Deir Yassin massacre

Also staffed almost entirely by IDF soldiers.

And what he said right there, we killed a sufficient amount and we let the rest run away, is unironically what Israel did in Deir Yassin during the Nakba.

That is exactly what Israel did.

That is exactly what Israel did before Israel existed.

I had taken all of that on without questioning it.

But because of the way in which the, the, the lying became so bloated to the point of collapse, someone like me, n- no kind of expert in, in Middle East politics, I began to look at things like the Nakba, and I began to look at things like the Deir Yassin massacre, which took me all the way back to, you know, beg- begi- it only took minutes once I started looking, you know, at the history of the f- of the, o- o- of Israel and, and, uh, and, uh, and its relationships, y- you know, to the, to, to its neighbors, that I, I thought, "How can this be?" You know, uh, all, all of these, all of these, um, uh, stories began to open up to me, the assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, all of the rest of it, you know-

Mm

... and the, and the role played by Irgun and the Stern Gang and, and all of the rest of it.

Let's see.

That's from Daniel McGowan, A Jewish Eyewitness, An Interview with Meir Payel in Remembering Deir Yassin, The Future of Israel and Palestine by Daniel McGowan and Mark Ellis.

Book 1998, page 40.

Israeli military historian Colonel Meir Payel, who was then a member of the Haganah terrorist organization.