Deir Yassin Quotes

“By the time the Arab armies attacked, Zionist forces had already largely depopulated Jaffa and Haifa, Palestine's two largest cities. The war's most notorious massacre of Palestinians, in which Zionist militias killed more than a hundred men, women, and children in the village of Deir Yassin, occurred in April. When Jewish leaders claim the Arab invasions drove Palestinians to leave, they've got the causality reversed. "It was not the entry of the Arab armies that caused the exodus. It was the exodus that caused the entry of the Arab armies," concluded the historian Walid Khalidi after consulting extensive Arab government documents and press reports.”
― Peter Beinart, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning