Israeli “Atrocities” and the 1948 War
One new book debunks the nakba myth; another perpetuates it.
November 29, 2017
Israeli “Atrocities” and the 1948 War
One new book debunks the nakba myth; another perpetuates it.
Reviewing two recent Hebrew books on the fate of Arab civilians during Israel’s War of Independence, Arnon Groiss dissects some of the myths about what Palestinians call the nakba, or catastrophe. One book, by Eliezer Tauber, examines the April 1948 battle of Deir Yassin, widely remembered as the site of an atrocity committed by the Irgun and another right-wing Zionist militia known as Leḥi. While there is little doubt that Jewish fighters killed civilians, including women and children, Tauber contends that the accepted story about this battle is radically incorrect:
November 29, 2017
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