The Lebanese Prime Minister Came to the U.S. to Do PR for Hizballah
Saad Hariri wants to turn American troops into human shields for terrorists.
August 7, 2017
A New Book Argues That a Massacre Never Happened at Deir Yassin
Shattering a myth of the 1948 war.
In April 1948, the Irgun and Leḥi—two right-wing Jewish militia groups cooperating with but separate from the Haganah—planned an attack on the Arab village of Deir Yassin, which occupied a strategic location west of Jerusalem. The battle has long been remembered by both Israelis and Palestinians as a shameful case of Jewish fighters deliberately slaughtering some 100 defenseless Arabs, most of them civilians. In a new (Hebrew-language) book, Eliezer Tauber disputes this account, showing that the Jewish commanders made plans to avoid civilian casualties and insure the proper treatment of prisoners; only when poorly trained soldiers and officers made repeated mistakes did things go terribly awry, although even then there was no civilian massacre. Ofer Regev writes in his review:
August 7, 2017
A New Book Argues That a Massacre Never Happened at Deir Yassin
Shattering a myth of the 1948 war.
Does the Defeat of Islamic State Mean Victory for Iran and Russia?
A reinvigorated NATO must find a way to respond.
Lessons from the Case of Charlie Gard
Was his life worth living?
China’s Forgotten Plan to Resettle Jewish Refugees from the Third Reich
To help Jews, and to gain Western sympathy.