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17.01.06, 08:12
No i wyszlo szydlo z worka. Palestynczycy ktorzt zyja w Palestynie od
kilkudziesieciu pokolen nie sa u siebie, oni sa u Dany ktora jak wiekszosc
zydow urodzila sie na drugim koncu swiata i zdecydowala sie przyjechac na
podboj i okupacje Palestyny.
To dopiero Dana ruszyla kiepela zeby cos tak absurdalnego wymyslic !!!
In Clear Sight Of Yad Vashem
By Paul Eisen
1-16-6
Over the years, our attention has been drawn to the close proximity of the
village of Deir Yassin to the Jewish Holocaust memorial at Yad Vashem. Jews
have been encouraged to visit Deir Yassin, the symbolic starting point of
nearly six decades of Palestinian dispossession, and from there to look
across to Yad Vashem. Palestinians (if only they could!) have also been asked
to visit Yad Vashem - the symbol of Jewish suffering - and to look across the
valley toward the birth site of their own tragedy.
Everybody was happy. Jews of conscience were of course pleased to see Jewish
suffering again at the centre of the discourse but also happy to extend their
narrative of suffering to include Palestinians. Palestinians were perhaps
less pleased at having - yet again - to acknowledge Jewish suffering in order
to help achieve their own liberation, but they recognized the importance of
the publicity that the link between Deir Yassin and Yad Vashem brought to
their cause.
Of course, one had to be careful. As is so often the case with these things,
there was always a but. After all, who in their right mind would compare the
massacre of a hundred Palestinians at Deir Yassin with the industrial-scale
slaughter of six million Jews? And who would dare draw comparison the 1948
expulsion of over 750,000 Palestinians to the near-successful attempt at
physically exterminating every last Jewish man, women and child in Europe?
Both atrocities have seen their fair share of deniers over the years. Many
Zionists, either with conscious intent or out of ignorance, have denied Deir
Yassin. "There was no massacre at Deir Yassin," they say; "It was simply a
battle - a battle that the Palestinians lost. These things happen in war and
anyway, they did the same to us." Also, "No, the Palestinians were not
expelled; they ran away, and anyway, they didn't love the land as we love the
land - just look how neglected it was until we came along to make the desert
bloom."
The Holocaust too has come under assault. Over the last fifty years,
revisionist scholars have amassed a formidable body of substantial evidence,
which runs in direct opposition to the traditional Holocaust
narrative. "Where is the evidence," they say, "for this alleged gargantuan
mass-murder? Where are the documents? Where are the traces and remains? Where
are the weapons of murder?" These revisionists all acknowledge of course,
that there was a terrible assault on Jews on the part of the National
Socialist government, but disagree as to the scale, motive, and methods cited
in the typical narrative, a narrative that most of us choose or are obliged
to accept. "What befell the Jews", they say, "was a brutal ethnic cleansing
accompanied by dispossession, pillage and massacre."
A brutal ethnic cleansing accompanied by dispossession, pillage and massacre
terms surely familiar to any Palestinian.
But no matter how similar the Jewish and Palestinian histories of suffering
may seem, the similarities conceal important differences:
First, by all accounts, and according to any version of the events, what was
done to the Jews of Europe took place a long distance from Yad Vashem, while
what was done to the Palestinian people took place right there at the village
of Deir Yassin and right there throughout the whole of Palestine.
Second, the perpetrators of the atrocity against Jews had nothing to do with
Palestine or Palestinians, while perpetrators of the Palestinian tragedy were
and are Jews.
Third, the perpetrators of the atrocity against Jews have been roundly
condemned over the years and punished for their crimes, and have mostly shown
contrition, while the perpetrators of the massacre at Deir Yassin have been
honored for their crimes, continue to take pride in them, and live on in
their ideology and in their deeds.
Fourth, what befell the Jews had a beginning, a middle, and an end, while the
assault on the Palestinians goes on with no end in sight.
And one final difference: If the living evidence for the veracity of the
Holocaust narrative is a safe, secure and empowered Jewish people, at home
wherever they may be, the living evidence for the veracity of Deir Yassin and
the Nakba is a Palestinian people dispossessed and exiled and longing to go
home.
Paul Eisen, Director
Deir Yassin Remembered
paul@eisen.demon.co.uk
