Forget Deir Yassin; Its Victims Were “Unworthy”
By Daniel McGowan / Dissident Voice / April 11th, 2011
Sixty three years ago today Palestinian civilians were massacred at Deir Yassin on the west side of Jerusalem. The terrorists were Jews from The Irgun and the Stern Gang. The village buildings still stand within clear sight of Yad Vashem, the most famous Holocaust memorial.
There is no marker, historical plaque, or even a sign post to commemorate the Deir Yassin massacre, which was the most pivotal event in the Naqba or the 1948-49 dispossession of Palestinians and the beginning of the brutal ethnic cleansing that continues today, largely with American support.
The Holocaust Industry ensures that Jewish victims are worthy of remembering. In countless films, memoirs, novels, articles, museums, memorials, and educational programs Jewish victimhood is recounted over and over again. Professional victims like Elie Wiesel cast and recast the Holocaust narrative so that the world will “never forget” and consequently will ignore the apartheid conditions imposed on over half of the population living within the borders Israel now controls. The irony that Wiesel worked for the terrorist Irgun and steadfastly refuses to apologize for the massacres his employer perpetrated is never exposed in our Israel-centric media.
No comparable organization or dedication exists on the Palestinian side partly because the power of “worthy” victimhood is not recognized and partly out of fear of charges of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.
When Sarah Palin put on her Star of David necklace and toured Yad Vashem three weeks ago she pandered to Jewish power and to the memory of “worthy” victims. Had she visited Deir Yassin or even mentioned its name, she would have ended her career in American politics. The same has been true of all obligatory visits by American politicians including Clinton, Giulani, Huckabee, and Romney.
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Daniel McGowan is a Professor Emeritus at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Because of admonishment by the administration, it is hereby stated that the above remarks are solely those of the author. Hobart and William Smith Colleges neither condone nor condemn these opinions. Furthermore, the author has been instructed to use his personal email address of mcgowandaniel@yahoo.com and not his college email at mcgowan@hws.edu for those wishing to contact him with comments or criticisms.
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The Holocaust is a religion whose intent is to blackmail the World for as long as it can be maintained. It’s a racket!
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The Jews that committed these crimes were never brought to trial and many are alive; awaiting prosecution if a court/country had the courage to prosecute them.
There’s a double standard in the post WWII world where Jews go unpunished for their crimes in Palestine and other countries.
There are no statute limitations for murder.
The ’48 Nakba & The Zionist Quest for its Completion by Ilan Pappe
http://www.bintjbeil.com/articles/en/021020_pappe.html
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That’s a great point there.
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Even today Israel seeks to arrest suspected Nazis from WWII. Not a single zionist was prosecuted for colluding with the Nazis under the zionist “transfer agreement” with Germany during the war.
When Palestine is recognized as a “state” by the United Nations,International arrest warrants may be issued for the Stern gang and the Irgun,
whose members still live in peace & prosperity ,while their victims are buried in unmarked Palestinian graves…….
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