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<div class="post_meta">Kabobfest <span class="dot">⋅</span> April 10, 2011 <span class="dot"> </span><a href="http://www.kabobfest.com/2011/04/deir-yassin-resources.html#comments"></a></div>
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<p>This  weekend marked the 63rd anniversary of the massacre at Deir Yassin  village near western Jerusalem: April 9-10, 1948.  Pre-state Zionist  militias descended on Palestinians, killing scores, many of whom were  shot at close range.</p>
<p>The massacre was publicized by propagandists looking to convince  other Palestinians in the vicinity to flee. Along with other terror  campaigns, such as burning crops and bullying villagers, the Zionist  militias used the bloodshed there to scare other Palestinians. Deir  Yassin was re-settled by Israeli colonists, something that even liberal  Zionists like Martin Buber found outrageous.</p>
<p>Though there were other massacres, Deir Yassin stands out as especially gruesome and instrumental to the capture of Jerusalem.</p>
<p>These are resources sent out by the <a href="http://www.palestine-studies.org/">Institute for Palestine Studies</a>.</p>
<p><strong>ARTICLES</strong></p>
<p>-Historian <a href="http://bit.ly/i3capM">Joel Beinin called Deir Yassin</a> “the most infamous massacre of Palestinian Arabs.”</p>
<p>He wrote, “The efforts of the Zionist armed forces to retain  Jerusalem, including the massacre at Dayr Yassin, were an important  factor prompting the Arab population of western Jerusalem and its  surrounding villages (Malha, Lifta, ‘Ayn Karim, etc.) to leave.” (p. 11)</p>
<p>Beinin recounted a debate in the Knesset in 1949 in which one member  said “If you don’t know [about Dayr Yassin] you can ask” David  Ben-Gurion.  The Knesset member also said, “thanks to Dayr Yassin we won  the war, sir.”</p>
<p>The exchange was published <a href="http://bit.ly/hWQAY3">in this article (p. 23)</a> by Amnon Kapeliouk.</p>
<p>-Nathan Krystall wrote that a Red Cross official said the 1948 Deir  Yassin massacre had no “military reason or provocation of any kind” in  his<a href="http://bit.ly/g4YIf3"> article on the de-population of western Jerusalem</a> (p. 10)</p>
<p>-A <a href="http://bit.ly/h2Ip9Z">1991 Norman Finkelstein article</a> on myths about Al-Nakba, in response to Benny Morris, mentioned the  Deir Yassin massacre, but places it in a campaign to empty much of  Palestine of Palestinians.</p>
<p>-Palestinian <a href="http://bit.ly/i0IwQc">attorney Raja Shehadeh</a> “grew up hearing about the massacre in Deir Yassin but didn’t know that it was one of scores” that took place.</p>
<p><strong>BOOKS</strong></p>
<p>-There is some important testimony on Deir Yassin in the classic  book, ‘From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine  Problem Until 1948.’ Ed. Walid Khalidi, pp. 761-766. It is <a href="http://www.palestine-studies.org/books.aspx?href=details&amp;id=383">for sale online</a>.</p>
<p>-An important book — published in Arabic — is ‘<a href="http://bit.ly/g8UH5Q">Dayr Yasin: 9 April 1948</a>,’  by Walid Khalidi.  It is based on the personal testimonies of thirty  survivors of the Dayr Yasin massacre of 1948. It also draws on the  accounts of individuals from the groups that perpetrated the massacre:  the Irgun, Stern Gang, and the Palmach.</p>
<p>Woven together to form a composite picture of the events leading up  to the massacre, this narrative is distinguished from other accounts by  its comprehensiveness and its placement of the massacre in its wider  geopolitical context. The book contains six maps and six appendices that  list the victims and classify them by family, gender, and age.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.kabobfest.com/2011/04/deir-yassin-resources.html">Source</a></p>
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