![]() ![]() ![]() “Neither Yedioth Aharanot (the country’s most-read daily) nor any other Israeli paper would have published these articles,” says the historian. Raz, who has produced several works including “Kafr Qasim Massacre” on the massacre at Kafr Qasim, has himself in recent years published in Haaretz or seen his work reported by Aderet in a series of incendiary articles on the Nakba, on hitherto unknown massacres, but also on affairs like the integration of the oriental Jews who arrived in the 1950s. The paper employs full time a journalist, Ofer Aderet, who follows the work of historians who are completely “deconstruction” the old official versions. Raz publishes his revelations regularly in the columns of Haaretz. Raz digs out the buried traces of the Israeli past, rubbed out by official historiography precisely to mask the facts hidden by its own heroic version. They are often based on the work of a young historian, Adam Raz, who in 2015 set up a working group, the Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research, known as Akevot, a name which means “traces” in Hebrew. Haaretz, the Israeli “newspaper of record,” has unleashed a wild torrent of such revelations about the way Israel expelled the Palestinians from their lands. In the end this not very effective tactic was swiftly abandoned. Some first poisonings were carried out in April 1948 near Acre and in villages close to Gaza. Yadin wrote to his subordinates that they should act “with the utmost secrecy”. The archives show that General Yohanan Ratner requested a written order, which was refused. Conceived under the auspices of the future Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, and his future chief of staff, Yigael Yadin, the operation was called Cast Thy Bread 2 and was intended to prevent the return of the Palestinians after they had been expelled. Archives show the Israeli army conducted biological warfare in 1948.” 1 Reading on, you discover that orders were given to poison the wells of Palestinian villages during the civil war which pitted the forces of the Yishuv (the Jewish colony in Palestine) against those of the native population in the period leading up to the creation of Israel on 15 May 1948. You arrive in Israel, buy a copy of Haaretz and spot this headline: “Throw the material in the well. ![]()
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