Today is the 68th anniversary of the Israeli massacre of Palestinians at Deir Yassin, near what is now Yad Vashem holocaust museum, which takes no notice of the massacre By Michael Hoffmanwww.RevisionistHistory.orgPalestinian victims of the Israeli massacre at Deir Yassin, April, 1948You will search in vain today for any significant notice in the U.S.
One might expect that only historians would care to revisit the 1948 war that created Israel. And yet the debate about what constitutes truth and myth from that period still provokes raw emotions.
Much rests on how those events are reconstructed, not least because the shock waves have yet to subside. Israelis fear, and Palestinians crave, a clearer picture of the past because it would powerfully illuminate the present. It might also influence the international community’s proposed solutions for the conflict.
by Jonathan Cook
The Electonic Intifada
The New England Committee to Defend Palestine
Myth: “‘Israel’ was a land without a people for a people without a land.”
Long-suffering Gaza and Bethlehem communities ignored – “no effort to go to the heart of the issues”
by Stuart Littlewood
(London) Before he left for the Holy Land I telephoned Justin Welby’s office for details of his first visit as the new Archbishop of Canterbury, only to be told none were available in advance. So I emailed a list of questions….
