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Thread #57865 Message #914567
Posted By: CarolC
20-Mar-03 - 11:35 AM
Thread Name: Obit: Peaceful protestor killed by bulldozer
Subject: RE: Obit: Peaceful protestor killed by bulldozer
Fair questions, Janice in NJ. Some of my answers to your questions are in this thread (that I also linked to above), especially some of your questions about who started the aggression back in the early days of Israel. This thread would be a good start for you while I work on gathering the rest of the information I need to fully answer your questions:
http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=56679&messages
Keep in mind that Jewish and Arab Palestinians were living in relative peace before the European Zionists started settling in that area. And the "Palestinians" did at that time commit some atrocities
such as the one you mention. But from your words, I gather you have not heard of the "Nakba" or of the many Palestinian villiages such as Deir Yassin that were brutalized, emptied, and some even slaughtered in cold blood by the European settlers during that same time period. I'll start working on the documentation later today.
Here are a couple to start you off with:
Dier Yassin Remembered
A link to the above site can be found in this site, which is maintained by people who describe themselves as Israeli Zionists:
Coming to Terms with Deir Yassin (by) Ami Isseroff