Was Israel's destruction of Mosques in villages within the 1948 borders justified?

Question

http://www.imemc.org/article/49356

Supporters of Israel complain vehemently about desecration of synagogues by Palestinians, for example ones in Gaza (http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/Synagogue_Desecrations.asp). Yet it seems that Israel conducted wholesale, state-sponsored eradication of mosques in 1948 and subsequently. (This in addition to the eradication of the Palestinian inhabitants of pre-1948 Israel). Could those who objected to the destruction of the Gaza synagogues built since 1967 outside the territory of Israel (illegal under international law), please explain why they find it acceptable for Israel to destroy hundreds of mosques, some of them over 1000 years old?

Zionists also blew up and murdered innocent people, for example at Dawayma in October 1948.

This town was taken by a company of the 89th Commando Battalion which was composed of former Irgun and Stern Gang terrorists. A veteran of the unit published an account of the massacre. He noted that in order `to kill the children they fractured their heads with sticks. There was not one house without corpses.؟ After murdering the children, the Jewish soldiers herded the women and men into houses. where they were kept without food or water. Then the houses were blown up with the civilians inside.

So far, all the pro-Israelis have said this behavior is perfectly OK with them. Would anyone else like to weigh in?

Zionists also blew up and murdered innocent people, for example at Dawayma in October 1948.

This town was taken by a company of the 89th Commando Battalion which was composed of former Irgun and Stern Gang terrorists. A veteran of the unit published an account of the massacre. He noted that in order `to kill the children they fractured their heads with sticks. There was not one house without corpses.؟ After murdering the children, the Jewish soldiers herded the women and men into houses. where they were kept without food or water. Then the houses were blown up with the civilians inside.

So far, all the pro-Israelis have said this behavior is perfectly OK with them. Would anyone else like to weigh in? Is it OK for Zionists/Israelis to commit atrocities?

Lets see, I have 6 answers.
- 3 pro-Israelis advocating desecration of religious buildings as long as they aren't Jewish, 2 (runningtoouden & Maxx P) of them explicitely advocating "force" or "power" to get rid of non-Jewish persons, in practice, locking up women and men inside of their homes, denying them food and water for days, then killing them by exploding the buildings over them. I guess this is fairly representative the morality of advocates of Israel.

- 1 pro-Zionist (BMCR) in denial - btw the description of the Dawayima massacre was taken largely from pro-Israel Zionist meticulous historian Benny Morris, it's in general agreement with anti-Zionist historian Ilan Pappe's recounting.

That leave 2, bdbbdb and asad montana. bdbbdb puts him/herself in the shoes of both sides, and I like some of his/her comments. However he/she doesn't take a clear position in his/her own shoes. Asad montana does make a clear position against the killing of innocent people.

Hmm.

2 more answers. Sadly, Mo Mosh appears to be bent on advancing Zionist lies. His site, like good propaganda mixes in a few "facts," along with laughable misinformation and speculation unsupported by historical evidence.

I was going to give BMCR the benefit of the doubt and assume he was gulled by such propaganda, but on thinking about it, perhaps he's more like the good Germans who refused to see Nazi atrocities practically under their noses?

Note that the zionists who answered this obviously didn't read the article, which clearly states that Ben-Gurion ordered the destruction of the Mosques to COVER UP the fact that the land had been previously inhabited by non-Jews. The expulsion of non-Jews had happened already. The destruction was not even out of religious hate that some of the pro-Israelis exhibit in their answers. It was, in other words, to COVER UP the ethnic cleansing commited by the Zionists (although perhaps such atrocities are by definition religious hate).

I can't say I understand Mashtin Baqir's answer. The article in IMEMC references Haaretz, a respectable Israeli newspaper http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/LiArt.jhtml?contrassID=2&subContrassID=14&sbSubContrassID=0

The description of the massacre was at least in part derived from Benny Morris' "The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem." You cannot get more authoratative than that.

Answer 1

I'm sadly amused that there are people here in YA who are unable to recognize that the state of Israel was born of terrorism.
A few Brit soldiers get blown up by David ben-Gurion and his ilk, and GB panicks and turns the whole problem over to the UN, which the U.S. pushes into creating a "Homeland for the Jews" from the PALESTINIAN homeland. Good deal for the Palis, huh? Er...I don't think so.
Why wasn't Germany, whose government perpetrated the Holocaust, given to the Jews? Wouldn't that have been the logical choice? Oh wait...Germans at that time constituted the highest ethnicity in the U.S. I guess they didn't want THEIR ancestral homelands given to the Jews either, and it was a lot easier to pick on the Palis.
In answer to your question, of COURSE it wasn't justified, but for some reason, Israel (and the U.S.) gets to play by different rules than anyone else.

Answer 2

The starting of the Arab invasion of Israel and the begin of the moment facet of the Independence battle 15 might 1948 The statement of Israel's independence gave Arab armies the sign to invade the infant Jewish state. The Egyptian navy crossed the border in 2 armored columns, started advancing within the path of Tel Aviv, and got here inside 32 km of the town. The Jordanian legion tightened the siege on Jerusalem and conquered Gush Etzion. The Syrian navy crossed the Jordan River in a few locations and attacked Israeli groups within the Jordan Valley and Galilee. The Lebanese navy along side the Kaukaji volunteer navy crossed the northern border and attacked Israeli groups within the higher Galilee. Arab armies acquired help from hundreds of armed Arabs who have been civilians of Israel. Two Brigades of the Iraqi navy have been located within the Sharon subject and in northern Samaria. The younger Israeli navy confronted the invading forces with a scarcity of guns, ammunition, and gear, however filled with wrath and fight spirit. The IDF started an extended and vicious struggle for the liberty of the state of Israel

Answer 3

This is not a ligitimate government; i don't care what top governments say. It is the successor to the jewish Agency,which operated a trio of bloodthirsty terrorist organizations: The irgun,the Stern Gang,the jabotinski league. It is a vicious entity like the "government" of Milosoveic and there can be no peace in the mideast until it is dismantled. Nothing is does is justified.

Answer 4

Of course it isnt justified. Killing of innocent people can never be justififed. The cheek those people have by coming out and saying that muslims are terrorists when the biggest terrorist in the world is Israel and USA.....

Answer 5

The people of Isreal needed a home, and they were given one in a holy place, surronded by muslim countries. Rather than allowe anyone to try and bully them Israel showed their force and because of it they are still around today. The countries willingness to do what was necessary made set an example on how to get things done!

Answer 6

This reeks of old-fashioned anti-Zionist imaginary claims.

Listen, we can defeat Israel if we stick to the truth, but if we just repeat fairy tales, no one will take us seriously.

Answer 7

Muslims have the nasty habit of blowing things up and killing people. It was a sound policy to run them off by destroying their mosques. One thing they do respect is power.

Muslims if you are offended I am sorry, perhaps you can stop blowing stuff up and killing people

Answer 8

if your a jew sure. they don't want the moslem s*** in their country. it's not like isreali jews are freedom of religion types like american jews.

if your moslem, hell no, what right did the usa have to order the brits to let the jews perpetuate their genecide on the palestinians. how can the usa order the palastinians out of their homeland of 2000 yrs and give it to the jews just because the usa didn't want the jews all moving to the usa.

Answer 9

Asking whether certain actions are justified are moot when one considers that the said actions never happened.

Answer 10

Ask yourself if you're looking for historical truth or popular mythology.