What were the motivations of the various players in the propaganda about Deir Yassin?
* The Arab Higher Committee hoped exaggerated reports about a “massacre” at Deir Yassin would shock the population of the Arab countries into bringing pressure on their governments to intervene in Palestine. Instead, the immediate impact was to stimulate a new Palestinian exodus. – from Deir Yassin, by Mitchell Bard of JSOURCE * “I asked Dr. Khalidi how we should cover the story. He said, ‘We must make the most of this’. So we wrote a press release stating that at Deir Yassin children were murdered, pregnant women were raped. All sorts of atrocities.” – Hazen Nusseibeh, an editor of the Palestine Broadcasting Service’s Arabic news in 1948, was interviewed for the BBC television series “Israel and the Arabs: the 50-year conflict.” He describes an encounter with Deir Yassin survivors and Palestinian leaders, including Hussein Khalidi, the secretary of the Arab Higher Committee, at the Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City. * …for a clearer picture on the Dir Yassin scene I suggest that yo
• The Arab Higher Committee hoped exaggerated reports about a “massacre” at Deir Yassin would shock the population of the Arab countries into bringing pressure on their governments to intervene in Palestine. Instead, the immediate impact was to stimulate a new Palestinian exodus. – from Deir Yassin, by Mitchell Bard of JSOURCE • I asked Dr. Khalidi how we should cover the story. He said, “We must make the most of this”. So we wrote a press release stating that at Deir Yassin children were murdered, pregnant women were raped. All sorts of atrocities. – Hazen Nusseibeh, an editor of the Palestine Broadcasting Service’s Arabic news in 1948, was interviewed for the BBC television series “Israel and the Arabs: the 50-year conflict.” He describes an encounter with Deir Yassin survivors and Palestinian leaders, including Hussein Khalidi, the secretary of the Arab Higher Committee, at the Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem’s Old City. • …for a clearer picture on the Dir Yassin scene I suggest that you
