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	Kfar Etzion massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Kfar Etzion massacre was an atrocity committed by Arab armed forces on May 13, 1948, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel.
		Kfar Etzion was a religious kibbutz founded in 1943, about 2km east of the road between Jerusalem and Hebron.
		Kfar Etzion was re-established as a kibbutz in September 1967, as the first Israeli settlement in the West Bank after the war.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/kfar_etzion_massacre (1084 words)

	Kfar Etzion massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kfar Etzion was a religious kibbutz founded in 1943, about 2 km east of the road between Jerusalem and Hebron.
		The Israeli histories of the Kfar Etzion massacre (such as Levi, 1986, Isseroff, 2005) note that the defenders had put out the white flag and lined up to surrender in front of the school building of the German monastery.
		Fearing that the defenders might suffer the same fate as those of Kfar Etzion, Zionist leaders in Jerusalem negotiated a deal for the surrender of the settlements on condition that the Arab Legion protected the residents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kfar_Etzion_massacre (1217 words)

	Gush Etzion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gush Etzion is a group of Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
		The history of the settlements is split into two distinct periods as a result of the destruction by Arab armed forces of the original communities: Kfar Etzion, Maasuot Yitzchak, Ein Tzurim and Revadim during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
		Many of the returnees to Kfar Etzion were children of members of the original settlements.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gush_Etzion (156 words)

	Kfar Etzion massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Kfar Etzion was a religious kibbutz founded in 1943, about 2km east of the roadbetween Jerusalem and Hebron.
		Only three of the remaining Kfar Etzion residents and one Palmach member survived.According to their own testimony, the circumstances of their survival were as follows.
		Kfar Etzion was re-established as a kibbutz inSeptember 1967, as the first Israeli settlement in the West Bank after the war.
	www.therfcc.org /kfar-etzion-massacre-307055.html (978 words)

	gush etzion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gush Etzion is a group of Israeli communities first established between 1943 and 1947 located halfway between Jerusalem and Hebron.
		The history of the communities is split into two distinct periods as a result of the destruction by Arab armed forces of the original communities: Kfar Etzion, Maasuot Yitzchak, Ein Tzurim and Revadim during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
		Many of the returnees to Kfar Etzion were children of communities members massacred in 1948.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /gush_etzion.html (171 words)

	History of Kfar Etzion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The isolation of Kfar Etzion was relieved in October, 1945 with the establishment of another Jewish settlement in the area, Kibbutz Massuot Yitzchak.
		The Etzion Bloc in the autumn of 1947 was composed of four Jewish settlements in various stages of development.
		He was one of the children of Kfar Etzion who had been evacuated in 1948 and fell in the heroic battle on Ammunition Hill in 1967.
	www.kfar-etzion.co.il /English_history_KE.htm (6855 words)

	Kfar Etzion massacre -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Kfar Etzion massacre was an atrocity committed by Arab armed forces on May 13, 1948, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of (Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine) Israel.
		There is no doubt that the Legion led the attack on Kfar Etzion (probably on the explicit orders of (Click link for more info and facts about Glubb Pasha) Glubb Pasha), and at least a few Legionnaires were present when the massacre began.
		The site of the Etzion Bloc was captured by Israel during the (Click link for more info and facts about 1967 war) 1967 war.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/kf/kfar_etzion_massacre.htm (1074 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kfar Etzion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Kfar Etzion is a kibbutz located in the Judean Hills between Jerusalem and Hebron.
		Originally settled as Migdal Eder in 1927 by Yemenite immigrants, it was abandoned in 1929 as a result of Arab riots in the area.
		In 1943 Kfar Etzion was settled for the third time as part of the Etzion Bloc.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kfar-Etzion (408 words)

	Gush Etzion Massacre - 1948
		The four kibbutzim (communal settlements) of Gush Etzion are associated with several a sad and gloroious chapter in the history of modern Israel, and with a massacre carried out by Arab Palestinians.
		Kfar Etzion was re-founded in the Spring of 1943.
		The Etzion bloc was looted thoroughly by Arab villagers and irregular troops.
	www.zionism-israel.com /Gush_Etzion_Massacre.htm (2637 words)

	www.IsraeliWestBank.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At Kfar Etzion, one of four kibbutzim in the area, the captured Jews were gathered together by soldiers of the Arab Legion and told they were going to be photographed.
		Nestling in the Judean Hills, the Etzion Bloc is situated on the ancient mountain route midway between Jerusalem - the city of David, and Hebron - the city of the Patriarchs.
		Summer 1946 The isolation of Kfar Etzion was relieved in October, 1945 with the establishment of another Jewish settlement in the area, Kibbutz Massuot Yitzchak.
	www.israeliwestbank.com /kfaretzion.htm (7064 words)

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		The beginning of the hill that was originally settled by Kfar Etzion in 1943 was a German Monastery as well as a farm that was established in the 1930's by a group of Benedictine Monks, members of the Dormition Abbey on Mt. Zion in Jerusalem.
		To this spot and specifically to the bunker underneath the building (which was used by the monks for cold storage) were brought the wounded in the last stages of the battle on the eve of the declaration of independence.
		To this spot, the area between the monastery and the children's houses, the surrendered Kfar Etzion defenders, were gathered on May 14, 1948 from their positions after desperately brave fighting.
	www.kfar-etzion.co.il /German_Monastery_Eng.htm (786 words)

	ei: The Case for Israel, a Critical Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Dershowitz argues the Kfar Etzion massacre was representative of "a general Arab policy" of massacring all Jews, combatants and non-combatants alike.
		The Kfar Etzion massacre was a reprehensible atrocity; that being said, it was not Arab policy to massacre all Jews anymore than it was Jewish policy to massacre all Arabs.
		Kfar Etzion was the only massacre of Jews in which regular Arab troops took part, despite many more opportunities the Arab Legion had to butcher with impunity.
	electronicintifada.net /v2/article3927.shtml (7302 words)

	GUSH ETZION (ETZION BLOC)
		It comprises Kfar Etzion, Migdal Oz and Rosh Zurim (which breed turkeys, produce candles and metal parts, and grow carnations), Moshav Elazar and the rural centre of Alon Shvut with its Har Etzion Yeshiva and apartments for young people who live here but work in Jerusalem and other nearby places.
		Those who survived the 1948 massacre founded Kibbutz Nir Etzion near Haifa, Kibbutz Ein Tzurim in the south, Beerot Yitzhak and a new Massuot Yitzhak in the heart of the country.
		A new town named Efrat is located on the eastern side of the Etzion Bloc across the main road, and further east, in the Judaean Desert, are the settlements of Tekoa and Ma'ale Amos.
	www.travelnet.co.il /israel/Jerusalem/jeru02-GUSH_ETZION.htm (450 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kfar Etzion massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
		Etzion Bloc stamp This image of a postage stamp may be copyrighted and/or have other restrictions on its reproduction imposed by the issuing authority.
		Isseroff Kfar Etzion Rememmbered: A history of Gush Etzion and the Massacre of Kfar Etzion, 2005.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kfar-Etzion-massacre (1693 words)

	Gush Etzion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Gush Etzion is a group of Israeli communities first establishedbetween 1943 and 1947 located halfway between Jerusalem and Hebron.
		The history of the communities issplit into two distinct periods as a result of the destruction by Arab armed forces of theoriginal communities: Kfar Etzion, Maasuot Yitzchak, Ein Tzurim and Revadim during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
		Many of the returnees to Kfar Etzion were children of communitiesmembers massacred in 1948.
	www.therfcc.org /gush-etzion-148161.html (123 words)

	Dov Knohl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Upon returning to Kfar Etzion, he contributed to the development of the Kibbutz and to its defense.
		He thus escaped the massacre of the defenders of Kfar Etzion.
		These efforts kept the memory of the Etzion Bloc alive and proved to be instrumental in the eventual refounding of Kibbutz Kfar Etzion upon its liberation in 1967.
	www.nevnet.etzion.k12.il /knohl.htm (313 words)

	Massacre de Kfar Etzion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		El massacre de Kfar Etzion era un atrocity confiado por las fuerzas armadas arab de mayo el 13 de 1948, el día antes del declaración de la independencia del estado de Israel.
		Kfar Etzion era un kibbutz religioso fundado en 1943, los cerca de 2km al este del camino entre Jerusalén y Hebron.
		Kfar Etzion fue reestablecido como kibbutz en septiembre de 1967, como el primer establecimiento israelí en el banco del oeste después de la guerra.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ma/Massacre%20de%20Kfar%20Etzion.htm (1065 words)

	Articles - Kfar Etzion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Kfar Etzion (×›×¤×¨ ×¢×¦×™×•×Ÿ) is an Israeli kibbutz located in the Judean Hills between Jerusalem and Hebron.
		It was resettled in 1934, but had to be abandoned again in 1939 as a result of violence then.
		After the 1967 Six-Day War, previous residents of Kfar Etzion moved back and built new houses in the former community.
	www.poncier.com /articles/Kfar_Etzion (272 words)

	Kfar Etzion massacre - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Kfar Etzion massacre - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The main group of about 50 defenders were surrounded by a large number of Arab irregulars, who shouted "Deir Yassin!
		Kfar Etzion massacre, Background, The Massacre, The aftermath and Sources.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Kfar_Etzion_massacre (1068 words)

	Kfar Etzion massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Kfar Etzion massacre was an atrocity committed by Arab armed forces on May 13, 1948, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of
		1947 placed the Etzion Bloc in the interior of the intended Arab state.
		Arab Legion was theoretically in Palestine under British command, they began to operate more and more independently.
	en.efactory.pl /Kfar_Etzion_massacre (1012 words)

	The Battle For Gush Etzion
		The target of attack from the beginning of the campaign, they were reinforced by Haganah and Palmah combatants.
		In the massacre of Kfar Etzion, the Arabs murdered 127 men and women.
		For half a year the battles of the four Etzion Bloc kibbutzim on JNF land, 20 kilometers from Jerusalem, preoccupied large Arab forces from all over the Hebron Mountains - forces that consequently were unable to turn their attention to Jerusalem and join the battles against the city's Jews.
	www.usisrael.com /jsource/History/gush.html (313 words)

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		Irgun leader Menachem Begin stated that after the massacre Arabs throughout Palestine "started to flee for their lives....Of the about 800,000 Arabs who lived on the present territory of the State of Israel, only some 165,000 are still living there.
		Of the 152 yishuv soldiers and settlers in Kfar Etzion when the battle began, about ninety-six died in the battle, some fifty-two were massacred after it, and four survived - the female soldier and three settlers.
		It was one of the worst military defeats and one of the worst massacres the yishuv suffered in the war.
	www.al-bushra.org /America/ch9.html (9139 words)

	Israel did not cause the Palestinian Arabs to leave
		Propagandists promised a blood bath as soon as the mandate ended in which the street of all the cities would run with blood.
		The promised invasion by the foreign Arab armies (which started on May 14, 1948, with the Arab Legion massacre of some 200 Jewish settlers at Kfar Etzion) was preceded by extensive broadcasts from Cairo, Damascus, Amman, and Beirut to the effect that any Arabs who stayed would be hanged as collaborators with the Jews.
		The massacre of Kfar Etzion, the massacre of the hospital convoy killed 48 Jewish doctors and nurses, the continued shelling and blasting of Jewish settlement for more than 20 years, has not caused one single Israeli to move away.
	holyland-isreal.tripod.com /pal-refugees.htm (1299 words)

	Chorro Etzion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		El chorro Etzion es un grupo de comunidades israelíes primero establecidas entre 1943 y 1947 situados hasta la mitad entre Jerusalén y Hebron.
		Restablecieron a las comunidades después de la guerra del Seis-Di'a, comenzando con Kfar Etzion en septiembre de 1967.
		Muchos de los returnees a Kfar Etzion eran niños de los miembros de las Comunidades massacred en 1948.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ch/Chorro%20Etzion.htm (140 words)

	Deir Yassin - Red Cross Report
		This affair, which had great repercussions here and, I believe, throughout the world has a good side for the ICRC: we have proven that in Palestine we enjoy equal confidence and authority from the two sides of the line of fire and that even the Irgun was not inaccessible to us.
		A large number of Arab forces succeeded in trapping the survivors of the attack, many of whom were wounded.
		The Red Cross later helped to safely evacuate the remaining defenders of the Etzion block after the massacre in Kfar Etzion,, and also in evacuating Jews from the Old City of Jerusalem.
	www.ariga.com /peacewatch/dy/redcross.htm (2937 words)

	DEIR YASSIN
		The 1929 slaughter of the Jews of Hebron by Arabs in the middle of the night was a massacre.
		The brutal murder of settlers at Kfar Etzion by Arab Legion soldiers in May 1948, after the defenders had surrendered and were defenceless, was also a massacre.
		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:
	www.etzel.org.il /english/ac17.htm (2686 words)

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