ill give a counter sample of perpetrators getting more respect for their version  the noted Muhammad alDurrah incident perpetrated by Talal Abu Rachmeh   i used many refrences besides the etzel for the israelis statement  here are a few of them  dir yasin on hebrew wiki  the battle that traspired in the village  the battle described on hebrew wiki  some info about diwhere attacks started and locations and equipment used  before the start of the battle the etzel and lehi gave up on the surprize element and notified the villagers about the intended attack so that women and children will have enough time to escape from the village by that the forces tried to prevent an injury to residents of the village  The battle started before the intended time because the Etzel forces location was revealed by the village guards  despite the purpouse of the operation was to capture the village and evict the population eg since israel claim it was being used to attack convoys and it was a stratecig location to break the seige on jerusalem matters turned into a battle in which many of the villagers were killed including women and children  Ezra Yakhin elkanam of the Lehi who participated in the fighting says at the beggining of the battle the women of the village joined the men who were also masking themselves as women which gave a difficulty at seperating the fighting population with those who are not fighters more from that page  current researches no longer raise the allegations of abuse rape or blowing up houses with the residents inside   this i only now found  historion writes serious book about it with documentation hes israeli no   Daat encyclopedia  on  deir yassin people started sniping at the jewish neighbourhoods at BeitHakerem and YafehNof unlike the residents testimony maybe they were perpetrators also  testimonials of the Haganda information tell of fortifications built at the village and of a lot of weapons storaging  several days before the attack information was telling of presence of foreign fighters at the village among them Iraqi soldiers and gang men  this article also mentions the beir zeit university and stated that the universitys own research says that the bir zeit univ report tells that the men at deir yassin took an active part in the violence against jewish targets and that many of the villagers particiapted at the battle of the kastel  alongside abdalkader alhusseini  i think we should find the original bir zeit research to check this one  this article has so much information that its too much to translate but theres definately validity even if its the israeli pov to its report    another heavily detailed link now im going no reverting back yet  but i think the reversion was somewhat out of order