You are [redacted]Sculptor wrote: ↑Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:12 amIsrael is a terrorist state.Averroes wrote: ↑Thu Jun 11, 2020 11:19 pmThank you for the reference to that document. Please, allow me to share the following with you in return. You might be interested to know that there is a YouTube video of a regretful Israeli soldier of that period who participated in the 1948 massacre of the Palestinians and his testimony corroborates the description in the article you dug up. The name of the soldier is Amnon Neumann and the following is an except of what he said in the video:
Here is the link to the full interview if you are interested: https://youtu.be/KS4OXOom_vkAmnon Neumann (regretful Israeli oppressor) wrote:
The first time I entered Kaukawba and Burayr, I had never seen such poverty, there was nothing there. No furniture or anything, there were shelves made of straw and mud. The houses were made of mud and straw. It was a horrible thing. The only thing that happened to them was the 1948 tragedy of the Nakba. Because we did not come to take their taxes, but we came to seize the land from foreigners. That was the basis of our thinking. To inherit the land. And we inherited the land and whoever inherits the land oust the others. This is the reason we did not return them. This happened everywhere. In the south as well as the north, everywhere. This is the most important point. The land was not empty as I was told as a child. As children we were told all sorts of stories. The land was never empty. I know this because I lived with Arabs, I know it was not empty. At that time I did not see anything wrong with what we were doing. I was brought up with it like every one was brought up. And I fulfilled my duty with loyalty. If I was told to do things that I do not want to mention, I did them with no doubts at all. Now, it is already fifty sixty years that I am filled with regrets.
(...)We shot our guns and they fled to Gaza. We surrounded them from all directions, shot in the air or at them, and they ran away. They had nothing to defend. They knew they had to go to Gaza. And they knew the directions better than we did.
(…) In the last day of the truce, we were told the Egyptians brought to Kaufaha and Muharaka 20mm canons and that tomorrow they will activate them and that we need to destroy these villages. And we went there and the men fled, it was customary. The men were running before, leaving the women and children and then we would expell them. And this is how it went in Kaufaha. We surrounded the village and started shooting in the air and everyone started screaming, and we drove them out. Women and children went to Gaza. (...) We did not enter the villages to stay there, but to expel them. By the morning there was nobody there. We burnt their houses with hay roofs. The only village that I mentioned before, Huj that remained intact (...) ...they were expelled together with the Arabs of Ashkelon. Because in 1951, Moshe Dayan, IDF's General Chief of Staff, decided to expel the 2000 remaining Arabs of Ashkelon. And he expelled them to Gaza, together with the people of Huj. These were peaceful and quiet villagers. They deserved to remain on their lands as they did 5000 years before.
There are many photos of the Nakba depicting the great exodus of the Palestinian people fleeing from the Israeli oppressors. In case you or anyone else might be interested, I have selected some below to post here. According to the reference you provided, Israel wants to hide these. So let us show them here!
You have seen the picture of rabbis allegedly buying land which was shared by another member. And this was a very interesting picture actually. The most important element of that picture to consider is not the picture itself but the date, ie 1920! At that time the Jews and Muslims in Palestine were living peacefully together as they had been living for hundreds of years before and throughout the lands under Muslim administration. Rabbi David Weiss talks eloquently on that subject. Among the many Youtube videos of him, I selected the following one to show you, if you be interested of course: https://youtu.be/vqBJTBIUtM8
Let's not forget the bombing of the King David Hotel, (killing 91 people of various nationalities) and numerous killings by the likes of Moshe Dyan (later to be PM id Israel). Despite Britain's stated intention of founding a state for Jews at the time, they struck directly at the Mandatory Authority founded by the League of Nations.
Since that time Israel continues to flout UN resolutions.
'Terrorist state'. What does that mean? The UK is a 'terrorist state. The US is a 'terrorist state'. Australia is a 'terrorist state'.
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