Sunday, April 5, 2009

Deir Yassin massacre

In history, during war time, it is common to have "casualties of war" but some of these casualties are the result of the abuse of power from the soldiers against communities and neighborhoods that are pacific and they are not involved in the armed conflict. In other words, soldiers take the upper hand in the advantage of carrying a gun. The atrocities committed during war or turmoil sometimes are guarded very secretly, so people out of the area would not know what incident had happen.
In many cases presented during the History of Modern Middle East we have seen all of the massacres, genocide, killings and eradication of human being with complete disregard of justice.
First, the Armenian genocide that happen between 1915 and 1923 killing about 1.5 million Armenians in the hand of the Turkish army. Incident that have been denied by Turks for 90 or so years and it is still refused by them. In Germany the Holocaust, this incident was carried on by Adolph Hitler an army general that was known for his determination and aspirations of world dominance, and extermination of the weak race.
Now, in Deir Yassin village about 750 Palestinian residents were killed with no reason or motive.
Ironically one month prior to the massacre the residents of the village had signed a pact of non-aggression with a neighboring Jewish village of Givat Sha'ul. But the intervention of the people from the Jewish village avoid the execution of the remaining people in the Deir Yassin village. The massacre took place in April 9, 1948, almost 51 years ago, it seems that when Jewish communities were killed in German hands and concentration campus, Jewish were likewise were killing Palestinians occupying their territory and displacing them in order to have more land to settle their communities.
The cemetery, where Palestinian people is buried, has no entrance, no importance because the cemetery is not Jewish. People can pass by and do not even know there is a cemetery.
This attack that started only to take control of the village is another part of history that from the 1900 to 1950 it seems that mass killings where a good idea for dominance and extermination of the enemy. A good idea for expansion of territory, show power to potential enemies, and very effective to drive people out of their homes.
Now Arabs have to suffer an occupation from people that do not have a home or place to go. These people,Jewish, now claim independence along the way and intentions to form a state.They are forcing people out of their land and homes violating their rights and by force to reconstruct their homes in someone else land.
IS THIS CORRECT???

1 comment:

  1. No that is not right because they are taking away peoples human rights. The Israelis feel threatened by everything that is occurring in the Middle East and are willing to do anything to keep their land safe.

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