🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Apr14.052115.24889@ennews.eas.asu.edu> makowsky@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (David Makowsky) writes:
>   # >   # 2.  After the populace fled, any farmers etc returning to their lands
>   # >  # were arrested or shot.
>
>   # >	   At least you admit that many fled, and were not forced.  Almost
>   # >   none were shot when they did not instigate, and when they were shot,
>   # >   there was substantial reason to believe there was a threat.  I do not
>   # >   know of any that were arrested, but some were deported (is that what
>   # >   you mean by arrested?).
>
>   # Many were forced to flee.
>
>	   This was a small percentage of those that fled.

This is nonsense.  People don't flee just on a whim.  They flee from
something.  In this case, from the Jewish attacks.  Even an IDF report
of the time estimated that about two-thirds of the Arab population
that fled did so as a direct result of the attacks by the Jews.

>   # Many were shot when they tried to harvest
>   # the crops from their own land.  Does that count as instigation?
>
>	   Nope (to both the question and the statement).  Some were
>   deported, those that were shot either commited acts of violence, or
>   else gave good reason to believe they were going to.

This is a brutal form of justice, when those suspected of perhaps
being violent in the future are shot in advance.  Some of the
Holocaust was justified in this manner.

>   # Most [Arab] villages [that were demolished by the Jews in 1948] were
>   # dynamited after they were abandoned by the Arabs, and thus presented
>   # no more danger to the Israelis.
>
>	   But they would have been a danger had they remained and the Arabs
>   came back to them.

Nonsense.  Some of these Arab villages lived in harmony with the Jews
for decades.  Again, this was a brutal form of justice, the demolition
of whole villages based on suspicion of future crimes, and delineated
by racism.


--
=Jim  jime%atc.ll.mit.edu (Jim Eggert)