yayacanada.blogspot.com — Nearly 9,000 Arab residents were driven out of their homes and forced to march for days over rocky hillsides to safety. When the residents were gone, the soldiers pulled down the homes and plowed under the orchards. Israel wiped the villages off the map.
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shaghouriJan 21, 2009
FTA: From 1948 until 1967 Amwas was in Jordanian territory. The so- called Green Line that separated Israel from Jordan ran right along the western edge of the village. Before 1967, the village of Amwas, or Emmaus, appeared on Israeli maps of the Holy Land along with its sister villages of Beit Nuba and Yalu. They no longer appear on official Israeli maps. It is as if for Israel the villages never existed....Of course.. they have to blur and rewrite history to justify their existence..
Closed AccountJan 21, 2009
“Any of the following Acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [or] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”United Nations
Closed AccountJan 21, 2009
Wow, those comments are extremely telling.
falldogJan 21, 2009
Egypt started the war by aggressively massing troops, evicting UN peace keepers, and blockading Israel troops. To suggest that it was Israel that is responsible for starting the war is wrong. When troops are poised to attack your country you have every right to strike first, not wait till they start rolling in and causing death and destruction.The comparison to WWII is just as idiotic. The US joined the war to support these nations and had no interest in acquiring the land. Besides, even though the US did not take land, the Soviet Union did. The history of war is filled with land acquisition. The US did it, France did it, Prussians did it, United Kingdom. Trying to pick one poor example and ignoring the nature of war is wrong.Was what Israel did to the residents wrong by many moral judgments? Yes. Was what Israel did wrong with respect to the history of war acquisitions? No.
richmomzJan 21, 2009
Israel's 60 year immunity from prosecution for human rights violations is coming to an end, and they know it. They are now taking measures to protect their military commanders from prosecution by refusing to disclose their identities and forbidding them from leaving the country. The intent is clearly to obstruct the judicial process of international courts and protect them from potential warcrime accusations by the Hague: <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/world_news/Travel_advisory_issued_for_top_IDF_officers?t=22632604#c22632604">http://digg.com/world_news/Travel_advisory_issued_ ...</a>
brodskieJan 21, 2009
It is mentioned that compensation was offered in other articles that reference the village. For example, look here <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imwas">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imwas</a>I just grouped together these villages because they were destroyed with a similar purpose in mind.But anything on wikipedia is potentially bad. This is an obscure subject. That's why you should read the linked books for the truth. Michael Oren is a respected historian whose books are very evenhanded and mention several incidents where Palestinians were expelled without compensation. And again, why did they allow millions of Palestinians to remain if their goal was to ethnically cleanse the West Bank?
jstrevelnJan 22, 2009
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rexbladeJan 25, 2009
Wow that was pathetic even for NoL standards.