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| | Historian Uri Milstein Debunks the Myths of Deir Yassin |
 | | A circular distributed to senior Hagana personnel on April 18, 1948, stated, “The first wounded and dead among the dissidents, caused confusion in their ranks. |
 | | True, one of their leaders, Yisra’el Galili, was named head of the Hagana’s national command, but that had been a personal appointment, not a political one. |
 | | On April 12, Hagana posters were hung all over Jerusalem and Al Hamishmar ran an article comparing Deir-Yassin with the Palmach’s conquest of Kolonia on April 10, presenting the former as an “atrocity committed by a degenerate clique... |
| www.hirhome.com /israel/milstein-deir-yassin.htm (7474 words) |
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