Word: yassin
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Lahoud participates in the PLO's weak rationalization for their unconscionable acts of terrorism by comparing them to Deir Yassin, a unique, atypical, and unauthorized 1948 military operation that was roundly condemned by the Jewish leadership. Throughout Israel's history, the few individual soldiers who have taken upon themselves to attack Arab civilians have been court martialed and imprisoned by the Israeli government. Compare this Zionist position to the praise of PLO, Syrian, and Saudi Arabian spokesmen for the recent PLO terrorist rampage on the Israeli coast, and to the cavalier attitude toward Palestinian lives which is symbolized...
...point that terrorist warfare has been initiated by Israeli as well as Arab parties, one might recall the major atrocity committed by Israeli terrorists of the Irgun when these Zionists massacred nearly all of the defenseless inhabitants (254 men, women and children) of the Palestinian Arab village of Deir Yassin on April, 19, 1948, or one of the many other atrocities committed by Jews against the scores of other Palestinian villages in the first Palestine...
...Crimson would achieve the same negligible impact (in terms of informing the public on such a heated political issue) if it chose to devote an entire opinion page to a diary-type narrative of the 1948 Deir Yassin Massacre or to a daily account of life in a Palestinian refugee camp without first putting such an article in the proper historical-political context. A lead-in article giving general background information on the issue would enable the reader to discern the emotional biases and distortions implicit in the article...
...incident that shocked the world was an assault on the Arab village of Deir Yassin in April 1948. Begin claimed that the Irgun warned the villagers to leave Deir Yassin before the attack; in fact, the truck carrying the hit team's loudspeaker fell into a ditch. Using Sten guns, rifles, hand grenades and long Arab knives, Begin's men massacred more than 200 villagers, mostly old men, women and children. Many were mutilated and the women raped...
...illegal orders"--and given extraordinarily light sentences, which were subsequently shortened still more. After continued public recrimination, the commander responsible for the original orders was put on trial--and fined one piastre for a "technical error." Yet, the press was largely silent about Israel's "My Lai." Neither Deir Yassin nor Kfar Kassim was an isolated incident; Juryis documents numerous similar, if less dramatic incidents...