Today In Labor History April 9, 1948: The Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary slaughtered over 100 Palestinians in the Deir Yassin massacre, near Jerusalem. Many of the victims were women and children. Rape and mutilation were also alleged. It was part of the Nakba and expulsion of Palestinians from Palestine. As news of the massacre spread, it sparked terror among Palestinians throughout the region, convincing many to flee their homes. It also strengthened the resolve of Arab governments to attack, which they did a few weeks later, sparking the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. Menachim Begin was leader of the Irgun at the time. He went on to found the Likud Party and he became prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983. Many Arab states produced postage stamps commemorating the massacre. All of them use the image of a map of Palestine with a bloody dagger thrust into it.
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"I argue that early Zionist thinkers were really aware of what the Ottoman state was doing to the #Armenians and that they saw in that a kind of available set of laws and ideas that they could then translate into their setting."
Keith David Watenpaugh discusses his essay in the Journal of #Genocide Research, "The Pomegranate and the Orange," which examines the parallels between the #ArmenianGenocide and the #Nakba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk-dkMnXyqM
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RE: https://mastodon.world/@Fou_ad/116345562313994168
Je pense qu'il faudrait toujours mentionner le nombre total de tués depuis le dernier soi-disant cessez-le-feu, mais aussi depuis le 7 octobre 2023 et une autre estimation depuis 1948 (et peut-être avant).
Juste pour garder le contexte entier à l'esprit.
I think the there should always be mentioned the total number of killed since the whatever the last ceasfire is but also since Oct 7th 2023 and another estimate since 1948 (and perhaps before).
Just to keep the whole context in mind.
Filme sobre a Palestina denuncia genocÃdio em Gaza e expõe violência ‘transmitida ao vivo’