Seeds of Palestinian hatred!

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How can these monsters be Gods children???

Peace & Love

Namaste,

Rita

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Namaste All,

 

To uninformed Americans, Begin was going to clear 400 Palestinian

villages, to help form the Israeli State, the facts speak for

themselves. You can also search under Deir Yassin...

Action and then reaction.

By Amira Huweidy

 

Few survived the massacre of Deir Yassin 50 years ago, and of them,

even

fewer are alive today to recount its horrors. Amira Howeidy reviews

the

carnage through their words

 

Despite controversy over the exact number of those slain in the Deir

Yassin massacre,

the length of time their murder took and the strategic significance

of

the location of the

village, the survivors' accounts unanimously agree in their

descriptions of the atrocities

committed by the Jewish gangs begining around daybreak on Friday 9

April 1948, and lasting until dusk.

 

Abu Mahmoud (1) was 21 when the massacre took place. He and his young

friends "were ready for whatever

might happen after the battle of Kastel." A day earlier the leader of

the Palestinian guerrilla, Abdul-Qader

El-Husseini, had been seriously wounded at Al-Qastal. Residents of

the

neighboring town of Deir Yassin were

alarmed. "By 4.30 pm on Thursday 8 April, El-Husseini was dead. We

were watching the battle from a distance.

After his death we took precautionary measures in case anything

happened: we guarded the village until 2.30 the

next morning when the Jews began to enter using spot and search

lights

to look for our fighters. The Jews closed in

on the village, exchanging fire with us as they came." Mahmoud Kassem

El-Yassini (2) who witnessed the massacre

at age 15, clearly remembered that the village had actually been

surrounded since the night before. His mother was

in labour, "we could not get to a hospital because the village was

under siege and there was no way out by night. At

four o'clock on the morning of Friday 9 April, we heard shots coming

from all directions. Then people started

screaming: "The Jews have taken us," and "The Jews are taking hold of

Deir Yassin."

 

In the whole village, he says, there were "40 British-made guns...

and

no mortar of any kind." By contrast, Abu

Mahmoud points out, "The Jews had all sorts of automatic weapons,

tanks, missiles, cannons."

 

"Once they entered the village, fighting became very heavy on the

eastern side, and later it spread to other parts, to

the quarry and the village centre, until it reached the western edge.

The battle was on three fronts: East, South and

North," Abu Mahmoud recounts. The Western front, following the

pattern

of phase 1 of Plan Dalet (3), was open

for survivors to escape and tell others of the horrors they had seen

with their own eyes.

 

The fighting, says Abu Mahmoud, continued till around 3.30 in the

afternoon. Most survivors describe what

happened during the preceding 12 to 14 hours as "indiscriminate"

killing. "They used to enter houses and kill women

and children indiscriminately," Mahmoud for one recounts.

 

"I saw how Hilweh Zeidan was killed, along with her husband, her son,

her brother and Khumayyes. Hilweh Zeidan

went out to collect the body of her husband. They shot her and she

fell over his body... I also saw Hayat Bilbeissi, a

nurse from Jerusalem who was serving in the village, as she was shot

before the door of Musa Hassan's house. The

daughter of Abu El-Abed was shot dead as she held her baby niece. The

baby was shot too... Whoever tried to run

away was shot dead," says Um Mohammed (4), 64, who was fifteen when

the events took place.

 

El-Yassini tells of horrific details. "Everything seemed strange.

There was blood everywhere. A dead woman

holding her baby reminded me of my mother, so I dashed to our house.

I

found my mother hiding in fear in the

basement and when she saw me she cried and started screaming. She

told

me to go to my uncle's house next door

through a hole in the wall to make sure that the rest of the family

was still alive. When I peered through the hole, I

saw horror. I could see traces of blood all over the place. All that

I

could see was blood. I knew that they had all

been massacred... I had lost my uncles Youssef and Mohammed Hamida."

 

Rape, mutilation and humiliation were the norm. Says El-Yassini,

"there were [corpses of] women lying in houses

with their skirts torn up to their waists and their legs wide apart;

children with their throats cut open, rows of young

men shot in the back after being lined up at an execution wall. There

were even bodies of babies." Moreover, "some

had vivid crimson or black scars down the left side of their throats.

One of the women held a tiny baby against her

body. The bullet had passed through her breast and killed the baby.

Someone had slit open her stomach, cutting

sideways and then upwards, perhaps trying to kill her unborn child.

Her eyes were wide open, her dark face frozen

in horror."

 

The number of the victims of the Deir Yassin massacre remains

controversial. Most

researchers, following a statement given to the press by Mordechai

Ra'anan (the then

Irgun Zvai Leumi commander for Jerusalem, and commander of the Deir

Yassin

operation), use the figure 254. That same figure was confirmed by The

254 figure

appears in almost every account of the massacre at the time it

occured. Sources

endorsing that figure include: the Jewish Agency, a Red Cross

official, the New York

Times and Dr Hussein Al-Khalidi, spokesman of the Jersualem-based

Arab

Higher

Committee. However, this figure has been periodically contested,

mainly by extreme

right wing Zionist researchers. They claim that the figure cannot be

more than 120-140.

Yet whatever sources we adopt, it remains an undisputed fact that the

number of

victims was immense and horrified the survivors. El-Yassini recalls,

"I remember hearing

a Jewish terrorist who was touring the village and reporting the

massacre, saying,

'Minus 15 Arabs. Minus 60 Arabs.' After a while his message on the

radio to

headquarters became: 'It's difficult to count.'" Fifteen-year-old

El-Yassini did not count,

but "came across the evidence of widespread murder. Dozens of bodies

of men littered

the streets... Down an alleyway, no more than 50 yards from our

house,

there lay a pile of corpses. There were

more than a dozen young men whose arms and legs were wrapped around

each other in the agony of death. All had

been shot at point-blank range through the cheek, the bullet tearing

away a line of flesh up to the ear before entering

the brain... We found out later that whole families were killed. I

heard that the Zahran clan lost 40 men, women and

children. They were the first family in Deir Yassin to be slaughtered

by the Jewish terrorists."

 

Despite the complete destruction of the village, which was now firmly

under Jewish control, the killing frenzy

continued unabated. According to Abu Yousef (5) who was 21, "after

the

battle, the Jews took elderly men and

women and youths, including four of my cousins and a nephew. They

took

them all. Women who had on them gold

and money were stripped of their gold. After the Jews had removed

their dead and wounded, they took the men to

the quarry and sprayed them all with bullets... One woman saw her son

taken some 40 to 60 metres away from

where she and the rest of the women stood, and shot dead. Then they

brought Jewish kids to throw stones at his

body. Then, they poured kerosene over his body and set it ablaze,

while the women watched from a distance."

 

"Later, we collected together and checked who was missing. We were

brought to Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem by the

Arab Higher Committee. Each of us was looking for a son, a daughter,

a

sister or a mother."

 

"The elderly men were told to remove the dead, both Arabs and Jews.

They took the bodies of the Jews and left

the Arab bodies; later they were thrown down a well in the village

centre."

 

Abu Mahmoud makes a similar account. "They took about 40 prisoners

from the village. After the battle was over,

they took them to the quarry where they shot them dead and threw

their

bodies into the quarry. After they had

removed their dead and wounded, they took the prisoners and killed

them."

 

Although the survivors of Deir Yassin were given shelter in the

Al-Aqsa mosque, they were still not safe. "I saw

many Jewish assailants targeting the Dome of the Rock with mortar

bombs" says El-Yassini. "After a while, we had

to go to the village of Abu Dies, because in Jerusalem we were

constantly under a <

 

Om Namah Sivaya Tony.

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In a message dated 10/16/2000 5:34:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

kvy9 writes:

 

<< What is worse, there is evidence that even the IQ of children is improved

by learning skills like playing music and taking care of animals but these

facts are ignored... Alas, for ages, society has been "skillfully" programmed

to reproduce itself and all its horrors...

 

Love,

Jan >>

 

We have a beautiful school here in the country, where children learn

mathematics with art, and play instruments, and take care of the animals

which run around the school yard. Slowly, slowly catches the monkey ...

 

Love and Light,

Annette

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Namaste All,

 

We are all Gods Children, for we are all God. Many Israelis have

written on this subject also, to be fair, like Guy Erlich Ha'ir and

he

has exposed numerous other massacres, and the myth that the

Palestinians left voluntarily.

 

So perhaps the US may take a balanced view on this--some hope.

 

Om Namah Sivaya Tony.

 

 

 

, Namaste2uOm@a... wrote:

> How can these monsters be Gods children???

> Peace & Love

> Namaste,

> Rita

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On 10/16/00 at 3:10 PM Namaste2uOm wrote:

 

ºHow can these monsters be Gods children???

º Peace & Love

º Namaste,

º Rita

 

 

There isn't a people on earth without a history of atrocity and bloodshed... But

also, there isn't a people without some sort of record regarding resistance to

those destructive tendencies. And institutionalized religion often did play a

role - a people appointing itself as "children of God" or "chosen" implicitly

declares itself to be superior - the seed of racism. So any other people can be

put into the class of "primitive heathens" and history abounds with the sad

examples of this madness.

 

The only remedy is in bringing up and educating children in an ambiance of love,

surrender and devotion, typical properties of all domesticated "social"

mammals... But sadly, the receptivity of children is swamped with the "dead"

past and other "memory filling", although it can be shown nothing is learned

from it - Tibet, Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, it all happened after the horrors of WW

II and this list will be continued.... What is worse, there is evidence that

even the IQ of children is improved by learning skills like playing music and

taking care of animals but these facts are ignored... Alas, for ages, society

has been "skillfully" programmed to reproduce itself and all its horrors...

 

Love,

Jan

[Guest guest]

Thank you Jan for your excellent post... lends to

"Right-thought=Right-action."

Love, Robert

 

 

jb [kvy9]

Monday, October 16, 2000 4:25 PM

Re: Seeds of Palestinian hatred!

 

On 10/16/00 at 3:10 PM Namaste2uOm wrote:

 

ºHow can these monsters be Gods children???

º Peace & Love

º Namaste,

º Rita

 

 

There isn't a people on earth without a history of atrocity and bloodshed...

But also, there isn't a people without some sort of record regarding

resistance to those destructive tendencies. And institutionalized religion

often did play a role - a people appointing itself as "children of God" or

"chosen" implicitly declares itself to be superior - the seed of racism. So

any other people can be put into the class of "primitive heathens" and

history abounds with the sad examples of this madness.

 

The only remedy is in bringing up and educating children in an ambiance of

love, surrender and devotion, typical properties of all domesticated

"social" mammals... But sadly, the receptivity of children is swamped with

the "dead" past and other "memory filling", although it can be shown nothing

is learned from it - Tibet, Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, it all happened after

the horrors of WW II and this list will be continued.... What is worse,

there is evidence that even the IQ of children is improved by learning

skills like playing music and taking care of animals but these facts are

ignored... Alas, for ages, society has been "skillfully" programmed to

reproduce itself and all its horrors...

 

Love,

Jan

 

 

 

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On 10/16/00 at 5:23 PM Skyeryder wrote:

 

ºThank you Jan for your excellent post... lends to

º"Right-thought=Right-action."

ºLove, Robert

 

You're welcome Robert - apparently synchronicity is at play, as to another list

I wrote:

 

"it would be nice if nonduality would be perceived as "just" a clever way to

lasting happiness - doing away with all the "classical" stuff. I don't think the

idea that nonduality is a matter for 40+ is justified - it is a sad result of

de-conditioning too late. A youth is more receptive and less conditioned than a

grown up - that much can be learnt from a lot of "spontaneous" realizations at a

young age."

 

Love,

Jan

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Namaste2uOm wrote:

> How can these monsters be Gods children???

> Peace & Love

> Namaste,

> Rita

>

 

This is the question

that sows the seed of it's own

answer in blood

again and again

since the beginning of man.

 

Mace

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that`s sad!!!