UN General Assembly
1949

26. It had been stated that the Arabs of Palestine had left their homes of their own choice or that the Arab States had caused the exodus. Nothing could be further from the truth, The fact was that a reign, of terror had been inflicted upon the Arabs when acts of complete annihilation of masses of Arabs, including women and children, had been committed by the Jews, That truth had been well described in a statement by the Stern Gang leader, reported in the Washington, D. C., Star of 9 August 1948, according to which it was universally recognized that it had been the Deir Yasin attack that had struck terror into the hearts of the Arab masses and caused their stampede. The statement went on to speak of the attack as a “blessed miracle”, which had dealt the enemy a far greater blow than all the combined wisdom of the Hagana commanders could have done.