Quotation from Yosef Nahmani “Where did they come by such a measure of cruelty, like Nazis? ” — Nov. 6 1958

Director of the Jewish National Fund office in the eastern Galilee, relating zionist massacres in three villages, as recorded in his diary.

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In Safsaf, after ... the inhabitants had raised a white flag, the [soldiers] col­lected and separated the men and women, tied the hands of fifty-sixty fellahin [peasants] and shot and killed them and buried them in a pit. Also, they raped several women.... At Eilabun and Farradiya the soldiers had been greeted with white flags and rich food, and afterwards had ordered the villagers to leave, with their women and children. When the [villagers] had begun to argue ... [the soldiers] had opened fire and after some thirty people were killed, had begun to lead the rest [towards Lebanon]. Where did they come by such a measure of cruelty, like Nazis? ... Is there no more humane way of expelling the inhabitants than such methods?

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Benny Morris, Falsifying the Record : A Fresh Look at Zionist Documentation of 1948, J. of Palestine Studies 24, pp. 44-62 (1995).

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