The Deir Yassin massacre: Why it still matters 75 years later
Brutal attacks by Zionist militias on Deir Yassin killed at least 107 Palestinians and made thousands flee other towns.
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Brutal attacks by Zionist militias on Deir Yassin killed at least 107 Palestinians and made thousands flee other towns.
Far-left Michigan Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib was fact-checked by Twitter when she claimed a brawl between Palestinian teenagers was the Israeli government targeting Palestinians.
I hesitated to use, for all these dark chapters, the term ‘genocide’. I used it only once when, describing the Israeli policy towards the Gaza Strip since 2006, I framed it as an incremental genocide.
The point was, and still is, to occupy the land, get rid of the people by any and every means to favour Jewish supremacy.
As Israeli history has disappeared into a rose-color haze of pleasing propaganda, some of the hard truths are conveniently forgotten such as the unabashed terrorism of ultra-nationalist leaders like Yitzhak Shamir, whose death has prompted eulogies that ignore his war crimes, writes Nima Shirazi.