Deir Yassin Remembered

Early in the morning of April 9, 1948, commandos of the Irgun (headed by Menachem Begin -Nobel Prize Winner) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian residents. The village lay outside of the area to be assigned by the United Nations to the Jewish State; it had a peaceful reputation. But it was located on high ground in the corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Deir Yassin was slated for occupation under Plan Dalet and the mainstream Jewish defense force, the Haganah, authorized the irregular terrorist forces of the Irgun and the Stern Gang to perform the takeover. In all over 100 men, women, and children were systematically murdered. Fifty-three orphaned children were literally dumped along the wall of the Old City, where they were found by Miss Hind Husseini and brought behind the American Colony Hotel to her home, which was to become the Dar El-Tifl El-Arabi orphanage. Part of the struggle for self-determination by Palestinians has been to tell the truth about Palestinians as victims of Zionism. For too long their history has been denied, and this denial has only served to further oppress and deliberately dehumanize Palestinians in Israel, inside the occupied territories, and outside in their diaspora. Some progress has been made. Westerners now realize that Palestinians, as a people, do exist. And they have come to acknowledge that during the creation of the state of Israel, thousands of Palestinians were killed and over 700,000 were driven or frightened from their homes and lands on which they had lived for centuries. Deir Yassin Remembered seeks similar progress on behalf of the victims of the Deir Yassin Massacre . . . Permanent Memorial to the Israeli Holocaust Against the Palestinians In New York: A Monument to the Deir Yassin Massacre Significance: There are very few memorials to "the other holocaust," the Israeli holocaust against the Palestinians, anywhere on planet earth. Finger-pointing and apportioning blame for this enormous oversight is outside the scope of this page. Let us instead give thanks for the fact that one group of Americans, allied with international colleagues, supporters and survivors of the Israeli war crime at Deir Yassin, created this humble, but stark and effective, permanent monument, so that the memory of the victims will live on. How to Get There From Geneva, New York: Take Interstate 90 or New York Route 14 to Geneva. Travel south on Route 14 (South Main Street) until South Main Street descends down a steep hill. Put your left turn signal on now. Travel down the hill about 200 yards into the hollow. Do not ascend. (The entrance to Glenwood Cemetery will be on your right). Turn left at One Mile Point, at the bottom of the hollow. Park on the dirt road. Now walk south along the railroad tracks. The monument is a few hundred feet from One Mile Point, on the shore of Seneca Lake. From southern New York: Take Route 14 North toward the city of Geneva. Drive past "Belhurst Castle." The Geneva-on-the-Lake resort is about one mile north. As soon as you can see the Geneva-on-the-Lake resort, put on your right turn signal. Drive past the resort and descend into the hollow. Turn right at One Mile Point at the bottom of the hollow. Proceed as above. Sculpture at the top depicts an uprooted olive tree The Synagogue of Satan Israel - Founded By And Living On Terror