Reverse and back of a modern tragedy: the 15th of May the State of Israel will celebrate another anniversary of the unilateral declaration of independence (1948), and the Palestinians (20 percent of the population, plus the millions in the diaspora), will remember the beginning of the Nakba (or naqba).
nakba Voice denotes the oldest Holocaust and durable contemporary history, and it is used to name the "catastrophe", loss or humiliation represented illegal establishment of the Zionist state: the expulsion and exodus of 700 000 Palestinians, preceded by the ethnic cleansing carried out by armed Zionist militias.
best sources to investigate the Nakba, scholars and politicians from Jews. Glimpse of the drama, Judah Magnes (rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) wrote: "The partition of Palestine will not stop the terrorist activities of Jewish groups, after obtaining the participation by terror, try to get the rest of the country Jews by the same means "(" The New York Times, 28/09/1946).
And others, like former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir expressed with stark cynicism: "Thanks to the terror founded the Jewish state" (Reuters, 04/05/1991). Meanwhile, the military, as Gen. Rafael Eitan, said, very loose chest, "When we have settled on the land, all Arabs (or Palestinians) can do is spin around like cockroaches in a bottle Drunk "(" El Pais, Madrid, 25.11.2004).
One of the most revealing documents are Nakba 'Diaries' of the Polish Zionist Ben Gurion (1886-1973), founder the State of Israel. On April 1948 the Palmach militia received orders for Operation Nahshon, "the main objective is the destruction of Arab villages ... and the expulsion of the villagers to become economic burden for the Arab forces. "
Here we must note a fact the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe (Haifa, 1954), author of "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine." Reprimanded by a leading socialist leaders of the trade union Histadrut (which questioned the attack on the peasants instead of confronting their employers), Ben Gurion said, "I do not agree with you that we face the Effendis (landowners), not peasants, our enemies are Arab peasants' ('Critique', Barcelona, \u200b\u200b2008, p. 414 et seq.).
Inserts in the strategic Plan Dalet, Operation Nahshon won for the first time, coordination under a single command of the Haganah Zionist militia (1920), with the fascist gangs of Zeev Jabotinsky (Irgun, 1931), and Abraham Stern ( Lehi, 1940). Political achievement at the end of 1948 led to the merger of the three branches paramilitaries in the Israel army (IDF), euphemistically called "self-defense."
Ben Gurion's suggestion the militia was clear: not forgive one village 'Arab'. Between April and May 1948, the Alexandroni Brigade swept all coastal villages, and the Golani Brigade cleared the eastern Galilee. Although strictly speaking, the cleanup had begun on 30 January (Sheik village, 60 dead), and 14 February (Sa'sa village, 20 houses blown up with their inhabitants inside, 60 dead).
However, the most talked slaughter took place on April 9, 1948 in Deir Yassin, peaceful, pastoral village situated on a hill west of Jerusalem near the Jewish neighborhood of Givat Shaul. The farmers of Deir Yassin had concluded a nonaggression pact with the Haganah. So Irgun gangs and Lehi took on the task.
About a hundred of victims (including 30 babies) were thrown into a pit. In 1972, Colonel Meir Bail gave his testimony: "The soldiers combed the houses, threw explosives inside, used every weapon they had against unarmed men, young and old, women and children. The officers did not lift a finger to prevent atrocities. Then 25 men were loaded onto a truck, paraded through Jerusalem in a victory parade, taken to a quarry and shot. "
Deir Yassin was buried in Kfar Shaul, a suburb of West Jerusalem, and was one of the 418 Palestinian villages on the ruins of demolished cities and housing estates were built Israelis. And on May 15, when Israel declared its "independence", 200 Palestinian civilians were shot in the cemetery of Tantura.
In May 2009, the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) approved the punishment to three years in prison for those who participate in events commemorating the Nakba. Two months later, Israel Twito, a spokesman for Education Minister Sa'ar Gide said: "It is inconceivable to talk in Israel about establishing our state as if it were a catastrophe." He announced that the word would be deleted from the texts Palestinian-Israeli schools (Reuters, 26/07/2009).
The premier Benjamin Netanyahu said that the use of the word Nakba is tantamount to spreading "propaganda against Israel." The historian Ilan Pappe disagrees: the Nakba continues.
© La Jornada
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