence when a defenseless Palestinian village, one after another, was wiped off the face of the earth. In fact, British Mandate forces in Palestine provided logistics to Jewish terrorist organizations, adding military education and weapons. Pappe cites the example of a British sergeant who trained Jewish terrorists in the use of bayonets; The sergeant indicated that “killing filthy Arabs” with bayonets would save ammunition for other purposes.
According to Pappe, Plan Dalet was a military plan whose sole purpose was to depopulate Palestine of its indigenous population in order to create an ethnically natural Jewish state. The plan followed systematic implementation. The first was the infiltration of Palestinian villages and communities through Jewish spies and data-gathering personnel, posing as businessmen or farmers befriending locals to collect data. And rarely did those Jewish spies (as they still do today) pose as Palestinian Arabs. The names of the Mukhtars (elders of the network) and the organizational structures of the network were inventoried; The main points of village design were meticulously recorded, and data on all aspects (rich agricultural land, water resources, topographical data, demographics) were recorded. Pappe documents those documents under the title “Village Archives,” files that were eventually sent to the headquarters of the Jewish leadership in Tel Aviv. Collected over fifteen years, including the interception of cables and communications (with British complicity) between leaders of the Palestinian resistance, this data prepared the ground for the implementation of Plan Dalet.
In a nutshell, Plan Dalet is a military plan whose sole objective is to terrorize, through brutal and asymmetrical force, the unarmed Palestinians and expel them from their lands.
Under the cloak of darkness, the Jewish terrorists entered the villages from the 3 weakest flanks; Bombs were thrown through the windows of alternate houses, and when terrified villagers emerged from their homes, they were machine-gunned in cold blood. The same tactics were used later or earlier in the day. With the help of masked informants, men were executed in the middle of the town square or on the outskirts of villages. Often, an organization of men was ordered to dig graves in which the corpses were deposited and, in the manner of the Nazis, these unsuspecting villagers were in turn shot and buried in mass graves. The coup de grâce for rural Palestine was the abstract eviction of the entire population, following looting, jewelry theft, and ISIS-style attacks on women and girls, in addition to the rape of girls.
Once a village was ethnically cleansed, the rich agricultural lands were appropriated for collective kibbutzim. The fate of the maximum structures was the systematic demolition (bombing and razing) of houses, mosques, schools and churches. Crimes that are still being committed in the West Bank and especially in Gaza, even as I write. In three years, more than 530 Palestinian villages have been reduced to ruins and permanently erased from historic Palestine, a land desecrated, desecrated and made ungodly, a land whose Palestinian population lives in the synthetic intelligence slaughterhouse of a murderous country. regime led by a self-centered megalomaniacal terrorist. Ironically, the AI program is called Gospel. I will never remember what a Jewish friend told me: “On synagogue pews [across the United States] there were envelopes from Tu Bishvat marked through the Jewish Federation requesting a quote for planting trees in Israel. To cover up their dastardly acts, Israeli leaders, with the help of diaspora Jews, planted pine forests in each of the more than 530 sites of what were once Palestinian villages. And to this day, the visual remains of houses, mosques and churches, although made of rubble reminiscent of ancient archaeological sites, bear witness to the Jewish attempt to erase Palestine from the annals of history.
What these donors did not know was that the trees had been planted in razed Palestinian villages where a non-violent agrarian population has thrived for centuries. In addition to this cynical cover-up, on July 3, 2000, the Israeli newspaper Maariv reported on the “Great Israel Tree Fraud Scandal: Not All Trees Planted There Stay,” in which the Israeli government was denounced for transporting busloads of tourists/donors to the sites where they were made so that their donations to the tree fund were being used wisely. It turns out that at dusk, the saplings planted the day before thanks to generous donations were “cynically” uprooted “to make way for the next day’s full buses. “Maariv “printed 3 photographs taken from the same vantage point on two consecutive days at the end of June”
Pappe describes this reprehensible policy aimed at erasing the Palestinian presence and identity as a memorial.
How can Holocaust survivors, those who need to keep reminding us of Nazi atrocities, adopt Gestapo tactics to bring this monument to light?
Presented in chronological order, the meticulous record of Pappe’s genocidal slaughter highlights the following: These Jewish terrorist crimes were so successful in ethnically cleansing more than three hundred villages until early 1948, that the terrorists were emboldened when they began attacking urban centers. On page 91 and under the heading “Urbicide,” Pappé tells his readers that Ben-Gurion and his cronies moved to urban Palestine in Jaffa, Haifa, Acre, and Safad. In the past, Jewish terrorists introduced the typhoid virus into drinking water, killing many civilians. A similar attempt in Gaza failed when the two Jewish chemists were arrested. In Haifa, barrel bombs (loaded with oil and explosives) were announced in Palestinian neighborhoods, killing and terrorizing civilians, and jeeps, equipped with loudspeakers, drove along Arab roads. neighborhoods in Jaffa, Haifa and other urban centers, advising Palestinians to flee for fear of being killed. They suffer the same fate as this or that village.
Jerusalem, the coveted spoils of murderous intruders.
To frighten the Palestinian population of Jerusalem, the Posh Semiramis hotel in a western suburb of Jerusalem bombed killing, among other victims, a Spanish diplomat, and the attack on the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, in which another 94 people were killed when an entire wing of the hotel collapsed, a message to the British to consent. remain blindfolded, be silent, and leave Palestine, soon.
Years later, Menachem Begin (the most wanted Jewish terrorist over whose head the British put a bunch of Georges) would later become Prime Minister of Israel, and would boast of his role in this murderous crime and other Irgun terrorists.
And yes, he would get the Nobel Peace Prize. This is like awarding Goebbels or Mussolini the prize for the Hughitarian boy of the year.
Which brings me to this. . .
The leaders of the Jewish terrorists learned that if the Palestinian population of Jerusalem could be terrorized and ethnically cleansed as rural and other urban spaces had been cleansed, then courage was within their reach.
Thus, after perfecting their murderous tactics and terrorizing Palestinian villages with their successive and successful tactics of ethnic cleansing, and as has been said in the past, the Jewish terrorists set their sights on Deir Yassin. It was not only the terrorist thugs who engaged in such atrocious barbarity as Hitler’s Gestapo. , however, they continued to boast about it and broadcast, once again, through jeep-mounted loudspeakers installed in Palestinian neighborhoods, to mock, threaten, harass and sow concern in the world. Remnants of the Palestinian population
And thousands of Palestinians fled for their lives, their clothes on their backs.
And so began the Nakba (Catastrophe in ar. ). 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their ancestral lands. And the world stood idly by, as it still does today, as this 76-year-old tragedy repeats itself repeatedly.
Israel was born out of hatred, apathy, brutality and crimes of epic proportions. And because the same hatred, apathy, brutality and monstrous inclination to subjugate, dehumanize, kill and rule other peoples who yearn to see the yoke of the profession are deeply rooted in Israel’s DNA, it has thrived on the banality of its ethnocentrism. Encouraged by their political, military, and rabbinical leaders, most Israelis see Palestinians as grimy Arabs, cockroaches, jackals, and subhumans.
The Israelis built a memorial to the Holocaust to tell the world, “Never again. “The once-thriving Palestinian village of Deir Yassin is very close to the Holocaust memorial. And what did the Israelis build on the holy site of Deir Yassin?Yes: a psychiatric facility. Yes, a house for Meshugaim (Heb. for the insane). For more than 60 years, Israel’s prime ministers have risen from the ranks of the Haganah, the Irgun, Stern and other devout Jewish fanatics. And now they are led by a racist warmonger encouraged by some other racist, bigoted, orange-haired schoolyard tyrant, and through a president more involved with his election in November than with what his gifts of 2,000-pound bombs are doing to turn Gaza into a graveyard. Hence, the young men – fragmented into shattered torsos – groan under the bloodless and merciless coffins of cement and metal. .
In 1988, La Belle Femme and I visited the Church of the Holy Nativity in Bethlehem where we bought some candles that have a special meaning. On special occasions, I light a candle for a brief moment to think of someone special, someone who desires a remedy, some kind of miracle, meditate and invoke that deity, whether it be Elohim, God, or Allah (and aren’t they all the same?) to draw a Deus Ex Machina for a loved one, a friend, or acquaintance. And for me, religion oscillates between trust and doubt, a kind of struggle between center and mind, a migration from certainty to uncertainty and back to certainty.
Today, I will light the candle longer to honor only the reminiscence of the innocent lives brutally wasted at Deir Yassin on April 9, 1948, but also the lives of the thousands of Palestinians wasted in Gaza – through God’s non-elect and their so-called Arabs. siblings.