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Classified Docs Reveal Massacres of Palestinians in ’48 – and What Israeli Leaders Knew on Ha’aretz

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At the time of Israel’s campaign to conquer the Galilee, 120,000 Arabs remained in the area, half the number who had resided there on the eve of the United Nations’ adoption of the partition plan, in November 1947. The IDF’s rapid advance toward the northern border brought the soldiers into contact with the population that remained in the villages, among whom were elderly folk and women and children. The Palestinians’ fate was now in the hands of the Israeli forces. That was the background to the massacres that were perpetrated against civilians and against Arab soldiers who were taken captive. At the war’s end, some 30,000 Arabs remained in the north.

Continue reading at https://archive.fo/pMtFA#selection-299.0-299.87

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Burying the Nakba: How Israel Systematically Hides Evidence of 1948 Expulsion of Arabs by Hagar Shezaf

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This is one of those rare cases when we archive an article that doesn’t state the word ‘genocide’ in relation to Israel, but the information in it illustrates acts that amount to genocide against the indigenous Palestinian people. It also features a policy of concealment and genocide denial.

Four years ago, historian Tamar Novick was jolted by a document she found in the file of Yosef Vashitz, from the Arab Department of the left-wing Mapam Party, in the Yad Yaari archive at Givat Haviva. The document, which seemed to describe events that took place during the 1948 war, began:
“Safsaf [former Palestinian village near Safed] – 52 men were caught, tied them to one another, dug a pit and shot them. 10 were still twitching. Women came, begged for mercy. Found bodies of 6 elderly men. There were 61 bodies. 3 cases of rape, one east of from Safed, girl of 14, 4 men shot and killed. From one they cut off his fingers with a knife to take the ring.”
The writer goes on to describe additional massacres, looting and abuse perpetrated by Israeli forces in Israel’s War of Independence. 

Continue reading at https://web.archive.org/web/20220511074244/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-how-israel-systematically-hides-evidence-of-1948-expulsion-of-arabs-1.7435103

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Jesus of Nazareth was a Palestinian by The James Connolly Society

It should not be forgotten that the people in the country of Jesus are suffering ongoing genocide. It is not only our Islamic brothers and sisters who are tormented but our Christian brothers and sisters in Galilee, Nazareth and Bethlehem. Over two million Palestinians have been murdered since the Arab Revolt.

The James Connolly Society would like to take this opportunity to urge everyone to work together for better community relations and to raise awareness for all people persecuted everywhere with acts of genocide. This Christmas remember that Jesus of Nazareth was a Palestinian.

Continue reading at http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/jesus-of-nazareth-was-a-palestinian-1-6487330

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