Well who in the hell are you to say? Were you there? I provided a link! YOU nothing!
I don't believe a word you wrote because YOU wrote it! Who the hell are YOU????
Wrong, your link verifies what I said, not what you said.
Your link does not you said.
For example, you claimed it was the Haganah fighting defensively against attacks on highway convoys.
But your link says it was not Haganah regulars, but vigilantes massacring innocent villages not directly on the road, but everywhere.
{... The
Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948, when around 130
[1] fighters from the
Far-right wing Zionist paramilitary groups
Irgun and
Lehi killed at least 107
Palestinian Arabs, including women and children, ...}
Irgun and Lehi are the same criminals who bombed the King David Hotel, murdering the British peacekeepers, forcing them to leave.
Your link shows a number of war crimes.
{... Some of the Palestinian Arabs were killed in the course of the battle, others while trying to flee or surrender. A number of prisoners were executed, some after being paraded in
West Jerusalem.
[1][5][6] In addition to the killing and widespread looting, there may have been cases of mutilation and rape.
[7] ...}
Anyone defending it is a criminal:
{... The massacre was condemned by the leadership of the
Haganah—the Jewish community's main paramilitary force— by the area's two
chief rabbis and famous Jews abroad like
Albert Einstein,
Jessurun Cardozo,
Hannah Arendt,
Sidney Hook and others. The
Jewish Agency for Israel sent Jordan's
King Abdullah a letter of apology, ...}
It was a deliberate massacre. You can't use explosives and claim otherwise.
{...
Use of explosives
The doors of the houses in Deir Yassin were made of iron and not wood, as the attackers had thought, and they had difficulty breaking into the houses.
[48] Lapidot sent word to Raanan, who was watching the progress from Givat Shaul, to send explosives. Soon afterward, Raanan and his aides appeared with knapsacks filled with TNT. The Irgun fighters were instructed to dynamite houses as they advanced. Under covering fire, the dynamite teams advanced and set charges to houses. In certain instances, the force of the explosions destroyed entire parts of houses, burying the Arabs inside them. A total of 15 houses were blown up.
[38]
Zeidan recalled hiding with her family and another when the door was blasted open. The attackers took them outside where they executed an already wounded man and one of his daughters. Two of her own family members were then killed: "Then they called my brother Mahmoud and shot him in our presence, and when my mother screamed and bent over my brother (she was carrying my little sister Khadra who was still being breastfed) they shot my mother too."
[2]
Whether houses were blown up or not is disputed. American historian Matthew Hogan claims that they weren't. He cites Pa'il who in his testimony said he was sure that "[n]o house in Deir Yassin was bombed" and independent visitors to the village, following its fall, who didn't mention structural damage. Among them Eliyahu Arbel, a Haganah operations officer, who recalled finding dead inside the houses but "with no signs of battle and not as a result of blowing up houses" and Irgunist Menachem Adler, who didn't participate in the attack, but visited the village a few days later, who said "I didn't see the destruction that is always recounted." Hogan believes that "it is unlikely that the inexperienced and undersupplied fighters under fire efficiently maneuvered explosives around defended houses."
[2] He further argues that if explosives were used, the number of wounded and dismembered bodies would have been much higher.
[49] Instead, Hogan claims that the explosives story were used by the perpetrators to explain the high number of deaths as the result of combat rather than as a deliberate massacre.
[2] ...}
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