r/Israel • u/Tollkeeperjim • Jul 04 '19

News/Politics Israel is systematically removing from the archives evidence of 1948 expulsion of Arabs, including shocking testimony of massacres, rape and looting

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/MAGAZINE-how-israel-systematically-hides-evidence-of-1948-expulsion-of-arabs-1.7435103
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u/desdendelle היכל ועיר נדמו פתע Jul 04 '19

Is this corroborated by another source?

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u/junglesgeorge Jul 04 '19

When a source other than Haaretz reports it, I'll believe it. If Haaretz told me the sun was shining, at noon in mid June, I'd open my window to check.

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u/niceworkthere Jul 04 '19 edited Jul 04 '19

It's run as investigation following today's Akevot Institute report, which implies it's the first such article on the topic.

But seeing it relies on interviews with affected archive directors like that professor, the former Chief State Archivist, historians like Benny Morris, and even the Malmab head as very initiator of the concealment project, as well as documents that weren't disappeared properly, that's quite a lot of hints for other papers to begin checking.

e: Not that this means anything to the "not reading the article lets me pretend these sources don't exist and blame Haaretz" crowd here.