Yesterday, a Hebrew-only piece appeared in Haaretz, by Morris, titled "The Director of Historical Revisionism in the Defense Ministry". The title is a sarcastic pun on the name of the revealed department, the "Department for Security of the Defense Establishment" (acronym Malmab in Hebrew).
Morris congratulates Shezaf for her "excellent investigative report" and continues to tell in detail of the disappearance of archives he had quoted from concerning the massacre of Deir Yassin from 1948.
Morris's exposure reveals a multi-layered conspiracy of cover-up, historical revisionism and censorship that cuts across many decades:
Morris reveals that the documents he was seeking were not only from 1948 (reports from the Haganah Intelligence Service), but also from much later - 1971.About two years ago, when I was preparing a collection of articles for my recent book in Hebrew (From Deir Yassin to Camp David), I asked the Defense Ministry and IDF Archive for permission to peruse anew documents which regarded the massacre which was committed by the Etzel [Irgun] and Lehi [Stern Gang] in the Arab town Deir Yassin, on the western approaches of Jerusalem, on February 9th 1948. On that day 100-120 of the village residents were killed, most of them children, women and elderly. These documents were open to researchers and the wide public at the beginning of the 21st century and I had quoted from them extensively in the English article "The Historiography of Deir Yassin" which I had published in 2005 in the Tel Aviv University's Journal of Israeli History. I had now asked to peruse them again, but the directors of the archive refused my request. They had no explanation other than the statement: "now the documents are closed".
The 1971 documents relate to secret discussions between former Haganah/IDF officials and Foreign Ministry officials concerning what happened in Deir Yassin. And the reason for the discussions is a booklet that was published in 1969 by the Hasbara Department of the Foreign Ministry, under Abba Eban. Morris explains about the content:
Morris also discloses that it was his father, the late Yaakov Morris, who was the author of the booklet. The release of the booklet caused uproar amongst veterans of the Labor movement who had been leaders in the Zionist militias and the Israeli military in 1948, and they complained about the booklet. In 1971, Shaul Avigdor, who had been a Haganah immigration official, sent a complaint to Gideon Rafael, Director General of the Foreign Ministry. Avigdor attached an opinion from Yehuda Slutzki, author of the official Haganah history book, who affirmed that there indeed was a massacre in Deir Yassin. Yitzhak Levy, who was head of the Intelligence Service in Jerusalem in 1948 and later became Deputy Director General of the Prime Minister Office, wrote to Menahem Begin (Irgun commander and later Prime Minister) also in 1971 - Begin had denied the massacre.In the booklet it was claimed that there was no massacre in Deir Yassin and that the story about the massacre is supposedly an Arab fiction, 'part of a collection of fables'.
Morris summarizes:Levitzeh [Yitzhak Levy] wrote that he had investigated the story at the time, and found that Deir Yassin was a quiet town, which had not participated in the battles of 1948 and that indeed a massacre had been perpetrated there by the Irgun and Lehi. Also Israel Galili, from the heads of the Haganah in 1948 and at the time a senior minister in the Israeli government, complained directly to Eban. Eventually Eban replied that his office had shelved the discussed booklet.
Morris cites Yitzhak Levy, reporting about Deir Yassin in 1948:The relevant letters from 1971, which were open for perusal in 2003-2004, were closed to researchers and the wide public by order of the Malmab, and therefore in 2018 I was prohibited from seeing them. As well, most of the "incriminating" material from April 1948, which was written by the Intelligence Service officers and was open in 2003-2004, was closed by the Malmab (by the way, even earlier, since I began to work with 1948 matters from the early 1980's, the Archive of the Defense Ministry and IDF has consistently refused to release for review photographs of the slain of Deir Yassin, which were apparently taken by the Intelligence Service people before they were buried).
Levy had supplied his report the day after with a follow-up from testimonies of Lehi militants:The conquering of the town was done with great cruelty. Whole families, women, elderly and small children were killed... Some of the prisoners were taken to detention centers including women and children and cruelly murdered by their captors.
Morris writes that these reports contain many more acts of the Irgun and Lehi in Deir Yassin, including looting etc.Lehi fighters raped a number of women and murdered them later.
Morris decries the "idiocy" of the Malmab in hiding these materials, since "the whole story was told and publicized since 1988 in many books in Hebrew and English, from my pen and from others". But he resigns to the logic of it all:
What a cover-up, what a conspiracy (and that's not just a theory). Everything is being buried, by an arm of the Israeli government. If someone were doing this to Holocaust documents, there would be a cry to the heavens. What a shame. The Jewish State is actively trying to erase the Nakba and any critical discussion of it. Holocaust denial is illegal in Germany - but Nakba denial is not illegal in Israel, and it is thriving.Yet, as transpires from Shezaf's article, the heads of Malmab in their actions hope or hoped that inaccessibility of the Israeli materials, which they had enforced, would cause doubt regarding the work, the conclusions and the very credibility of the researchers - including this writer - in whoever reads their books and articles.
H/t Ronit Lentin
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Ninety-five percent of Jews in America regard Israel as their homeland, in spite of having enjoyed the immense benefits all their lives that America has given them. And even atheistic Jews define themselves as Jews - it is a race, not a religion. And citizenship in Israel is granted on a racial basis, not a religious basis. You can be an atheistic murderer with a Jewish mother, and Israel will give you a passport, but if you are a convert to the so-called "religion" of Judaism, without a racially Jewish mother, it will not. And Jews and non-Jews cannot get a marriage license in Israel.
The only states I am aware of in the entire history of the world that practiced these racial separation laws were Nazi Germany, Apartheid South Africa, Segregationist America, and Israel. Every other state in history has conferred citizenship on anyone who demonstrated loyalty to the state, regardless of their race, and permitted racial intermarriage under law. Many tribes in Africa and elsewhere frown on marriage outside the tribe, but those marriages do happen, and tribes are not nations.
As for Hitler, you are aware of the events of 1933? Samuel Untermeyer, American President of the World Jewish Congress, declared he would go to a meeting of the Jews of the world in Amsterdam to decide on a policy towards the new Nazi Government in Germany. When he returned, he was met on the docks in New York by some 30-50 journalists. In his speech, he announced that "Judea Has Declared War on Germany" and announced that henceforth, no German goods were to be bought by any American, regardless of their ethnicity. In the midst of the Depression, this was a devastating boycott for German industry. Picket lines of Jews marched outside any store that was found to have any item made in Germany. So the first declaration of war between Nazism and Judaism was made by Judaism.
At the same time, the WJC made a secret deal with the Germans, that the Nazis should persecute Jews in Germany to encourage them to emigrate to Palestine. (Google "Edwin Black The Transfer Agreement" and you will find an entire website on this subject by Edwin Black, a Jew.) When Jeremy Corbyn pointed out this actual historical Zionist pact with the Nazis a couple of years ago, he was labeled an "Anti-Semite." But Edwin Black has an entire website devoted to this topic and nobody says a word.
The Holocaust Museum in Washington even has a large photo on the wall of happy young German Jews waving from the windows of a train, on their way to Nazi-financed free agricultural colleges set up by the "evil Hitler" where they were to learn farming, in preparation for their emigration to Palestine.
Eventually, when the West declared war on Germany, the Nazi racial persecution of Jews turned into a policy of deportation of these hostile fifth-columnists in the midst of German society, to camps in the conquered lands to the East. The subsequent Holocaust was a deliberate sacrifice by the Zionists of millions of their own racial brothers and sisters, in order to forever hold this genocide over the heads of the rest of the world, and shame you and me into acquiescing to every demand of Zionist and Talmudic Jewry, no matter how outrageous..
Yes, in one sense it is a religious question, since the Talmud is the most vile, foul, violent, cruel, filthy, racist screed ever written by Man, making Mein Kampf or the manifesto of the South African Whites look positively mild and benign by comparison.
But it is more. It is a racist philosophy. If one is not a descendant of Abraham, one is not a "real" Jew. Every other religion in the world welcomes converts, but not Judaism. It positively discourages conversion, except in a few cases such as when a Jew marries a non-Jew. Then it welcomes the non-Jew to convert, mainly so that the children can be raised and indoctrinated as Jews, and not be lost to the tribe.
It is a horrible religion, a horrible race, and a horrible country.