The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #158999   Message #3769545
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
31-Jan-16 - 05:43 AM
Thread Name: BS: Terrorism, Again (Israel)
Subject: RE: BS: Terrorism, Again (Israel)
Jim, massacres were committed by both sides in 1948.
I acknowledge now and have never denied that some Jews committed vile crimes at that time.
Morris

You claim recent massacres and atrocities.
Israel denies them, and no unequivocal evidence for them has been provided.

Do not just deny that without reminding us what it is.

You keep demanding that we respond to the work of Benny Morris.

He says,
"There was no Zionist 'plan' or blanket policy of evicting the Arab population, or of 'ethnic cleansing'" and "the demonisation of Israel is largely based on lies—much as the demonisation of the Jews during the past 2,000 years has been based on lies."

He says,
"These are small war crimes. All told, if we take all the massacres and all the executions of 1948, we come to about 800 who were killed. In comparison to the massacres that were perpetrated in Bosnia, that's peanuts. In comparison to the massacres the Russians perpetrated against the Germans at Stalingrad, that's chicken feed. When you take into account that there was a bloody civil war here and that we lost an entire 1 percent of the population, you find that we behaved very well."