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The Searing Deir Yassin Story
On Tuesday, April 9, as in past years, the Zochrot group will be commemorating 65 years since the Dayr Yassin massacre. Carrying signs bearing the names of the victims of the massacre, they will be walking along Kanfei Nesharim Street, what they mistakenly claim was the main street of the village, to the Kfar Shaul mental hospital, whose buildings were once the core of the village. They will stop at the remains of the Palestinian cemetery and end the tour in the grove behind the hospital. The tour starts at Kanfei Nesharim 24 (near the branch of the Mercantile Bank), Jerusalem, at 16:00, and will end at 18:00.
The recipient of many hundreds of thousands of shekels from such groups as the Mennonite Central Committee, the Belgian Broederlijk Delen, the French CCFD, the British Oxfam, the IrishTrócaire, the German MISEREOR, the Swiss HEKS-EPER and the Dutch ICCO, Zochrot is one of the more blatant examples of multi-national-supported democracy subversion operations.
The events surrounding Deir Yassin have seared the memories and the historical consciousness of millions. Did Jews rip open the bellies of pregnant Arab women? Did they rape Arab girls? Did they invade a pacific, pastoral village? Or was something quite wrong in the narrative foisted upon a public unfamiliar with the history of the Mandate of Palestine since 1920 – and earlier – and the specific period that began already in the summer of 1947 when the Arabs in and without the Mandate territory realized a Jewish state was to be declared.......
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The Searing Deir Yassin Story
On Tuesday, April 9, as in past years, the Zochrot group will be commemorating 65 years since the Dayr Yassin massacre. Carrying signs bearing the names of the victims of the massacre, they will be walking along Kanfei Nesharim Street, what they mistakenly claim was the main street of the village, to the Kfar Shaul mental hospital, whose buildings were once the core of the village. They will stop at the remains of the Palestinian cemetery and end the tour in the grove behind the hospital. The tour starts at Kanfei Nesharim 24 (near the branch of the Mercantile Bank), Jerusalem, at 16:00, and will end at 18:00.
The recipient of many hundreds of thousands of shekels from such groups as the Mennonite Central Committee, the Belgian Broederlijk Delen, the French CCFD, the British Oxfam, the IrishTrócaire, the German MISEREOR, the Swiss HEKS-EPER and the Dutch ICCO, Zochrot is one of the more blatant examples of multi-national-supported democracy subversion operations.
The events surrounding Deir Yassin have seared the memories and the historical consciousness of millions. Did Jews rip open the bellies of pregnant Arab women? Did they rape Arab girls? Did they invade a pacific, pastoral village? Or was something quite wrong in the narrative foisted upon a public unfamiliar with the history of the Mandate of Palestine since 1920 – and earlier – and the specific period that began already in the summer of 1947 when the Arabs in and without the Mandate territory realized a Jewish state was to be declared.......
Please read through the entire article and associated material before discussing......