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	Encyclopedia: Deir Yassin massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Deir Yassin events began with an attack on April 9, 1948, in which several Jewish armed factions seized and occupied the Arab town of Deir Yassin, simultaneous with Jewish attempts to break the siege of western Jerusalem, although the levels of provocation, military necessity and authority justifying the action remain controversial.
		Deir Yassin was different from al-Qastel that had recently been attacked by the Haganah, in that it did not participate directly in the conflict.
		Deir Yassin was a staging area for the villagers and regular army from various Arab armies.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Deir-Yassin-massacre (416 words)

	Deir Yassin: History of the Massacre
		Deir Yassin had a peaceful reputation and was even said by a Jewish newspaper to have driven out some Arab militants.
		As Jerusalem expanded, the land of Deir Yassin became part of the city and is now known simply as the area between Givat Shaul and the settlement of Har Nof on the western slopes of the mountain.
		The massacre of Palestinians at Deir Yassin is one of the most significant events in 20th-century Palestinian and Israeli history.
	www.deiryassin.org /mas.html (815 words)

	The Peace Encyclopedia: Deir Yassin
		For fifty years, critics of Israel have used the battle of Deir Yassin to flen the image of the Jewish State, alleging that Jewish fighters massacred hundreds of Arab civilians during a battle in that Arab village near Jerusalem in 1948.
		On Friday night, April 2, gunfire from the Deir Yassin area raked the adjacent Jewish neighborhoods of Beit Hakerem and Bayit Vegan.21 On Sunday, April 4, commander Shaltiel received an urgent message from the intelligence officer of the Haganah's Etzioni division: "There's a gathering in Deir Yassin.
		The first of the Jewish fighting units to reach Deir Yassin was led by a truck armed with a loudspeaker.
	www.yahoodi.com /peace/deiryassin.html (4858 words)

	DEIR YASSIN
		Secondly, an unprecedented action took place at Deir Yassin - a loudspeaker was installed on an armored car to inform the population that the road to Ein Karem was open and safe, and that whoever left the village would not be harmed.
		The Deir Yassin affair had a strong impact on the course of the War of Independence; the battle was summed up as follows in the "History of the War of Independence", prepared by the History Division of the IDF General Staff:
		In an arlicle "Deir Yassin a casualty of guns and propaganda", by Paul Holmes (Reuters) (http://www.metimes.com/issue98-16/reg/deir.html) he interviewing Mohammed Radwan, who was a resident of Deir Yassi in 1948, and fought for several hours before ruing out of bullets.
	www.etzel.org.il /english/ac17.htm (2686 words)

	Deir Yassin
		Deir Yassin was situated on a hill, about 2600 feet high, which commanded a wide view of the vicinity and was located less than a mile from the suburbs of Jerusalem.
		The Irgun decided to attack Deir Yassin on April 9, while the Haganah was still engaged in the battle for Kastel.
		References to Deir Yassin have remained a staple of anti-Israel propaganda for decades because the incident was unique.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/deir_yassin.html (1627 words)

	Arutz Sheva - Israel National News
		Deir Yassin is the ultimate "Man Bites Dog" news story supposedly based on the inversion of players.
		Deir Yassin was a not-at-all innocent Arab village sitting near the only road into Jerusalem in 1948.
		His claims about Deir Yassin were the basis for an article in the New York Times claiming a massacre took place -- an article that has been widely reprinted and cited as "proof" of the massacre throughout the past 57 years.
	www.israelnationalnews.com /article.php3?id=5016 (1121 words)

	Deir Yassin Remembered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Deir Yassin is as important a part of Jewish as it is of Palestinian history.
		Deir Yassin also signalled the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians leading to their eventual dispossession and exile and was just one example of a conscious and premeditated plan to destroy the Palestinians as a people in their own homeland.
		Deir Yassin is surely about peace and reconciliation, but the peace cannot be the peace and quiet for the victor to go on robbing the victims, and the reconciliation cannot be the reconciliation of the victims reconciling themselves with their victim-hood.
	www.jfjfp.org /backgroundX/backgroundX_eisen.htm (1544 words)

	The Historian: THE 1948 MASSACRE AT DEIR YASSIN REVISITED. @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Historian: THE 1948 MASSACRE AT DEIR YASSIN REVISITED.
		The Deir Yassin incident, therefore, is intimately connected to the two main issues that have defined the Arab-Israeli conflict: the armed hostility to Israel by the Arab states and the enduring Palestinian refugee issue.
		Published reconstructions of Deir Yassin appear to derive their eyewitness-based accounts of demolished houses ultimately from guerrilla participant recollections made after the event had become notorious, and that are likely designed to explain away villager deaths as combat accidents rather than deliberate massacre.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:72435149&refid=holomed_1 (8132 words)

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		Deir Yassin, located in an orthodox Jewish neighborhood in West Jerusalem, is in the shadow of the famous Holocaust memorial at Yad Vashem.
		We are jointly planning the April 9, 1997, conference to commemorate the anniversary of the Deir Yassin massacre.
		Hind Husseini as an orphanage for surviving children of Deir Yassin; Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s "national poet;" and a representative of the Survivors of Deir Yassin.
	www.ameu.org /page.asp?iid=96&aid=348&pg=1 (640 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Remembering Deir Yassin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fifty years after Deir Yassin, and in the midst of a dying peace process, the Zionists of America are denying historic facts so as to continue to deny justice to the Palestinians, writes James Zoghby*
		As modern Israeli historians now acknowledge (and as Arabs have always known), Deir Yassin was but one piece of a concentrated Zionist strategy to terrorize Arabs in order to expel them on the way to depopulating their villages in order to either repopulate them with new Jewish immigrants or to erase them from the map.
		"Deir Yassin Remembered" is a new organization dedicated to preserving the memory of that outrage by publishing materials, both documentary and commentary, and by constructing a monument to the massacre in the place where the village of Deir Yassin once stood.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1998/1948/373_zgby.htm (1253 words)

	Deir Yassin Massacre - Introduction
		Further commentary about Deir Yassin and the abuse of history in the conflict is here - Deir Yassin: The History of the Conflict as Mass Psychosis.
		The Deir Yassin Massacre was not the beginning of massacres in Palestine, nor did the Jews begin the massacres.
		I have equally been reviled by anti-Zionists for not concluding that all of Israeli Jews are war criminals or worse, and that Deir Yassin is representative of all of the glorious history of the return of the Jews to Israel.
	ariga.com /peacewatch/dy (1869 words)

	Deir Yassin - The Evidence
		Deir Yassin was a village near the entrance to Jerusalem, north west of Givat Shaul.
		Shaltiel's letter also indicates that the Irgun/Lehi attack on Deir Yassin, and consequent t expulsion of the population were not part of Haganah policy or "Plan D." Plan D was prepared by the Haganah in March of 1948, because of the deteriorating situation in the Jerusalem corridor.
		Clearly, Deir Yassin was to be taken and held, according to the Hagannah in the same way as the friendly village of Abu Ghosh was made part of Israel, without expelling anyone and without hurting civilians.
	www.ariga.com /peacewatch/dy/dycg.htm (8087 words)

	deiryassin
		A village of some 700 Palestinian Arabs, named Deir Yassin, located on the outskirts of Jerusalem, was attacked by the Hagannah, the official Jewish army, and Jewish irregulars, bearing the names of the Irgun and Lehi.
		What happened at Deir Yassin is well known, and though the exact numbers of dead are disputed (from 100 -250 are claimed), the essential details are confirmed by Palestinian and Jewish historians alike: a massacre of Arab non-combatants occurred carried out by the Irgun and Lehi.
		For Jews to remember Deir Yassin is a tribute to our martyrs and the martyrs of all peoples: that their lives will not be lost to history and that the reconciliation of histories, broken by atrocity and war, will one day be healed.
	www.flashpoints.net /deir.htm (904 words)

	American Arab Anti Discrimination Committee
		The theme of this year's Deir Yassin campaign is "Deir Yassin: The Search for Justice." ADC has created a Deir Yassin Fact Sheet for use in all events and general distribution, which is available in a formatted PDF file on our website at and is reproduced in plain text below.
		Deir Yassin, a peaceful village of some 750 Palestinian residents, was outside the area which was assigned by the UN for a Jewish state.
		The massacre at Deir Yassin is a testament to the well-planned and systematic depopulation of Palestine and the dispossession of the Palestinian people.
	www.adc.org /action/2000/5april2000.htm (702 words)

	Events at Dir Yassin
		Dir Yassin was certainly not a massacre of a peaceful village, but rather was an Arab-Jewish battle with unfortunate civilian casualties.
		On the night of April 9, 1948, the peaceful Arab village of Deir Yassin was surprised by a loudspeaker, which called on the population to evacuate it immediately.
		Dir Yassin was a reasonable military target for Jewish forces, there was warning given before the battle, a fierce battle was fought with casualties on both sides.
	www.palestinefacts.org /pf_independence_war_diryassin.php (1183 words)

	April is the Cruelest of Months, Israel Shamir
		Its apotheosis was reached near the entrance to Jerusalem, where the Sacharov gardens lead to a cemetery, to a lunatic asylum and to Deir Yassin.
		The ZOA revisionists have utilized all the methods of their adversaries, the 'Holocaust deniers': they discount the eye-witness accounts of the survivors, the Red Cross, the British police, Jewish scouts and other Jewish observers, who were present at the scene of massacre.
		It will have to do, until the surviving sons of Deir Yassin and neighboring villages return from their refugee camps to the land of their fathers.
	home.mindspring.com /~fontenelles/shamir7.htm (1650 words)

	The 'Deir Yassin' MYTH
		Deir Yassin was a heavily-armed nest of terrorists who in 1947-1948 had been attacking nearby Jewish neighborhoods and traffic on the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway.
		Mordechai Ra'anan, leader of the Jewish soldiers who fought in Deir Yassin invented the number '254' as a deliberate exaggeration in order to undermine the morale of the Arab forces and no body count was conducted to tally the dead.
		Deir Yassin resident Abu Mahmoud recalls: "We gathered in Jerusalem at the Hebron Gate.
	www.geocities.com /palestiniansarelies/DeirYassinMyth.html (2558 words)

	Zionist Organization of America - March 25, 1998 - Prominent Columnist: Arabs Fabricated Claim that Jews Massacred ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is one of the great hoaxes of the 20th century, comparable to the libel that Jews drank Christian blood...The fight for Deir Yassin was part of the war and a necessary battle for Jewish survival.
		It was Khalidi's claims about Jewish atrocities in Deir Yassin that were the basis for an article in the New York Times by its correspondent, Dana Schmidt (on April 12, 1948), claiming a massacre took place.
		Nusseibeh, who is a member of one of Jerusalem's most prominent Arab families and presently lives in Amman, told the BBC that the fabricated atrocity stories about Deir Yassin were "our biggest mistake," because "Palestinians fled in terror" and left the country in huge numbers after hearing the atrocity claims.
	www.zoa.org /pressrel/19980325a.htm (639 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Lying about Deir Yassin by Steven Plaut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In recent years, Deir Yassin has been converted into a bludgeon by the Far Left, the Neonazi Right, and Israel-bashers in general.
		His claims about Deir Yassin were the basis for an article in the New York Times claiming a massacre took place--an article that has been widely reprinted and cited as "proof" of the massacre throughout the past 57 years.
		Meanwhile, what has fanned the flames of Deir Yassin has been the United Nations decision to confine more than three million Palestinian Arabs to refugee camps, promising them the "right of return" to Arab villages that no longer exist.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17659 (1105 words)

	DierYassin
		The Jewish "massacre" of Arabs in the town of Deir Yassin in 1948 "one of the great hoaxes of the 20th century." There have been others but this is one that anti-Zionist propagandists love to repeat.
		Deir Yassin has ever since been the rallying call for the Arabs and the enemies of Israel and of the Jewish people.
		Official Israeli government statements about Deir Yassin, in 1960 and 1969 (under Foreign Ministers Golda Meir and Abba Eban), formally rebuked the Labor Zionist officials who had made the false massacre accusation in 1948, and officially declared that there was no basis for the "massacre" charge.
	pnews.org /ArT/ZioN/DierYassin.shtml (1623 words)

	MIFTAH.ORG--Remembering Deir Yassin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		On April 9 Palestinians will celebrate Deir Yassin Day to commemorate the fifty-seventh anniversary of the massacre of 254 innocent Palestinian residents of the Deir Yassin village, which is now left in ruins outside Jerusalem.
		The remaining survivors of Deir Yassin were dumped outside the walls of the Old City in Arab east Jerusalem.
		Deir Yassin Day is an occasion for the international community to come together in solidarity and not only remember the victims, but also to work to put an end to the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinians.
	www.miftah.org /PrinterF.cfm?DocId=7131 (428 words)

	Jules Rabin: Remembering Deir Yassin
		While the original Deir Yassin event took place a long time ago, it is a tragic fact of our time that miniature and piecemeal Deir Yassins are now occurring daily throughout the Palestinian territories...
		The piecemeal Deir Yassins of the present time burst out unexpectedly in any of the hundreds of Palestinian hamlets, villages, and towns that Israeli tanks and troops choose to make their current objective.
		Deir Yassin was a large human tragedy and it belongs to the whole world, just as the Holocaust belongs to the whole world.
	www.counterpunch.org /rabin04072003.html (1281 words)

	Terrorism Began at Deir Yassin : LA IMC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The peaceful village of Deir Yassin, which layed on the western outskirts of Jerusalem, was situated inside the area that the United Nations had designated for the future Palestinian state.
		It is hoped that in honoring the Palestinian victims of Deir Yassin, just as we honor the Jewish victims of the holocaust, that we, the people of the world can move on and make this world one where truth and justice is the rule.
		All modern day terrorism is the result of the terrorism that was perpetrated against the Palestinian people at Deir Yassin and other small villages, by the fascist Zionists, in order to help in the birth of their beloved Israel, a birth that was saturated with the blood of hundreds of innocent Palestinian's.
	la.indymedia.org /news/2004/09/116595.php (1253 words)

	Amazon.com: Remembering Deir Yassin: The Future of Israel and Palestine: Books: Daniel McGowan,Marc Ellis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Deir Yassin massacre is a bitter symbol of a long history of terror and repression, to which to our shame we have contributed in many substantial ways, and still do.
		This is nothing short then the history of a fabrication, which is to say the history of the Deir Yassin 'massacre' in which less then 100 Jordanian-arabs were killed in battle with the Haganah in 1948, all of those killed were combatants, killed with weapons in their hands or close by.
		The story of the massacre at Deir Yassin lives in infamy, but its history is quickly becoming forgotten as urban development now covers the site...
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1566562910?v=glance (843 words)

	Palestine Center - Deir Yassin's Significance to Palestinians and Jews
		The goal of Deir Yassin Remembered, explained London-based Director Paul Eisen at an 18 September 2001 Center presentation, is to build a memorial to the Palestinian victims of the 9 April 1948 massacre in Deir Yassin village.
		As for the importance of a Deir Yassin memorial to Jews, Eisen referred to the growing fears within the Jewish community that their culture is “falling away” through assimilation.
		This presents Deir Yassin Remembered with “enormous opportunities and enormous dangers.” Palestinians and Jews may both be uncomfortable with this overlap.
	www.palestinecenter.org /cpap/pubs/20010926ftr.html (942 words)

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