Today marks 78 years since the massacre of Deir Yassin, an atrocity that came to define the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 to establish the state of Israel on stolen Palestinian land.
a nation built on genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Quoting Uzi Baram: Ben-Gurion, Father of the Nakba? This weighed on him greatly
Baram acknowledges the historical reality of the #Nakba, but he also attempts to reclaim Ben-Gurion's legacy from those who would use it to justify current policies of displacement. He argues that Ben-Gurion, while not without responsibility for the events of 1948, viewed the Nakba as a problem for #Israel, both politically and morally. He cites historical examples of Ben-Gurion's attempts to mitigate the consequences of the displacement, such as his consideration of returning Palestinian refugees.
[…] Ben-Gurion held a consultation with the political leadership (Golda Meir) and with the agency leadership (Moshe Sharett) and said: "We did not expel Arabs from the Land of Israel. First of all, it is necessary to tell the facts how they fled. To the extent that it was known to me, most of the fleeing did so before the establishment of the state. Only the Arabs of Ramle and Lod left their place or were pressured to leave." In this context, Tom Segev writes in his book "A State at Any Cost" that Ben-Gurion was careful to say in the case of the Arabs of Lod-Ramle that "explicit instructions were given not to expel the residents and it turned out that they were forced."
Uzi Baram is a former Israeli politician who served in the Knesset from 1977 to 2001 and as Minister of Tourism and Minister of Internal Affairs in the 1990s.
Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/2025-02-18/ty-article-opinion/.premium/00000195-13e4-d0af-a197-dbf53a8b0000 or https://archive.is/PcFhN
Interesting defense of Ben-Gurion's legacy. However, critics would undoubtedly argue that the act of fleeing, as occurred after the Deir Yassin massacre, is functionally equivalent to the expulsion of people at gunpoint. The practical consequences and the established status quo have consistently favored Israel, to the disadvantage of the Palestinians.
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En ce 9 avril, rappelons-nous de l’un des épisodes les plus violents de l’occupation de La Palestine par les sionistes européens, et qui constituera le modèle de la #Nakba :
Le massacre de Deir Yassine, le 9 avril 1948 #DeirYassinMassacre /1
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