At the Haganah Archive, where Shoshani continued her search – “like an naive child,” as she said – another surprise awaited her. The fighters encountered stiff resistance and sniper fire and advanced slowly through the village lanes while throwing grenades and blowing up houses. The left used it to denounce the right. Forty-eight Israeli Arab citizens were killed by Border Police gunfire. Not at all. Israelische wie palästinensische Historiker gehen heute von 100 bis 120 toten Arabern aus, von denen etwa zehn sicher als bewaffnete Kämpfer bezeichnet werden können. Das Buch The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, in dem Pappe diese umstrittene These aufstellte, wurde unter anderen von seinem Historikerkollegen Benny Morris scharf kritisiert. Deir Yassin: History of a Lie Introduction For fi fty years, critics of Israel have used the battle of Deir Yassin to blacken the image of the Jewish State, alleging that Jewish fi ghters mas-sacred hundreds of Arab civilians during a battle in that Arab village near Jerusalem in 1948. 'When the Cossacks burst into Jewish neighborhoods, then that should have looked something like this,' wrote Lt. Col. Mordechai Gichon of Deir Yassin. Le village tient son nom de la présence de la mosquée d'un Cheikh Yassin dans le village. […] Die Terroristen, weit entfernt davon, sich ihrer Taten zu schämen, waren stolz auf das Massaker, machten es weithin bekannt und luden sämtliche Auslandskorrespondenten im Land ein, die Leichenberge und die allgemeine Zerstörung in Deir Yasin in Augenschein zu nehmen. “I saw a fair number of corpses,” he added. I remember mostly women and old men.” Tsaban testified that he saw inhabitants shot in the back and dismissed the claims of some of participants in the action that the locals had been hit in exchanges of fire. Jörg-Uwe Albig u.a. Diese Seite wurde zuletzt am 9. Deir-Yassin was an exception to the rule: the ETZEL, LEHI, Hagana and MAPAM leaders had a vested interest in spreading highly inflated versions of the true facts. These fighters, along with the village’s residents, had been attacking nearby Jewish neighborhoods and traffic on the Jerusalem … Mai 1948 – also binnen 35 Tagen – bereits zwischen 250.000 und 300.000 arabische Palästinenser geflohen oder wurden vertrieben. “I won’t tell you that we were there with kid gloves on. I stood them against a wall and blasted them with two rounds from the Tommy gun,” he wrote, describing how he carried out the execution of the girls with a submachine gun. The Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948, when around 130 fighters from the Far-right wing Zionist paramilitary groups Irgun and Lehi killed at least 107 Palestinian Arabs, including women and children, in Deir Yassin, a village of roughly 600 people near Jerusalem. A young fellow tied to a tree and set on fire. We hear a lot, in the media, about Poles and Jedwabne. “When I got to Deir Yassin, the first thing I saw was a big tree to which a young Arab fellow was tied. The Deir Yassin massacre was the first of a number of incidents in which Jewish fighters were involved in killing civilians in the War of Independence and after it was over. […] But the terrorists, far from being ashamed of their act, were proud of this massacre, publicized it widely, and invited all the foreign correspondents present in the country to view the heaped corpses and the general havoc at Deir Yassin. “They ran like cats,” related the commander of the operation, Yehoshua Zettler, the Jerusalem commander of Lehi, as he described the Arabs fleeing from their homes. Reflections on Global Hoax Scientists in Australia and New Zealand; Search for: Tag: Deir Yassin. Further along in the letter, he describes in detail his part in the massacre that took place there. Der Anteil der Hagana blieb unklar. Deir Yassin declared its neutrality during the 1948 Palestine war between Arabs and Jews. The Deir Yassin “massacre” lie was put to rest, once and for all, with the publication last year of the book Deir Yassin: The End of the Myth by Prof. Eliezer Tauber, a former Dean of the Faculty of Jewish Studies at Bar Ilan University. Deir Yassin - now Har Nof - was an Arab village on the western outskirts of Jerusalem. Der Irgun-Kommandant berichtete: „[Die Angreifer trafen auf] als Frauen verkleidete Männer [und fingen deshalb an], auf Frauen zu schießen, die nicht auf dem schnellsten Weg zu dem für die Sammlung der Gefangenen bestimmten Platz liefen.“[3], Die Anzahl der Opfer konnte nicht genau ermittelt werden. Remembering Deir Yassin : the future of Israel and Palestine. Als Menachem Begin Ende 1948 die USA besuchte, um für die Ziele der von ihm gegründeten Partei zu werben, wandten sich prominente amerikanische Juden – darunter Albert Einstein und Hannah Arendt – in einem Brief an die New York Times gegen ihn und die von ihm gegründete Partei unter ausdrücklicher Bezugnahme auf das Massaker. Demnach habe ihn der Palästinenserführer Hussein Khalidi angewiesen, solche Informationen zu verbreiten, um arabische Armeen zu einem Eingreifen in den jüdisch-arabischen Konflikt zu bewegen.[9]. Shoshani first became interested in the Deir Yassin story about a decade ago, while working on her final project at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, which focused on visual documentation of the Kfar Shaul state psychiatric hospital, which in turn was built on the lands of Deir Yassin after the war. Posted on October 1, 2016 October 22, 2016 by Dick Burns. As in the case of Deir Yassin, the state is still censoring the archival materials from Kafr Qasem. Sharif Kananah, Nihad Zaytuni: Deir Yassin القرى الفلسطينية المدمرة, Birzeit University Press, 1988. Yair Tsaban, a former Meretz MK and government minister, related in his interview with Shoshani that after the massacre, in which he did not participate, he was sent with fellow members of the Youth Brigades to bury the corpses of the dead. The number of Arab inhabitants who were killed there and the circumstances of their deaths has been disputed for many years, but most researchers state that 110 inhabitants of the village, among them women, children and elderly people, were killed there. Denying Deir Yassin is just as bad as denying the Holocaust of the Jews/Gypsies/unwanteds of Europe. The village was razed after a massacre of around 107 of its residents on April 9, 1948, by the Jewish paramilitary groups Irgun and Lehi. Haaretz joined her in the petition. He also claims he photographed from afar what looked like a few dozen other corpses collected in a quarry adjacent to the village. „Deir Yassin Remembered” heisst eine in den Vereinigen Staaten gegründete Organisation, die daran interessiert ist, an einem Ort mit Blick auf die Holocaust-Gedenkstätte Yad Vashem in Jerusalem ein Denkmal für die Vorkommnisse zu errichten – offensichtlich um auf eine Analogie zwischen den beiden Geschehnissen hinzuweisen. Die neuen Bewohner der nun Giv'at Scha'ul genannten Siedlung waren hauptsächlich Einwanderer aus Polen, Rumänien und der Slowakei, die der ultraorthodoxen Partei Poalei Agudat Jisra’el verbunden waren. He meticulously reviewed every piece of evidence and interviewed the last remaining eyewitnesses. Reading it could reopen a bleeding wound from the days of the War of Independence that to this day stirs a great deal of emotion in Israeli society. In the meantime Shoshani managed to get hold of some other photos connected to the massacre, among them a series of pictures documenting orphaned children whose parents had been killed at Deir Yassin. In Deir Yassin begann der Überfall am Freitag, den 9. April die Operation Nachschon, die die arabische Blockade Jerusalems beenden sollte, um Nahru… Die Tat wurde später in der innenpolitischen Debatte gegen Begins Partei Cherut und Likud verwendet. im palästinensischen Dialekt Dēr Yāsīn) war ein palästinensisches Dorf, heute Teil der im Nordwesten Jerusalems gelegenen orthodoxen Siedlung Giv'at Scha'ul. 'Within a few hours, half the village wasn’t there any more,' Zettler wrote of the day. A street in Deir Yassin, today and in 1948. Die betreffende Stelle lautet: „Ein schockierendes Beispiel war ihr Vorgehen in dem arabischen Dorf Deir Yasin. Deir Yassin had a peaceful reputation and was even said by a Jewish newspaper to have driven out some Arab militants. They had tied him to it and burned him.

If Deir Yassin was a hoax, so was the Holocaust. April, also den Tag nach dem Massaker. I am amazed how pathetic Pro-Palestinian trolls are. So schossen manche jüdische Soldaten sowohl auf arabische Soldaten als auch auf Zivilisten. Credit: IDF archive / Still from the film 'Born in Deir Yassin'. Deir Yasin (auch Deir Jassin, arabisch دير ياسين Dair Yāsīn bzw. [19][20], 31.78647535.178033333333Koordinaten: 31° 47′ 11″ N, 35° 10′ 41″ O. Israelisches Staatsarchiv, Büro des Ministerpräsidenten, Aufnahme von Einwanderern in der Landwirtschaft, 7133 5559/C. Deir Yasin war aufgrund seiner Nähe zu Jerusalem und seiner erhöhten Lage ein strategisch günstiger Ort, dessen Einnahme jedoch keine hohe Priorität während der Operation besaß. Gegen diese schnelle Neubesiedlung wurde von den Gelehrten Martin Buber, Ernst Simon, Werner Senator und Cecil Roth in einem an den Premierminister Ben-Gurion gerichteten Brief Einwände erhoben. When the Arabs inflated the number of casualties and perpetuated stories of rape and other atrocities, the Haganah did not stop these rumors; the Haganah was invested in showing that the Irgun and Lechi, smaller paramilitaries who had led the attack, were not up to snuff. This letter is one of the historical documents revealed in a new documentary film entitled “Born in Deir Yassin” by director Neta Shoshani, who devoted the past several years to comprehensive historical research on the Deir Yassin massacre, one of the constitutive incidents of the War of Independence, which has remained a blot on Israel to this day. Die arabische Seite hat auch behauptet, dass es im Rahmen der Aktion zu Vergewaltigungen arabischer Frauen durch jüdische Soldaten kam. Bis heute sind große Teile des Materials, das das Heeresarchiv über das Massaker besitzt, darunter Fotos und Zeugenberichte, unter Verschluss. Das Massaker wurde offiziell von allen Seiten verurteilt, einschließlich der Hagana und der Jewish Agency. April, kurz vor Sonnenaufgang. What actually happened at Deir Yassin on April 9, 1948? Far from being a peaceful Arab village, Deir Yassin was heavily armed and also harbored foreign troops—mostly Iraqi. Ab dem Sommer 1948 wurde das Dorf planmäßig neu besiedelt und an die Jerusalemer Infrastruktur angeschlossen. But if you are coming into a civilian locale and dead people are scattered around in it – then it looks like a pogrom. So let’s once hear it. No way.”, The massacre at Deir Yassin had many repercussions. In the village I killed an armed Arab man and two Arab girls of 16 or 17 who were helping the Arab who was shooting. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved. He handed the film over to his superiors, he says, and since then he has not seen the photos. Der kommandierende Hagana-Offizier von Jerusalem, David Shaltiel, hatte dem Einsatz mit der Bedingung zugestimmt, dass das Dorf danach besetzt werden müsse, um es nicht zu einem Rückzugsort für arabische Kampfverbände werden zu lassen. He concludes the letter with the words: “This was a really tremendous operation and it is with reason that the left is vilifying us again.”. “That cannot have been in the heat of battle. Deir Yassin (دير ياسين) était un village arabe palestinien situé à 5 km à l'ouest de Jérusalem dans la Palestine mandataire avec une population comprise entre 400 et 1200 habitants [1] en 1948. Sein Ablehnungsschreiben datiert vermutlich zufällig auf den 10. April griffen terroristische Banden dieses friedliche Dorf an, das kein militärisches Ziel darstellte, töteten die meisten Einwohner (240 Männer, Frauen und Kinder) und ließen ein paar am Leben, um sie als Gefangene durch die Straßen Jerusalems zu treiben. “To me it looked a bit like a pogrom,” said Gichon, who died about a year ago. The 150,000 Jewish inhabitants were under constant military pressure; the 2,500 Jews living in the Old City were victims of an Arab blockade that lasted five months before they were forced to surrender on May 29, 1948. [13] Pappes Buch A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples, das sich ebenfalls mit der Zeit vor Israels Staatsgründung beschäftigt, wurde von Ephraim Karsh mit ähnlich scharfen Worten kritisiert. The assault occurred as Jewish militia sought to relieve the blockade of Jerusalem during the civil war that preceded the end of British rule in Palestine. The Undeniable Slaughter of Arab Civilians by Jewish Soldiers. Water supplies: Two springs, one to the north and the other to the south which provided the village with fresh water supply. Deir Yassin (Arabic: دير ياسين‎, Dayr Yāsīn) was a Palestinian Arab village of around 600 inhabitants about 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) west of Jerusalem. Zitiert in: Segev: „A shocking example was their behavior in the Arab village of Deir Yassin. Die Aktion wurde vom späteren israelischen Premierminister und Friedensnobelpreisträger Menachem Begin kommandiert. Not everyone agrees with the characterization “massacre.” Historian Dr. Uri Milstein, who studies Israel’s wars, does a lot to propagate the thesis that there wasn’t any massacre in the village. It was located across the valley from Beit Hakerem where I was lodging. Dieses Dorf, an keiner Hauptstraße und inmitten jüdischer Ländereien gelegen, hatte nicht am Krieg teilgenommen und hatte sogar arabische Banden, die das Dorf als Basis nutzen wollten, vertrieben. Das Dorf mit etwa 600 Einwohnern wurde am 9. After the events of Deir Yassin, there was much propaganda about it on both sides. Girls lined up against a wall and shot with a submachine gun. Another infamous incident was the one at Kafr Qasem in 1956, on the day the fighting in the Sinai Campaign began. “They took dead people, piled them up and burned them. I photographed that,” he related. Zettler denied that his people carried out a massacre in the village but he spared no words to describe the way its inhabitants were killed. Orphaned children whose parents had been killed at Deir Yassin. The assault on the village of Deir Yassin began on the morning of April 9, 1948, as part of Operation Nachshon to break through the blockaded road to Jerusalem, with the participation of about 130 Lehi and Irgun fighters who received aid from the Haganah – the pre-independence army. “An old man and a woman, sitting in the corner of a room with their faces to the wall, and they are shot in the back,” he recalled. Jews in Jerusalem were under siege by Arabs, their only supply of food and water was from Tel Aviv. Possibly this is because the photos are part of the visual material that is hidden to this day in the Archive of the IDF and the Defense Ministry, of which the state is prohibiting publication even 70 years after the fact. To her surprise, she found that the task was not at all simple. Did the Haganah act properly in allowing the rumors of Deir Yassin … Some of them broke a silence of decades when they spoke to her, often for the first time in front of a camera. Dieser Anschlag wird als Vergeltungsmaßnahme mit Deir Yassin in Verbindung gebracht. Sie baten ihn, eine Neubesiedlung zumindest vorerst nicht zuzulassen, und schrieben: „Der Name dieses Dorfes ist in der ganzen jüdischen Welt, in der ganzen arabischen Welt und überhaupt in der ganzen Welt verrufen. For two years now a document that makes for difficult reading has been lying in the archives of the association to commemorate the heritage of Lehi – the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel pre-state underground militia. Vier Tage später, am 13. Dr. Eliezer Tauber’s Contribution in Deir Yassin: The End of a Myth. Er warf ihm „zahllose Fehler und Ungenauigkeiten“ vor; darunter auch, dass Pappe Deir Yasin nach Haifa verortet habe, obwohl es in der Nähe von Jerusalem liege.[14]. Die Eroberung Deir Yasins dauerte mehrere Stunden. Ob diese die Menschen in Deir Yasin überhaupt erreichten, ist umstritten. Die Tötung eines Teils der verstorbenen Frauen ist darauf zurückzuführen, dass sich arabische Männer teilweise als Frauen verkleidet hatten. Ein erheblicher Teil der Fläche des ehemaligen Dorfes liegt innerhalb der Anlagen des 1951 begründeten Kfar Scha'ul-Hospitals, einer psychiatrischen Klinik, die überregional bekannt ist durch die Behandlung des bei ausländischen Besuchern Jerusalems immer wieder auftretenden Jerusalem-Syndroms. “If you’re occupying an army position – it’s not a pogrom, even if a hundred people are killed.