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The Ongoing Legacy of the Nakba-Deniers |
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The recent opening of the new Yad Vashem museum, which is a modern edifice near Jerusalem built to commemorate the victims of the Nazi Holocaust, again emphasized a crucial issue concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has been, as usual, practically completely ignored by the media, despite its considerable significance.
For the Palestinians, the very place where Yad Vashem was erected, has a significance that goes beyond its being another chunk of expropriated Palestinian land. In 1948, at about 1400 meters distance from this memorial museum, the massacre of the villagers of Deir Yasin took place, in which 254 Palestinian civilians were brutally slaughtered by Zionist terror organizations.
The explosion of fear resulting from this massacre, was part of the strategy of expulsion of the Palestinians by the Zionist ideologues, and helped them succeed in driving over 800,000 Palestinians from their homes, causing the biggest and longest-standing refugee problem in modern history. Deir Yasin therefore became symbolical for 'Al-Nakba', 'the Disaster', the term which Palestinians use to refer to the events of ethnic cleansing surrounding the 'founding' of the Zionist state. |
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