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Summary: A Well-Balanced Account
Review: The sad story of what happened in Deir Yassin is told through the research of 12 individuals whose papers are joined together here to make this book. It is written in much the same style as "Iraq Under Siege". The story of the massacre at Deir Yassin lives in infamy, but its history is quickly becoming forgotten as urban development now covers the site... a site that ironically (or not) sits within a stone's throw of the Holocaust Museum, Yad Vashem, in Israel in somber rememberance of the 6 million Jewish innocents that were massacred by Hitler in WWII. Chapter 11, "Christianity and the Future of Israeli-Palestinian Relations" is one of the best written in the book. All chapters are thought provoking and written with succinct clarity. I especially appreciated this book not only for its candor, but because it maintained an essence of ecumenicalism between Christians, Jews, and Muslims that many other books do not afford. This is a must read for EVERYONE!
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Summary: terrible the history of a lie
Review: This is nothing short then the history of a fabrication, which is to say the history of the Deir Yassin 'massacre' in which less then 100 Jordanian-arabs were killed in battle with the Haganah in 1948, all of those killed were combatants, killed with weapons in their hands or close by. This book ignores the truth and ignores many other facts sourounding the unfortunate event. This book sadly, and regrettably, completely ignores the similar massacres of the Etzion Block where 100s of Jewish civilians were also murdered. Hopefully a second edition of this work will carry the name 'twin massacres' Dier Yassin and The Etzion Block. But until then this book will be a biased account of a controversial episode, one that has been blown out of all proportion.
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