The world does not seem to need very much advice on how to cover up massacres. People are good at creating masks of indifference, unknowing, denial and distortion of evidence without needing much training. A thoughtful and extensive review of a documentary on the catastrophe for the Arab people in the course of Israel’s War
See the Haaretz editorial (December 12, 2021). Allow the archives to speak. Haaretz English Edition. On Haaretz website the title of the editorial was changed as follows: Editorial | Israel’s ‘Most Moral Army in the World’ Can’t Keep Running Away From Its Past. https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/israel-s-most-moral-army-in-the-world-can-t-keep-running-away-from-its-past-1.10458062 “Prime Minister and Defense Minister David Ben-Gurion described the actions as
A Jewish historian, Adam Raz, has published in Haaretz a major revelation, “Classified Docs Reveal Massacres of Palestinians in ’48 – and What Israeli Leaders Knew: Testimonies continue to pile up, documents are revealed, and gradually a broader picture emerges of the acts of murder committed by Israeli troops during the War of Independence. Minutes
by Yair Auron Haaretz English Edition Mar 18, 2016 A poem published by Natan Alterman during Israel’s War of Independence criticizing human-rights abuses was lauded by Prime Minister Ben-Gurion, who even distributed 100,000 copies of it among soldiers; other such testimonies were made to disappear. David Ben-Gurion, May 14, 1948. Credit: Government Press Office On