If it is not a ‘conflict,’ what is it exactly? It is a war against Jews and has been for well over a century.
By Laureen Lipsky, ISRAEL HAYOM 29 December 2023
We often hear the phrase, “Israeli-Palestinian conflict” everywhere – in the media, from Israeli officials, written in articles, repeated by foreign policy think tanks and U.S. politicians. It is ubiquitous. They are all incorrect. A “conflict” indicates two equal sides laying credible claim over a disputed issue.
Thus, the false phrase equates Jews with terrorists and terrorist supporters. And, the incorrect saying plays into revisionist history in an antisemitic fashion.
Terrorists and their supporters claim that Israel “stole” “Palestine.” As previously mentioned in earlier emails, “Palestine” was nothing more than a colonizer term for Judea from 136 AD – when Jews liberated Israel in 1948 from British occupiers. And, Jews living in Israel during the aforementioned time period were known as “Palestinians.”
Antisemites believe that Gaza is also “Palestine.” False. Gaza legally under UN Article 80, still belongs to Israel and has been Jewish land historically since 145 BC. Gaza has been occupied by Arab settlers since 1948; Arab settlers mostly from Egypt. Similarly, Judea & Samaria, the ancestral heartland of Israel, is often mislabeled “Palestine” pertaining to some false “homeland” of Arab “Palestinians” – when no such ethnicity or singular group exists.
Gazans are mainly from Egypt, some from Saudi Arabia, and some are former Israeli Arabs who fled voluntarily when Arab armies invaded in 1948. The Israeli-Arabs hail from 25 different Muslim countries. The Arab settlers in Judea & Samaria are mostly Jordanian occupiers; about 30 – 40% of “Arabs” in Judea & Samaria are genetic Jews who were converted to Islam in the 11th century and who live as Arabs.
It was not until 1967 when the KGB launched an antisemitic campaign against Israel called “Operation SIG” which created a false “national liberation” movement and lumped together the various Arab groups that have no common origination points.
If it is not a “conflict,” what is it exactly? It is a war against Jews and has been for well over a century. While there were periods in Israel ‘s history where Jews and Muslims fought off occupiers (Battle of Haifa in 1100 AD against the Crusaders; and both Muslims and Jews joined forces to fight against the Byzantines), but overall, it has been violence from Arabs against Jews with official terrorism stats dating back to 1860.
In the early 1900s, recent Jewish immigrants to Israel established Hashomer, Guild of the Watchman, as a self-defense guardian group to defend the Jewish villages in the Galilee, Judea & in Samaria. Small in numbers, but they helped with defense until the Haganah was established in 1920.
Historian Benny Morris explained, “Anti-Jewish violence became endemic, with Jewish settlement guards – who were seen as symbols of the Zionist enterprise – regularly dying at the hands of Arab ambushers between 1911 and 1913. In April 1914, the British consul in Jerusalem reported, ‘The assaults upon Jews in the outlying districts are increasingly frequent.'” Speaking of the British, it was those occupiers who fomented deadly Arab revolts against Jews in Jaffa (1921), Hebron (1929), Gaza (1936), Jerusalem (1936 – 1939), and numerous smaller acts of violence against Jews throughout the Jewish homeland. The British outlawed Jews to be armed but allowed Arabs to have weapons. And, instead of protecting Jews post-pogroms, the British occupiers expelled Jews from deeply historical Jewish areas such as Hebron and Gaza. Aside from the Arab violence against Jews in Israel, let’s not forget the long list of pogroms against Jews in Muslim lands which spanned centuries. From the Fez Massacre in 1033 to the 1941 Farhud in Iraq; the pogroms in Cairo, Syria, Algeria, Yemen, and Iran, to name but a few.
While everyone is familiar with the pogroms of Europe, Muslim violence against Jews is often ignored outside of Mizrahi Jewish communities, and is only mentioned as a false justification in response to the “Zionism occupation” of a Jewish Zionist homeland.
Meanwhile, the Deir Yassin “massacre” has long been debunked as such even by Arab testimonials and corroborated as not a massacre by military records held currently in the terrorist organization (the PA) run city of Ramallah, Israel. Only combatants were killed during the battle of Deir Yassin.
It is time to be historically honest and not aid in antisemitic falsehoods by equating Jews to terrorists. The war against Jews has been waging far too long; This current war in response to the genocide on October 7th, and Israel ‘s subsequent policies have to be so strong that it ends all terrorism against Jews in their own homeland.
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Professor Milstein has written a very recent definitive book on the Deir Yassin Myth,-amongst all the other “definitive books on that subject”.
But HIS, is the most accurate. and most deeply researched.
Interesting that such a paltry canard should come up now in such great hullaballoo.
Dr. Tauber’s book “THe Massacre that Never Was” is available from Amazon on Kindle. Also in hardcover, but very pricy (37 dollars and change. If I understand the Amazon site correctly, they may have only one hard copy volume in stock.
The publisher is listed as Toby Press. I don’t know anything about this publisher.
@ Sebastien–Dr. Tauber’s book has been published by the Canadian publisher owned by Ted’s friend , and the author of “Tolertism ” and other books, Mr. Rutberg. I can’t remember the name of his publishing house? Ted, can you please remind us? The book is available gtom Amazon. At least it was when I last checked.
@TED. I posted a somewhat long comment on Laura’s article. But it seems to have disappeared. Could you please rescue it from electronic oblivion and post it in this space? Many thanks.
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Absolutely. If not in Katz’s book it was in a couple at least, of other books by survivors and later investigators.
I must have read about 5-6 books which dealt with it either wholly or in a couple of chapters. My recollection is that their bodies showed this.
I believe 50-60% of the Jewish force was killed and injured.
A correction here. The soldiers were not Syrians but Iraqis. They were spotted gong into the village in large numbers of which some, but not many left.( A subterfuge) There were even a few Arab Nazis there too whose documents showed this. It was a heavily fortified and weaponized village meant for battle. There were even women found dead holding guns.
There’s a very interesting but lengthy essay written by a team of researchers fromm Beir Zeit University, detailing hitherto unknow facts and clarifying thos which are garbled.
******That they relied on a truck with a loudspeaker shows that their intent was originally peaceful, desiring the villagers to evacuate. It was they who fired the first shot under a white flag (sheet)
The Irgun-Lehi guys were taken by surprise.******
ED= News to me except for the loudspeaker in the ditch. But the Syrian soldiers dressed as women? What’s your source? I read one of Katz’s books, don’t recall that.
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You neglected to mention that many of the apparent women killed there were actually Syrian soldiers dressed in female garb. That the Jewish leader was hors de Combat , the very first casualty when fired on whilst white sheets of surrender were being waved from the village.
The truck with loudspeaker telling the Inhabitants to evacuate was stuck in a ditch and rendered ineffectual.
The rest is accurate. I’ve read several books on the subject (one by Shmuel Katz) and they agree on these main points I mentioned including a few Arab witness accounts.
All many many years ago. Why is a new book re iterating the same facts needed.
@Vivarto “Deir Yassin, the end of a Myth” essay and book “The Massacre that never was” by Dr. Eliezer Tauber
https://www.scribd.com/document/374184187/Deir-Yassin-The-End-of-a-Myth-By-Dr-Eliezer-Tauber
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From essay: “No Massacre”
“Deir Yassin was not the peaceful village many later claimed it to be, but a fortified village with scores of armed combatants. Its relations with the adjacent Jewish neighborhoods were troubled for decades and the Jews believed it to endanger the only road from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, thus constituting part of the Arab siege of Jewish Jerusalem. Therefore, although later denying it for political reasons, the Jewish main militia in 1948, the Haganah, sanctioned the attack and later took part in it by means of its striking force, the Palmach.
‘A ten-hour fierce battle, in the presence of a civilian population,ended in the victory of Etzel and Lehi. No massacre took place. When The battle ended, the killing stopped.“I believe that most of those who were killed were among the fighter and the women and children who helped the fighters,” one of the Arab Survivors was later to testify. Furthermore, the Arab villagers got an advance warning to evacuate the village, which 700 of them followed.The attackers took additional 200 villagers prisoner and safely released them in Arab Jerusalem. Only 101 Arabs were killed, a quarter of them active combatants and most of the rest was a flight mainly motivated by fears of a massacre that had never happened.
‘…The Creation of the Palestinian Refugee Problem
For psychological warfare considerations, Etzel reported 200 Arabs killed,twice more than the actual number,enthusiastically adopted by the Palestinian leadership in Jerusalem, which increased it to 254 and added rapesand other gender-oriented atrocities.Hussein Khalidi, the senior Arab authority in 1948 Jerusalem, was of the opinion that, “We must make the most of this.” “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.” Khalidi did it in order to prevent a catastrophe
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…but he created one.“Dr Khalidi was the one who caused the catastrophe,” one of the Arab survivors ruled. “Instead of working in our favor, the propaganda worked in favor of the Jews. Whole Villages and towns fled because what they heard had happened in Deir Yassin.” The Palestinian leadership in-tended to exploit the affair to lay pressure on the Arab states to send their armies to Palestine to fight the Jews. It turned to be a boomerang.Following the rule, that woman’s honor comes before land, the moment the Palestinians heard about rapes they started to leave .Israelis and Palestinians believe in two myths about the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem. The Israelis claim that the Palestinians fol-lowed the command of their leaders to evacuate their homes temporarily and then return with the victorious Arabic armies, but that did not happen.The Palestinians claim that the Israelis expelled them in 1948…”
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“… In the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel humiliated two of the Soviet Union’s Arab client states, Egypt and Syria. A couple of months later, the head of Soviet foreign intelligence, Gen. Alexander Sakharovsky, landed in Bucharest. According to him, the Kremlin had charged the KGB to “repair the prestige” of “our Arab friends” by helping them organize terrorist operations that would humiliate Israel. The main KGB asset in this joint venture was a “devoted Marxist-Leninist”–Yasser Arafat, co-founder of Fatah, the Palestinian military force.
‘Gen. Sakharovsky asked us in Romanian intelligence to help the KGB bringing Arafat and some of his fedayeen fighters secretly to the Soviet Union via Romania, in order for them to be indoctrinated and trained. During that same year, the Soviets maneuvered to have Arafat named chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organizaiton, with public help from Egypt’s ruler, Gamal Abdel Nasser….”
“Mr. Pacepa was the highest ranking intelligence officer ever to have defected from the former Soviet bloc. He is author of “Red Horizons” (1987), a memoir.”
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I don’t know how to verify this, but I have read and heard from what I thought were reliable sources that it was the Soviet experts who convinced the Arab “refugees” to label themselves as Palestinians.
A similar strategy they used in Algeria against France.
In Algeria this resulted in the entire French educated class turned against their own country and side with the “poor colonized Algerians”.
As for the Nazi Hajj Amin Husseini, I think his ambitions were much bigger than just being a “Palestinian” leader.
I think he wanted to be the leader of all Muslims. Or at least also Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. And maybe with Hitler’s help also rule over Mecca.
A very good article by Laureen Lipsky’s.
I spotted one important error:
Laureen says: “Only combatants were killed during the battle of Deir Yassin.”
This is not true, most Arabs killed were non-combatant.
Some of them were helping the Arab fighters, most were completely “collateral damage”.
Irgun fighters were throwing grenades into homes and basements where people were hiding, killing Arab fighters and ordinary villagers alike.
In one incident an Arab fighter opened fire from a crowd, and Irgun responded by firing machine gun at the crowd.
However, the accusations of rapes were false. Not a single case of rape was confirmed, and Arab survivors both men and women all denied that there were any rapes.
So yes, we have committed some massacres, not as cruel as the Arabs, but we are not saint either.
No mention of Amin al Husseini. Again, vaguely attributing Palestinian nationalism to a Marxist conspiracy. This really needs a public debunking. Palestinian nationalism is a strictly Muslim invention, one of many that serves to exterminate colonized peoples and erase their history as a matter of Muslim ascendency.
I think the only reason we continue to attribute Palestinian nationalism to a Marxist conspiracy is because of the free ride Muslim countries have been by given by the USSR. They played the USSR very handily, much like they play the rest of the West. The only fallout is the occasionally secular character assumed by many self identifying Palestinians, Abbas for example.
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