In 1950, Doubleday censored frank account of Deir Yassin massacre from
prominent American’s book
by PHILIP WEISS on November 21, 2011
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/11/
One of the ideological puzzles of the Ron Paul campaign is the fact
that the best line on Iran and Israel from any of the candidates, by
far, has come from an isolationist libertarian Republican from Texas.
And the most impressive president on the Israel-Palestine issue was
Dwight Eisenhower, who bucked the Israelis in Suez and insisted on the
right of return of refugees. (I know, Jimmy Carter is pretty good
too).
Recently a friend pointed me to the fact that the rightwing publisher
Regnery put out two books in the 1950s that had a more clear-eyed view
of the conflict than any American publications beside the work of anti-
Zionist rabbi Elmer Berger. Regnery published They are Human Too, a
wrenching book of pictures of the Palestinian refugees. And in 1957 it
published Freda Utley’s Will the Middle East Go West? [full text at
the link]. Steeped in national interest politics, and calling for the
two-state solution, the book also includes forthright descriptions of
Israeli crimes.
Bottom line: for whatever reason, cultural or political, American
rightwingers have done some of the best thinking on the Israel
Palestine issue; and resolving this conflict inside American life
means recovering some of their truths and working with them.
What a long introduction to my headline! In her book, Freda Utley
tells about meeting the late Bertha Spafford Vester in Jerusalem....
This wonderfully understanding, compassionate and courageous old lady
hails from Chicago, but she has spent more than forty years of her
life in Palestine, where her father founded the American Colony in
Jerusalem in 1881... Vester, whose husband died several years ago, has
carried on their joint work and now presides over the Spafford
Children’s Hospital situated above the Gate of Damascus and helped by
the Ford Fondation…
Several years ago [1950] Mrs. Vester wrote a book called Our Jerusalem
about her life with her husband in the Holy Land, published by
Doubleday Doran. Her final chapter, which gives an account of how the
Arabs have been deceived and cheated by the West, also of the crimes
committed by Israeli terrorists against the Arabs, was deleted by her
publishers from her book. She gave me a copy of this chapter, which
she had printed in a pamphlet form at her own expense. From her lips,
for the first time, I heard the terrible story of the Israeli massacre
of the inhabitants of the village of Deir Yaseen [in April 1948] which
caused thousands of Arabs to flee and become refugees in Jordan and
the Gaza Strip.
With tears in her eyes even after so long a time, Mrs. Vester told me
how the Irgun [Jewish terrorist] forces had rounded up the whole
population of this Arab village, machine-gunned the men and also many
women and children, and how, afterwards, loud speakers mounted on
jeeps or armored cars had paraded western Jerusalem warning the
inhabitants that, if they did not get out at once, they would suffer
the same fat as the people of Deir Yaseen.
“In my hospital,” she said, “I took in fifty babies under two years
old from the martyred village of Deir Yaseen.”
As she told me, and as she wrote in the expurgated chapter of her
book:
"While I was registering these babies and listening to the horrible
recital by the women of what they had been through, a small boy about
four years old stood by me. Seeing that I was not an Arab, he gave one
shriek and said, ‘Is she one of them?’ and fainted. I ran to get water
to revive the child but when I returned with the water, I found that
he was dead…."
She realized that the Jews who committed the atrocities she witnessed
had been brutalized, or driven into evil courses, by their own
treatment by the Nazis, or by the persecution they had suffered
elsewhere, and by their desperate situation in an Arab world rendered
implacably hostile by the partition of Palestine. She told me that
many Jews in Jerusalem were intimidated into supporting the terrorists
among them who in their treatment of the Arabs were emulating the
Nazis from whom they had escaped. One of her best nurses, a Jewish
woman, had telephoned to her while the Jews and Arabs were fighting
for possession of Jerusalem to say that she could no longer work in
the American Colony hospital. Mrs. Veser assured her that she had
nothing to fear from the Arabs, who trusted her completely after her
thirty years of service to them. But the Jewish nurse replied, “It is
not the Arabs I fear but my own people.”
In 1954 President Eisenhower received Mrs. Vester while she was
visiting Washington and had a long talk with her. It is not
inconceivable that her account of the tragic Israeli-Arab dispute
helped the President in his decision two years later to defy Zionist,
British and French pressures during the election campaign in November
1956.
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/11/
prominent American’s book
by PHILIP WEISS on November 21, 2011
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/11/
One of the ideological puzzles of the Ron Paul campaign is the fact
that the best line on Iran and Israel from any of the candidates, by
far, has come from an isolationist libertarian Republican from Texas.
And the most impressive president on the Israel-Palestine issue was
Dwight Eisenhower, who bucked the Israelis in Suez and insisted on the
right of return of refugees. (I know, Jimmy Carter is pretty good
too).
Recently a friend pointed me to the fact that the rightwing publisher
Regnery put out two books in the 1950s that had a more clear-eyed view
of the conflict than any American publications beside the work of anti-
Zionist rabbi Elmer Berger. Regnery published They are Human Too, a
wrenching book of pictures of the Palestinian refugees. And in 1957 it
published Freda Utley’s Will the Middle East Go West? [full text at
the link]. Steeped in national interest politics, and calling for the
two-state solution, the book also includes forthright descriptions of
Israeli crimes.
Bottom line: for whatever reason, cultural or political, American
rightwingers have done some of the best thinking on the Israel
Palestine issue; and resolving this conflict inside American life
means recovering some of their truths and working with them.
What a long introduction to my headline! In her book, Freda Utley
tells about meeting the late Bertha Spafford Vester in Jerusalem....
This wonderfully understanding, compassionate and courageous old lady
hails from Chicago, but she has spent more than forty years of her
life in Palestine, where her father founded the American Colony in
Jerusalem in 1881... Vester, whose husband died several years ago, has
carried on their joint work and now presides over the Spafford
Children’s Hospital situated above the Gate of Damascus and helped by
the Ford Fondation…
Several years ago [1950] Mrs. Vester wrote a book called Our Jerusalem
about her life with her husband in the Holy Land, published by
Doubleday Doran. Her final chapter, which gives an account of how the
Arabs have been deceived and cheated by the West, also of the crimes
committed by Israeli terrorists against the Arabs, was deleted by her
publishers from her book. She gave me a copy of this chapter, which
she had printed in a pamphlet form at her own expense. From her lips,
for the first time, I heard the terrible story of the Israeli massacre
of the inhabitants of the village of Deir Yaseen [in April 1948] which
caused thousands of Arabs to flee and become refugees in Jordan and
the Gaza Strip.
With tears in her eyes even after so long a time, Mrs. Vester told me
how the Irgun [Jewish terrorist] forces had rounded up the whole
population of this Arab village, machine-gunned the men and also many
women and children, and how, afterwards, loud speakers mounted on
jeeps or armored cars had paraded western Jerusalem warning the
inhabitants that, if they did not get out at once, they would suffer
the same fat as the people of Deir Yaseen.
“In my hospital,” she said, “I took in fifty babies under two years
old from the martyred village of Deir Yaseen.”
As she told me, and as she wrote in the expurgated chapter of her
book:
"While I was registering these babies and listening to the horrible
recital by the women of what they had been through, a small boy about
four years old stood by me. Seeing that I was not an Arab, he gave one
shriek and said, ‘Is she one of them?’ and fainted. I ran to get water
to revive the child but when I returned with the water, I found that
he was dead…."
She realized that the Jews who committed the atrocities she witnessed
had been brutalized, or driven into evil courses, by their own
treatment by the Nazis, or by the persecution they had suffered
elsewhere, and by their desperate situation in an Arab world rendered
implacably hostile by the partition of Palestine. She told me that
many Jews in Jerusalem were intimidated into supporting the terrorists
among them who in their treatment of the Arabs were emulating the
Nazis from whom they had escaped. One of her best nurses, a Jewish
woman, had telephoned to her while the Jews and Arabs were fighting
for possession of Jerusalem to say that she could no longer work in
the American Colony hospital. Mrs. Veser assured her that she had
nothing to fear from the Arabs, who trusted her completely after her
thirty years of service to them. But the Jewish nurse replied, “It is
not the Arabs I fear but my own people.”
In 1954 President Eisenhower received Mrs. Vester while she was
visiting Washington and had a long talk with her. It is not
inconceivable that her account of the tragic Israeli-Arab dispute
helped the President in his decision two years later to defy Zionist,
British and French pressures during the election campaign in November
1956.
http://mondoweiss.net/2011/11/
"Morrissey Breen" <morriss...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:8215b701-18bf-452d-
a505-85770f6ccac1@p7g2000pre.
has gone halfway across the world and further over the past fifty
years.
The original "massacre lie" has been embellished upon
with additional false accusations, and then recirculated by
an array of harsh critics of Israel and careless historians,
the Deir Yassin lie has taken on a life of its own, making its way
into authoritative texts such as encyclopedias, where it is being
passed on
to the next generation as established fact.
The truth has struggled to catch up, but, step by step,
it has gained ground.
First there was the Israeli judicial ruling in 1952,
an official recognition,
by the very parties that had charged massacre, that the battle was,
in fact, a legitimate military operation against enemy armed forces.
Then came the Israeli Labor government's 1960 pamphlet
describing Deir Yassin without any reference to the supposed
massacre.
Next, the Labor government's 1969 reversal,
acknowledging the errors that Labor officials had made in 1948
and officially clearing the Jewish fighters
of the charge that they committed atrocities.
Finally, in 1987, the Bir Zeit University study--Arab researchers
confirming that one of the central claims of the accusers,
the death toll of 254, was a wild and reckless exaggeration.
Taken together, these developments and revelations have exposed,
once and for all, the lie of the Deir Yassin "massacre."
news:8215b701-18bf-452d-
a505-85770f6ccac1@p7g2000pre.
> In 1950, Doubleday censored frank account of Deir Yassin massacre from
> prominent American’s book
> by PHILIP WEISS on November 21, 2011
> http://mondoweiss.net/2011/11/
The lie that Jewish fighters massacred Arab civilians in Deir Yassin> prominent American’s book
> by PHILIP WEISS on November 21, 2011
> http://mondoweiss.net/2011/11/
has gone halfway across the world and further over the past fifty
years.
The original "massacre lie" has been embellished upon
with additional false accusations, and then recirculated by
an array of harsh critics of Israel and careless historians,
the Deir Yassin lie has taken on a life of its own, making its way
into authoritative texts such as encyclopedias, where it is being
passed on
to the next generation as established fact.
The truth has struggled to catch up, but, step by step,
it has gained ground.
First there was the Israeli judicial ruling in 1952,
an official recognition,
by the very parties that had charged massacre, that the battle was,
in fact, a legitimate military operation against enemy armed forces.
Then came the Israeli Labor government's 1960 pamphlet
describing Deir Yassin without any reference to the supposed
massacre.
Next, the Labor government's 1969 reversal,
acknowledging the errors that Labor officials had made in 1948
and officially clearing the Jewish fighters
of the charge that they committed atrocities.
Finally, in 1987, the Bir Zeit University study--Arab researchers
confirming that one of the central claims of the accusers,
the death toll of 254, was a wild and reckless exaggeration.
Taken together, these developments and revelations have exposed,
once and for all, the lie of the Deir Yassin "massacre."
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On Nov 23, 2:28 am, Zev <zev_h...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Morrissey Breen" <morrisseybr...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:8215b701-18bf-452d-
> a505-85770f6cc...@p7g2000pre.
Shame on you, Zev. Is there nothing that the Israeli government or its
agents do that you will not defend?
I note that you dignify these merciless terrorists with the title of
"fighters".
Shame on you.
> "Morrissey Breen" <morrisseybr...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:8215b701-18bf-452d-
> a505-85770f6cc...@p7g2000pre.
>
> > In 1950, Doubleday censored frank account of Deir Yassin massacre from
> > prominent American’s book
> > by PHILIP WEISS on November 21, 2011
> >http://mondoweiss.net/2011/> > In 1950, Doubleday censored frank account of Deir Yassin massacre from
> > prominent American’s book
> > by PHILIP WEISS on November 21, 2011
>
> The lie that Jewish fighters massacred Arab civilians in Deir Yassin
...<Snip apologetics for massacre of civilians>...> The lie that Jewish fighters massacred Arab civilians in Deir Yassin
Shame on you, Zev. Is there nothing that the Israeli government or its
agents do that you will not defend?
I note that you dignify these merciless terrorists with the title of
"fighters".
Shame on you.
"Mo" <morriss...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:a419b2af-
c18d-42cb-8b23-98962879a474@
Shame on you for ignoring more recent research,
by Arabs themselves, and reaching back 60 years to repeat lies
which, at the time, were believed by many, even in Israel.
The odd thing about this is that the source of the lies
appears to be more British
(Richard C. Catling, Assistant Inspector General of
the Mandatory regime's Criminal Investigation Division,
who hated Jews and admitted to "coaxing" Arab witnesses)
and Jewish (for political reasons) than Arab
(although decades later, some Arab witnesses
admitted they were told to lie,
in order to force Arab nations to intervene).
If you change your mind and decide to actually learn something
about Deir Yassin, you may find the following link interesting:
http://www.peacefaq.com/
news:a419b2af-
c18d-42cb-8b23-98962879a474@
- show quoted text -
by Arabs themselves, and reaching back 60 years to repeat lies
which, at the time, were believed by many, even in Israel.
The odd thing about this is that the source of the lies
appears to be more British
(Richard C. Catling, Assistant Inspector General of
the Mandatory regime's Criminal Investigation Division,
who hated Jews and admitted to "coaxing" Arab witnesses)
and Jewish (for political reasons) than Arab
(although decades later, some Arab witnesses
admitted they were told to lie,
in order to force Arab nations to intervene).
If you change your mind and decide to actually learn something
about Deir Yassin, you may find the following link interesting:
http://www.peacefaq.com/
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