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Titolo: vittime nel 1948

The Jerusalem Post, Aug. 17, 2007
Guest Columnist: Ethnic cleansing in Palestine?
by Seth Frantzman
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As negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority aimed at
creating a Palestinian state willing to live side-by-side with Israel
in peace resume, one of the major sticking points continues to be the
Arab refugee issue. Bitter arguments among politicians and scholars
continue to surround the creation of the refugee problem during
Israel's War of Independence in 1948.
It has become fashionable in recent decades to frame the 1948 war as
one in which the Arabs were victims of Zionist aggression. Anti-
Zionist scholars such as Noam Chomsky, Rashid Khalidi and Ilan Pappe
have presented the war as if the only important events were Deir
Yassin and the flight or expulsion of Arabs from Haifa, Acre,
Tiberias, west Jerusalem, Jaffa and numerous villages.
IN THIS context, Ilan Pappe's work deserves special attention. He was
born to a German Jewish family in Haifa in 1954. The former senior
lecturer in the University of Haifa's Department of Political Science
recently announced he was moving to the UK because it had become
"increasingly difficult to live in Israel" with his "unwelcome views
and convictions."
These views are those of the "new historians" - leftist scholars who
in the 1980s began to reinterpret Israeli and Palestinian history. He
is the author of six works on the history of the Israeli-Arab conflict
and the Middle East. In his recently released book The Ethnic
Cleansing of Palestine, Pappe claims that Israel prepared a special
plan for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine's Arab population known as
Plan D for dalet. Pappe's "evidence" is derived from his
interpretations of files found in the Hagana and Israel state
archives.
One of his most damning pieces of evidence is the village surveys
carried out by the Hagana's intelligence units. These surveys go into
minute detail about many Arab villages, including the number of armed
men, the mukhtar and any anti-Jewish activity in the village. Pappe
lends further evidence to his thesis by showing that Jewish forces,
whether Hagana, Irgun or Lehi, attacked Arab villages even before the
declaration of the state on May 15, 1948.
But Pappe makes one egregious mistake. He never bothers to ask the
same question of the Arabs he does of the Jews: What about their
lists, their intelligence reports and their ethnic-cleansing plans?
What were Arab intentions in the five months between the passage of
the UN partition plan on November 29, 1947, and the birth of Israel?
THE ARCHIVES of The Palestine Post, now The Jerusalem Post and then
the newspaper of record of Mandatory Palestine, provide some of the
answers and tell a very different story from the one presented by
Pappe.
Sixty-two Jews were murdered by Arabs in the first week after the UN
partition plan was passed, and by May 15, 1948, a total of 1,256 Jews
had been killed, most of them civilians. These deaths were caused by
Arab militias, gangs, terrorists and army units which attacked every
place of Jewish inhabitation in Palestine.
The attacks succeeded in placing Jerusalem under siege and eventually
cutting off its water supply. All Jewish villages in the Negev were
attacked, and Jews had to go about the country in convoys. In every
major city where Jews and Arabs lived in mixed neighborhoods the
Jewish areas came under attack. This was true in Haifa's Hadar
Hacarmel as well as Jerusalem's Old City.
Massacres were not uncommon.
THIRTY-NINE Jews were killed by Arab rioters at Haifa's oil refinery
on December 30, 1947. On January 16, 1948, 35 Jews were killed trying
to reach Gush Etzion. On February 22, 44 Jews were murdered in a
bombing on Jerusalem's Rehov Ben-Yehuda. And on February 29, 23 Jews
were killed all across Palestine, eight of them at the Hayotzek iron
foundry.
Thirty-five Jews were murdered during the Mount Scopus convoy massacre
on April 13. And 127 Jews were massacred at Kfar Etzion on May 15,
1948, after 30 others had died defending the Etzion Bloc.
IN ARAB countries more than 100 Jews were also massacred and
synagogues were burned in Aleppo and Aden, driving thousands of Jews
from their homes.
Back in Palestine many small kibbutzim were subjected to attacks,
including Gvulot, Ben-Shemen, Holon, Safed, Bat Yam and Kfar Yavetz -
all in December. In January and February, it was the turn of Rishon
Lezion, Yehiam, Mishmar Hayarden, Tirat Zvi, Sde Eliahu, Ein Hanatziv,
Magdiel, Mitzpe Hagalil and Ma'anit.
In March and April these attacks culminated with an assault on Hartuv
by 400 Arabs based in the village of Ishwa and an attack on Kfar Darom
by members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Arab attackers also bombed The Palestine Post in February. In March,
the Jewish Agency, the Solel Boneh building in Haifa and an Egged bus
were also bombed.
SOME OF today's scholars prefer to present every massacre of Jews as a
"response" to some Jewish deed, and to portray as a "myth" the very
idea that Israel struggled desperately for existence in 1948.
But it was no myth.
The fact is 1,256 Jews were killed in five months. Even before the
first Arab villages were captured in April, 924 Jews had already been
killed. Ilan Pappe should have pondered what might have been if those
Jews had not been slaughtered.
What if attacks and riots had not been the first Arab reaction to the
partition plan?
Plan Dalet was a plan, it was one of many plans. The lists compiled by
the Hagana had been cobbled together for a decade before 1948, but
they were not blueprints - merely intelligence assessments. The
British also kept lists of everything; they knew about weapons in
various kibbutzim, about the Hagana and illegal Jewish immigration to
Palestine. Those lists weren't blueprints for ethnic cleansing anymore
than were the Hagana files on Arab villages.
When a Jewish area was overrun - and some were - the homes were looted
or destroyed and any survivors were killed, as at Kfar Etzion (only
three of the defenders survived the massacre).
The potential for the ethnic cleansing of Jewish Palestine was never
realized because of the discipline, determination and sheer luck of
the Yishuv.
If the Arabs had not carried out across the board attacks throughout
the Yishuv between 1947 and 1948, perhaps the nature of the subsequent
Jewish victory would have been different. As it was, the ceaseless
attacks against all isolated Jewish settlements only gave Zionist
commanders every reason to see neighboring Arab villages as
threatening and to act accordingly.
Scholarship - including that of the "new historians" - on the 1948 war
will remain incomplete until methodical studies are carried out about
widespread and often well-planned Arab assaults on the Yishuv.
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The writer is in the doctoral program at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem. His master's thesis was on the 1948 war.


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Chi pensa che la terra dove abita da secoli stia per diventare colonia
degli adepti di un movimento politico europeo che intende snaturarne le
caratteristiche socio-culturali dominarla in maniera esclusiva,
generalmente si ribella con i mezzi che ha a disposizione: questa si
chiama resistenza ancora adesso.
Chi decide di farsi una patria in una terra abitata da altri, perchč
questi sono in un periodo di debolezza economica, sociale e culturale usa
tutti i mezzi per farlo.
Giudicare gli uni o gli altri con i metodi politici č farsi delle pippe
mentali: i fatti chiedono giustizia non pippe.
gus
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 degli adepti 
Ma questo fascio di merda è per caso un ammiratore dell'Irgun/Banda Stern?
Tb
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 Tb
Tu lo sei, merda razzista antisemita, ho scoperto da dove deriva il tuo
nick:
Un colono ebraico, BARUCH Goldstein, seguace della setta del rabbino Meir
Kahane, armato di fucile automatico, penetra nella moschea di Hebron
mentre i fedeli eseguono la preghiera del tramonto e comincia a sparare
all'impazzata. E' accompagnato da almeno altri due coloni, pure armati.
Goldstein è ucciso sul posto, ma prima ha avuto il tempo di uccidere 24
palestinesi e di ferirne gravemente almeno 100. 
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Goldstein č ucciso sul posto,
Assassinato sul posto.
-Stefano

 Un colono ebraico, BARUCH Goldstein,
Rotfl, merda fascista "sangue e terra".
Confermi che la terra è di chi era lì "da secoli"?
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