[lbo-talk] The Proud Terrorists of Ramle

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Sep 7 12:20:21 PDT 2004


Bryan Atinsky wrote:


>A co-worker of mine pointed out this very revealing quote from the
>official Ramle Municipality website. The history is generally
>known, so it is no somoking gun in that sense, and during the War of
>'48 in Palestine/Israel there was no shortage of these types of acts
>against civilian targets from either side. But it seems quite
>stunning to me that an official Israeli government website would so
>unabashadly frame an explicit terror attack in heroic terms. The
>Israeli propaganda machine must have had a bit of a glitch in this
>case and their radar was down:
>
>http://www.ramla.muni.il/E_ramla/dani%20mass/kibush.html
>
>"A daring sabotage operation was done by a Jewish fighter in the
>marketplace. On Febuary 18, 1948 A young Jew dressed as an Arab had
>infiltrated into the marketplace carrying a basket full of
>explosives covered with vegetables. He left the basket there and
>fled. The explosion killed 7 and injured 45. This action imposed
>fear on the Arabs of Ramla..."

Creepy. How is the history of Jewish terrorism handled in Israeli public life? E.g., blowing up the King David Hotel - is it talked about? Sanitized? Celebrated?

Doug



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