wat0n wrote:I can't believe you insist on pushing for this and pretending that he did not establish the context clearly at the beginning of the letter
It's amazing, really, he wasn't talking about Irgun attacks against Jews, he wasn't talking about the British fighting the Jews of the Mandate, he wasn't talking about sharks riding unicorns killing Jews from Mandatory Palestine using laser beams to do so or anything else.
I think it's time to put a lid on it and save you from this desperation you have entangled yourself into by misquoting people and events because the amusement can only last for so long, now, from November 1947 and until the end of March and before the Arabs intervened, 2000 people had died indeed, but
from both sides.
wiki-History of the Conflict wrote:As the British evacuation from the region progressed, the violence became more prevalent. Murders, reprisals, and counter-reprisals came fast on each other's heels, resulting in dozens of victims killed on both sides in the process. The Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948, when around 120 fighters from the Irgun Zevai Leumi and the Israeli Stern Gang Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, a Palestinian Arab village of roughly 600 people. The sanguinary impasse persisted as no force intervened to put a stop to the escalating cycles of violence. During the first two months of the war, about 1,000 people were killed and 2,000 injured.[42] By the end of March, the figure had risen to 2,000 dead and 4,000 wounded.[43]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Israeli–Palestinian_conflict#1947-1948_war:_Yishuv_Vs_Palestinian_Arabs_and_volunteers
Are you saying that the 2000 dead from both sides were 2000 dead from the Jewish side?
That'a a new one even for you and Morris. Just goes to show what kind of bullshit people like you and Morris are capable of. Of course that is to be expected from a propagandist who clearly states that ethnic-cleansing the Palestinians was completely justified:
Benny Morris wrote:They perpetrated ethnic cleansing.
"There are circumstances in history that justify ethnic cleansing.
The term `to cleanse' is terrible.
"I know it doesn't sound nice but that's the term they used at the time. I adopted it from all the 1948 documents in which I am immersed."
And that circumstances may be created where ethnic-cleansing the existing Palestinians in both Israel and the OPT can be made possible and justified:
"But I am not a statesman. I do not put myself in his place. But as an historian, I assert that a mistake was made here. Yes. The non-completion of the transfer was a mistake."
And today? Do you advocate a transfer today?
"If you are asking me whether I support the transfer and expulsion of the Arabs from the West Bank, Gaza and perhaps even from Galilee and the Triangle, I say not at this moment. I am not willing to be a partner to that act. In the present circumstances it is neither moral nor realistic. The world would not allow it, the Arab world would not allow it, it would destroy the Jewish society from within. But I am ready to tell you that in other circumstances, apocalyptic ones, which are liable to be realized in five or ten years, I can see expulsions. If we find ourselves with atomic weapons around us, or if there is a general Arab attack on us and a situation of warfare on the front with Arabs in the rear shooting at convoys on their way to the front, acts of expulsion will be entirely reasonable. They may even be essential."
Including the expulsion of Israeli Arabs?
"The Israeli Arabs are a time bomb. Their slide into complete Palestinization has made them an emissary of the enemy that is among us. They are a potential fifth column. In both demographic and security terms they are liable to undermine the state. So that if Israel again finds itself in a situation of existential threat, as in 1948, it may be forced to act as it did then. If we are attacked by Egypt (after an Islamist revolution in Cairo) and by Syria, and chemical and biological missiles slam into our cities, and at the same time Israeli Palestinians attack us from behind, I can see an expulsion situation. It could happen. If the threat to Israel is existential, expulsion will be justified."
What is
your excuse wat0n?
And lastly pugsville asked you a simple question. Why does Morris consider the invasion of Jerusalem by Jordan as an invasion to Israel? When Jerusalem was not Israeli according to the plan which the Israelis allegedly honoured?
EN EL ED EM ON
...take your common sense with you, and leave your prejudices behind...