Monday, June 15, 2009

"Their children will forget"...Ben Gurion


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  1. vJune 15, 2009 at 11:01 PM

    Their children will forget -
     
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRO8CjzFIh8

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  2. r.s.June 16, 2009 at 2:56 AM

    <p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style=" color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Tahoma;"><span style=" color: #404040; font-family: Verdana;">Ilan Pappe: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine </span></span>
    <p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style=" color: #404040; font-family: Verdana;"> </span>
    <p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style=" color: #404040; font-family: Verdana;">“Lydd lies fifty meters above sea level on the inner plains of Palestine. In the local popular memory it is engraved as the “city of the mosques”, some of which were famous around the Arab world. For example, The Big Mosque, al Umar was built during the time of the Mamluks by Sultan Rukin al-Din Baybars…On 10 July 1948 David Ben-Gurion appointed Yigal Allon as the commander of the attack and Yitzhak Rabin as his second in command. Allon first ordered al-Lydd to be bombarded from the air, the first city to be attacked this way. This was followed by a direct attack on the city’s centre…the men of Lydd, armed with old rifles, took shelter in the Dahamish Mosque in the city centre. After a few hours of fighting they surrendered, only to be massacred inside the mosque by Israeli forces. Palestinian sources recount that in the mosque and in the streets nearby, where the Jewish troops went on yet another rampage of murder and pillage, 426 men, women and children were killed (176 bobies were found in the mosque). The following day, 14 July, the Jewish soldiers went from house to house taking the people outside and marching about 50,000 of them out of the city towards the West Bank (more than half of them were already refugees from nearby villages). On of the most detailed accounts of what unfolded in al-Lydd was published in the summer of 1998 by sociologist Salim Tamari in the Journal of Palestine Studies…He was working as a young physician in the local hospital, alongside the dedicated Dr George Habash, the future founder and leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He recalls the endless numbers of corpses and the wounded who were brought in from the scene of the slaughter, and these were the same horrible experiences that were to haunt him to take up the road of guerilla warfare in order to redeem his town and homeland from those who had devastated it in 1948. Munayar also recounted the anguished scenes of expulsion he witnessed: During the night the soldiers began going into houses in areas they had occupied, rounding up the population and expelling them from the city. Some were told to go to Kharruba and Barfilyya, while other soldiers said: ‘Go to King Abdullah, to Ramallah’. The streets filled with people setting out for indeterminate destinations.” P.167</span>

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  3. r.s.June 16, 2009 at 2:57 AM

    <p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style=" color: #404040; font-family: Verdana;">Ilan Pappe: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine </span>
    <p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style=" color: #404040; font-family: Verdana;"> </span>
    <p style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style=" color: #404040; font-family: Verdana;">“Terrified by the news coming from Lydd, the (Ramla) city notables reached an agreement with the Israeli army that ostensibly allowed the people to stay. The Israeli units entered the city on 14 July and immediately began a search–and-arrest operation in which they rounded up 3000 people who they transferred to a prison camp nearby, and on the same day they started looting the city. The commander on the spot was Yitzhak Rabin. He recalled how Ben-Gurion had first called him in to his office to discuss the fate of both Lydd and Ramla: ‘Yigal Alon asked: what is to be done with the population? Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture that said: “Drive them out!” The people of both cities were forced to march, without food and water, to the West Bank, many of them dying from thirst and hunger on the way. As only a few hundred were allowed to stay in both towns, and given that people from nearby villages had fled there for refuge, Rabin estimated that a total of 50,000 people had been ‘transferred’ in this inhuman way. Again, the inevitable question presents itself: three years after the Holocaust, what went through the minds of those Jews who watched these wretched people pass by?” P.169</span>

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  4. vJune 16, 2009 at 5:26 AM

    I'm going to let you in on a little "secret," but you can't tell some of the others who post here because you will offend their tender sensibilities. The reason why the USA chooses to be awash in Zionists is because they are the closest to their sentiments and filthy activity.  In other words, they have proven themselves to be the same colonial trash with a desire to enslave the nations, so they make perfect bedfellows. So remember as you elaborate the atrocities of the Zionists that all you are doing is reflecting is the activity of not only the USA, but the entire Western junta - and the Zionists have proven they are just as ruthless and filthy as the rest of them.

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