Israel and its predecessors, the Zionist terror groups of Haganah, Irgun and Lehi, committed 33 documented massacres during the ethnic cleansing operations that established the state of Israel. These had deliberate terrorist objectives, to terrify Palestinian farmers, fishermen and villagers in their path into fleeing. These were subsequently misrepresented as "voluntary" abandonment of their properties, to which they have never been allowed to return and many of which were given to Jewish immigrants recruited by Israel to fulfill the Zionist agenda of "ingathering the exiles." The most notorious and heavily publicized Jewish massacre was Deir Yassin, which precipitated one retaliatory massacre of Jews by the Arab Legion of Transjordan at Gush Etzion.
This Arab force, the only Arab military potentially able to stop the ethnic cleansing, had otherwise been co-opted by the Zionists in an agreement to allow the Zionists a free hand in exchange for Transjordan's retention of Judea and Samaria, now known as the West Bank.
Since then Israel has committed at least 50 additional large and small massacres - defined as the direct and deliberate mass murder of defenseless civilians - including the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp massacres of 1982 in Lebanon for which Arial Sharon was held responsible, the Jenin and Nablus massacres in the West Bank in 2002 from which international reporters and humanitarian relief efforts were excluded, the brutal 2006 attacks on Lebanon and Gaza, the Gaza massacre of 2008-09 and the flotilla massacre of 2010.
Many of these between 1948 and 1999 are described here (an Egyptian website with imperfect English) with the exception of an additional 18 during the 1948 Nakba described by Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, and a massacre of Egyptian POWs and civilians in the Sinai during the 1967 war. This was reported by Bedouin witnesses at the time, supported by later discoveries of mass graves in that area. Israel's desperate need to conceal this crime is the most likely motive behind its deliberate, bizarre and recklessattack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967, which was subsequently whitewashed by the US civilian and military administration in an equally bizarre act of treason at our highest levels of government.
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