Historical Analysis of Palestinian-Jewish Relations

Did Palestinians hide Jewish fighters from the British before

Israel existed? And did those same Jewish fighters turn on

the Palestinians who hid them the moment the British left?

The answer, of course, is yes. In the nineteen forties,

Britain still ruled Palestine, and the Jewish underground, known

as the Irgun and Lehi, were carrying out a full-blown terror

campaign against the British. They bombed hotels, government

offices, and patrols, and shot officials in the street.

After they bombed the King David Hotel, the British called them terrorists

and put a bounty on their leaders' heads.

The Palestinians were aware of all of this

and took it upon themselves to

hide the Israeli fighters, providing them aid and ensuring

British troops never located them, until finally,

the British left. How did the Israeli fighters repay the

Palestinians who hid them and kept them alive?

What happened next is why so many Jewish organizations today

make sure real Israeli history is not shared with American children.

In April nineteen forty-eight, the same Israeli fighters who had been

sheltered by the Palestinian villagers turned on those exact

same villages. At Deir Yassin, over a hundred

villagers were killed, many of them women and children, and

the massacre was broadcast by the Jewish fighters deliberately to

terrorize every other village into fleeing before the

army even arrived. More than seven hundred thousand

Palestinians were driven from their homes that year alone.

The Palestinian families who had hidden the Jewish fighters were

either killed or expelled by the very people they

protected. Their story of sacrifice and aid for a

group of people who were there to steal their homes

was met with

massacre, ejection, and silence.

A silence enforced ever since by the very

organizations that claim to fight hate.