Talk:Deir Yassin

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It is a nonsense to have two articles, one about the Deir Yassin massacre (openly stating that it DID happen, and offering historical evidence) and another, this one, that is supposedly about the Deir Yassin village, but ends up curiously trying to deny that that very event happened (or at least it tries to reformulate it from a zionist perspective, clearly not NPOV). If you want to talk about the Deir Yassin massacre, please DO it at it´s appropiate article.Violenciafriki 20:45, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

I have reverted to the previous version of Jun 21, it was remarkable that these additions stood this long. The additions were almost all inappropriate for this article, as Violenciafriki noted. It is a remarkable statement to call an article which was basically a stub, almost entirely consisting of a table and a very few links "filled with hateful materials," removing the link to the DY massacre article is just silly, arguably minor vandalism, and the external link was to a POV website, but hardly a "terror website." The right way to do things is to try to balance such links with links to ones with POV more congenial to your own, and put them in the appropriate article. John Z 03:44, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Israeli military operation?!

May I remind readers that this "operation" took place before Israel existed as a state. The forces involved (Lehi, Irgun) were terrorist organisations, not sovereign military forces. Even Ben Gurion thought so (he later tried to kill Begin - see Altalena). To call this "an Israeli military operation" is to call Munich 1972 "a Palestinian military operation". I call into question the impartiality of this page. 86.15.169.220 12:32, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

The Irgun "gang" actually operated for several years, starting in the 1930s, under British control. Blowing up resistance fighters houses, assasinations of suspected troublemakers, etc were old British tactics. The Irgun were officially sanctioned terrorists. Also the Hagganah(sp).