02:1702:17, 29 April 2024diffhist+527
Deir Yassin massacre
→1948 Arab-Israeli war: Add footnote quotation "Meir countered that back in November, they had agreed on a partition with Jewish statehood. Why not abide by the agreement? Abdullah replied that the situation had changed. There had been Deir Yassin, and he was now only one of a coalition of five war-bound Arab rulers, no longer a free agent. "He is going to this business [that is, war] not out of joy or confidence, but as a person who is in a trap and can't get out," Meir later explained."Tags: Mobile editMobile web editAdvanced mobile edit
02:0002:00, 29 April 2024diffhist+742
Deir Yassin massacre
→1948 Arab-Israeli war: +
Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the
Arab League, stated that "The massacre of Deir Yassin was to a great extent the cause of the wrath of the Arab nations and the most important factor for sending [in] the Arab armies."{{refn|Matthew Hogan (2001). ''The 1948 Massacre at Deir Yassin Revisited'': "Meanwhile, the subsequent May 1948 outbreak of regional war between the newly declared state of Israel and the Arab states, beginning the prolonged Arab-Israeli con
01:5301:53, 29 April 2024diffhist+542
1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight
Add footnote: {{refn|Matthew Hogan (2001). ''The 1948 Massacre at Deir Yassin Revisited'': "Meanwhile, the subsequent May 1948 outbreak of regional war between the newly declared state of Israel and the Arab states, beginning the prolonged Arab-Israeli conflict, was contemporaneously explained by Arab League chief
Azzam Pasha in terms of the
Deir Yassin incident: "The massacre of Deir Yassin was to a great extent the cause of the wrath of the Arab nations and the mo
01:4001:40, 29 April 2024diffhist+519
Deir Yassin massacre
→Immediate aftermath: +Lehi commander
Yehoshua Zettler, who participated in the attack, described how some of the bodies of the victims were burned in an attempt to dispose of them.{{refn|Haaretz 2017 "Zettler also provided a harsh account of the burning of the bodies of those who were killed, after the village was occupied. “Our guys made a number of mistakes there that made me angry. Why did they do that?” he said. “They took dead people, piled them up and burned them. There began to b
22:2122:21, 28 April 2024diffhist+24
Betar
Better source needed tag for "Today, Betar promotes Jewish leadership on university campuses as well as in local communities."Tags: Mobile editMobile web editAdvanced mobile edit
03:2403:24, 21 April 2024diffhist+643
Deir Yassin massacre
→Historiography: According to
New HistorianBenny Morris, "Arab chroniclers and historians by and large related, and continue to relate, to Deir Yassin as representative of
Yishuv/Israeli military behavior in 1948, not as an exception; Deir Yassin, for them, is the paradigm for the
Nakba as a whole. The implication is that massacres accompanied or followed the conquest of all or most Arab sites. This is the thrust of
Khalidi’s (and, incidentally, [[Uri Milst
02:1702:17, 29 April 2024diffhist+527
Deir Yassin massacre
→1948 Arab-Israeli war: Add footnote quotation "Meir countered that back in November, they had agreed on a partition with Jewish statehood. Why not abide by the agreement? Abdullah replied that the situation had changed. There had been Deir Yassin, and he was now only one of a coalition of five war-bound Arab rulers, no longer a free agent. "He is going to this business [that is, war] not out of joy or confidence, but as a person who is in a trap and can't get out," Meir later explained."Tags: Mobile editMobile web editAdvanced mobile edit
02:0002:00, 29 April 2024diffhist+742
Deir Yassin massacre
→1948 Arab-Israeli war: +
Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the
Arab League, stated that "The massacre of Deir Yassin was to a great extent the cause of the wrath of the Arab nations and the most important factor for sending [in] the Arab armies."{{refn|Matthew Hogan (2001). ''The 1948 Massacre at Deir Yassin Revisited'': "Meanwhile, the subsequent May 1948 outbreak of regional war between the newly declared state of Israel and the Arab states, beginning the prolonged Arab-Israeli con
01:5301:53, 29 April 2024diffhist+542
1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight
Add footnote: {{refn|Matthew Hogan (2001). ''The 1948 Massacre at Deir Yassin Revisited'': "Meanwhile, the subsequent May 1948 outbreak of regional war between the newly declared state of Israel and the Arab states, beginning the prolonged Arab-Israeli conflict, was contemporaneously explained by Arab League chief
Azzam Pasha in terms of the
Deir Yassin incident: "The massacre of Deir Yassin was to a great extent the cause of the wrath of the Arab nations and the mo
01:4001:40, 29 April 2024diffhist+519
Deir Yassin massacre
→Immediate aftermath: +Lehi commander
Yehoshua Zettler, who participated in the attack, described how some of the bodies of the victims were burned in an attempt to dispose of them.{{refn|Haaretz 2017 "Zettler also provided a harsh account of the burning of the bodies of those who were killed, after the village was occupied. “Our guys made a number of mistakes there that made me angry. Why did they do that?” he said. “They took dead people, piled them up and burned them. There began to b
22:2122:21, 28 April 2024diffhist+24
Betar
Better source needed tag for "Today, Betar promotes Jewish leadership on university campuses as well as in local communities."Tags: Mobile editMobile web editAdvanced mobile edit
03:2403:24, 21 April 2024diffhist+643
Deir Yassin massacre
→Historiography: According to
New HistorianBenny Morris, "Arab chroniclers and historians by and large related, and continue to relate, to Deir Yassin as representative of
Yishuv/Israeli military behavior in 1948, not as an exception; Deir Yassin, for them, is the paradigm for the
Nakba as a whole. The implication is that massacres accompanied or followed the conquest of all or most Arab sites. This is the thrust of
Khalidi’s (and, incidentally, [[Uri Milst