woensdag 7 januari 2009

Minister Maxime Verhagen 9


Hier zijn de e-mailadressen van de Tweede Kamerleden van de Commissie Buitenlandse Zaken. Ik heb ze net vragen gesteld naar aanleiding van mijn stukje over Benny Morris. Ik wil van deze parlementsleden weten of ze Israel onvoorwaardelijk blijven steunen of dat ze consequenties gaan trekken uit de feiten die de Israelische historicus Benny Morris aandraagt.

'Morris: 'The revised book is a double-edged sword. It is based on many documents that were not available to me when I wrote the original book, most of them from the Israel Defense Forces Archives. What the new material shows is that there were far more Israeli acts of massacre than I had previously thought. To my surprise, there were also many cases of rape. In the months of April-May 1948, units of the Haganah [the pre-state defense force that was the precursor of the IDF] were given operational orders that stated explicitly that they were to uproot the villagers, expel them and destroy the villages themselves.'
En:
'From April 1948, Ben-Gurion is projecting a message of transfer. There is no explicit order of his in writing, there is no orderly comprehensive policy, but there is an atmosphere of [population] transfer. The transfer idea is in the air. The entire leadership understands that this is the idea. The officer corps understands what is required of them. Under Ben-Gurion, a consensus of transfer is created...Ben-Gurion was a transferist. He understood that there could be no Jewish state with a large and hostile Arab minority in its midst. There would be no such state. It would not be able to exist.'
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