Deir Yassin: The Battle for Truth

Unpacking Israeli History

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🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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No incident in Israeli history has been more hotly contested than that of April 9, 1948, in the small Arab village of Deir Yassin. Noam Weissman tries to uncover what really happened on that fateful day and asks why, with so many battles, so much war and so many disputes, this event will haunt Israel forever. ~~~~ The Unpacking Israeli History Podcast series is sponsored by Andrea and Larry Gill This episode is sponsored by Maytal and David Shainberg ~~~~ Learn more about Unpacked: https://jewishunpacked.com/about/ Visit Unpacked on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/unpacked Teaching about this topic? Check out our relevant educator resources here: https://unpacked.education/video/what-is-deir-yassin/ ~~~~ Source Links https://mfa.gov.il/mfa/aboutisrael/history/pages/israels%20war%20of%20independence%20-%201947%20-%201949.aspx https://erenow.net/modern/israel-concise-history-nation-reborn/8.php https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-capture-of-deir-yassin https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/MAGAZINE-testimonies-from-the-censored-massacre-at-deir-yassin-1.5494094 https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/04/201249125656342960.html https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/deir-yassin-nakba-war-crimes/ https://erenow.net/modern/israel-concise-history-nation-reborn/8.php Nihad Zeitawi, edited by: Sharif Kana’a, Destroyed Palestinian villages, Series No. (4): Deir Yassin, Bir Zeit University – Documents and Research center, 1987, p.57 ~~~~ Unpacked is a division of OpenDor Media

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Noam Weisman, and you're listening to unpacking Israeli history,
0:04.0	the podcast that takes a deep dive into some of the most intense,
0:07.6	historically fascinating and confusing events in Israeli history.
0:12.0	All that in just about 20 minutes.
0:14.6	Yala, let's do this. We the people of Israel people of Israel.
0:25.0	We, the people of Israel are prepared and anxious to meet the representatives of our neighbors without any preconditions.
0:36.0	There are people in Israel elsewhere say it's impossible to make peace within the Arabs in Israel or the Turkish people.
0:45.0	I think they're on.
0:47.0	Dare you see.
0:50.0	I still remember the first time I heard these two words. I was a junior in
0:55.9	Yeshiva University. I had many years of Jewish education under my belt and
1:00.8	was visiting friends of mine at the University of Maryland.
1:05.1	At the Chabat meal, one guest kept on bringing up the story of Darien.
1:10.3	She explained, see Israel committed so many atrocities, the Palestinians are right.
1:17.0	Another guess at the meal said, nah, this is all just a made-up story, and if it did happen,
1:22.0	it's probably just an exaggeration. They looked at me and
1:25.5	inquired well what do you think? I remember sitting there sweating. I was
1:31.6	supposed to be the guy that knew this stuff. I was a history major, spent
1:35.7	lots of time in Yeshiva, and I was supposed to know Jewish history. But they caught me
1:41.4	red-handed. and so I surrendered.
1:45.0	Um, who is Darcyne?
1:48.0	That's all I said, that's all I asked.
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