Dear All,
I am grateful to Anwar (himself a Nakba refugee from Jaffa, who lives in Jordan) for forwarding this. I fully agree with him that this is a ‘must’ watch. The 20 minutes of your time that it will take, will be well spent. The Dier Yassin massacre was indeed an important element in the Nakba. I have heard from Palestinians who lived in the area in which I have for the past 48 years relate that one of the motivating factors for their running away was hearing about the massacre at Dier Yassin.
This movie on Dier Yassin should be followed by others–the massacre at Tantura, at Qibia, at Qufr Qassem, and more. The Zionist narrative has enjoyed hegemony for much too long. It is time that the truth comes out.
Best, Dorothy
Movie On Deir Yassin (A Must Watch)
Early in the morning of April 9, 1948, commandos of the Irgun (headed by Menachem Begin) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village… all » with about 750 Palestinian residents. The village lay outside of the area to be assigned by the United Nations to the Jewish State; it had a peaceful reputation. But it was located on high ground in the corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Deir Yassin was slated for occupation under Plan Dalet and the mainstream Jewish defense force, the Haganah, authorized the irregular terrorist forces of the Irgun and the Stern Gang to perform the takeover.
In all over 100 men, women, and children were systematically murdered. Fifty-three orphaned children were literally dumped along the wall of the Old City, where they were found by Miss Hind Husseini and brought behind the American Colony Hotel to her home, which was to become the Dar El-Tifl El-Arabi orphanage.