[PNEWS] CONFLICT: Benny Morris: "The Arabs Are Responsible"

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It is all a matter of perception and honesty. I wasn't at Dier Yassein but
I have friends who were and what matters in this as well as many other
incidents is who has an ax to grind and what side you were on. DY was what
happens in the heat of war. No war is pretty but it is amazing how much
the telling changes afterwards. My sources who were in that battle (I was
in others) denied that any civilians were killed intentionally though that
has always been the implication of the U.S. left The fact of the matter
is, as a national rep with New Jewish Agenda (before it folded) and U.S.
Peace Now, we never had anyone to talk to who were attempting to do the
same thing we were doing on the other side and the only way to satisfy our
Palestinian friends was for Israelis to quietly or not, just fade away.

TheGolem
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Hakki Alacakaptan wrote:


> Yikes! Mad Hitch disease spreads to Israel.
>
> So what are the Palestinians guilty of? They wish Israel would FOAD?. They
> have a bad attitude against the racist state that has never stopped taking
> land, water, dignity, and life from them since Begin and Shamir's gangs
> started their ethnic cleansing at Deir Yassin with Rabin's Haganah artillery
> blasting away in the background? And they have the chutzpah to refuse the
> deals proposed by these murderers and their younger apprentices who all
> became Israel's political leaders? So it's all their fault for choosing
> bombs instead of apartheid, right?
>
> People were saying that Benny Morris had knuckled under to pressure last
> year when in his book "Righteous Victims" he revised his account of the Deir
> Yassin massacre from 250 dead to 100, and denied that there were any rapes.
> You can't blame him for being scared when you have the example of Mossad
> defector Ostrovsky who is a Canadian citizen living in Canada but has
> nevertheless seen his career wrecked by the ADL, and his house burned down,
> and has finally stopped publishing altogether.
>
> Read Fisk's piece posted on the List today to see a courageous man accept
> the hatred of the oppressed and pay the price (awesome).
>
> Also: Journalist Yvonne Ridley's claim that while she was a Taiban captive
> western intelligence tried to get her killed
> http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/media/story.jsp?dir=61&story=109164&host=3&
> printable=1
>
> Hakki
>