Mar LBOX :

Reader. gives Collins a history lesson

Dear Editor:

Mr. Doug Collins doesn’t scem
to care much for Jewish organiza.
tions or the ‘state of Israel,
that of course is his privilege. Dut
quite . aside from: his personal
predilections on such matters it
would be pleasant if he were to
make a bit of an effort to get the
facts straight.

On ‘March 6 he mentions events
at Deir Yassin in Palestine in 1948,

claiming that the Jewish leader-:

“Menachem Begin ... organized a
raid | in’ which hundreds of
(Arab) old. men,

Attack

‘ Dear Editor:

Until 1 read oe Collins’ col:

umn jin the North Shore News on
March 8, Mr. Collins and 1 have
0 trouble secing ‘cye to cyc.
egards to’ South Africa

sm; and even’ (especially) *

1 have ' been thankful -
‘has’ been around to
: for

women and:

worries

children were slaughtered and
stuffed down wells.’'
.Had Mr. Collins known more

about the history of this event he

might have stayed faraway from °
it. It so happens that the Deir
Yassin incident “has been widely
discussed in the literature, by his-

well-known Jews in the American
anti-Semitic movement, seems to

_have invented the detail about the

wells,’

The truth of the incident is quite
different.
/M is indeed a. fact, that Jewish

fighting ‘organizations, in pursuit

torians aiid by propagandists, and ,/ of Arab fighters, scized the village

that the approach to this event is -
recognized: 3% a sort.of litmus test
of awriter’s probity. : ,

Mr. Collins reproduces, almost

_ word for word, the. propagandistic
version. of co-Nazis.
Alfred M.’ Lilienthal, one, of two

the neo-Nazis.": Mr.

tied. He may be‘a little right of
Atilla the Hun but it is more than
that, vA

It seems to come down to
‘religious beliefs.

we believe - everything: \we read?

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on April 8, 1948. The Jewish
groups tried to get the civilians: to
leave the village before the attack,

but for whatever reasons many |

remained. In the course of fighting
254 Arab men,
children lost their lives. The Jewish

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In the anti- Semitic version of the
incident — the one adopted by Mr.
Coltins:— Deir Yassin is the only
violence of the jwar of 1948, ‘even
as the Allied fire bombing of

Dresden in 1945, is.the only vio-

lence of the Second World War to/
those who would justify Hitle j

“The (ruth is that there was a ‘preat
deal ‘of violence in 1948 on both
sides. Three days after Deir
Yassin, for’ example, .77 Jewish
doctors and nurses, travelling in a
Red Cross convoy, were killed in
an ‘Arab ambush. Nobody in the
Arab world expressed regret for
these killings, then or now.. Mr.
Collins does not find it in bjs heart :
to mention them.

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