No Deir Yassein 1948- HAGANAH sticks to 'purity of arms' doctrine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killin...lestine_War#.22Battles.22_and_.22massacres.22
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Yassin_massacre

WI the Deir Yassein massacre- together with similar such alleged mass killings- hadn't been perpetrated or authorised by HAGANAH fighters ? Could the Jews have been able to maintain their doctrine of 'purity of arms' while fighting both the Arab irregulars & regular Arab armies ? Would Palestinian villagers have still fled in droves even if the Jewish fighters hadn't engaged in systematic killings in captured villages ?
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killin...lestine_War#.22Battles.22_and_.22massacres.22
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Yassin_massacre

WI the Deir Yassein massacre- together with similar such alleged mass killings- hadn't been perpetrated or authorised by HAGANAH fighters ? Could the Jews have been able to maintain their doctrine of 'purity of arms' while fighting both the Arab irregulars & regular Arab armies ? Would Palestinian villagers have still fled in droves even if the Jewish fighters hadn't engaged in systematic killings in captured villages ?

In many cases civilians were caught in the crossfire (initiated by one or the other side) and depending whose civilians were dying their side would use this for propaganda. This WILL result in somebody snapping and starting a real, intentional massacre of opposite side's civilians.
Additionally, in a de facto civil war the distinction between combatants and civilians is VERY blurry by default.
 
Deir Yassin has routinely been portrayed as the turning point that forced the Palestinians to stop their resistance and flee. Had Deir Yassin not happened, Palestinians would have continued to resist, and would have definately stayed put.
However, it was probably a matter of time before something like Deir Yassin took place. Zionist ideology in the lead-up to statehood clearly stated that the Jewish homeland would always be a Jewish-majority nation. The leaders at the time realised that drastic measures were needed.
 
I think what happened in OTL was that the massacre took place and the Arab leaders trumpeted it in hopes of galvanizing their people to fight, only this backfired.

Basically no mass flight of the Palestinians, at least at the time it happened. Perhaps another massacre would take place later to do the same thing, or the Palestinians are left in place and expelled later.

If you want to get really unpleasant, perhaps larger numbers of Palestinians are allowed to stay as "hewers of wood and drawers of water"--basically a subordinate ethnicity used primarily for less prestigious work.

You might even end up with something resembling apartheid, in the pre-1967 borders themselves.

Remaining Palestinians, particularly if they're oppressed, might affect future wars--they could be fifth columnists, for example, or the Arab states might focus on "liberating" Palestinian-heavy areas first.

Thing is, OTL saw Arab citizens of Israel, so the Arab-Israeli population might simply be larger and more influential. This could in turn affect Israeli politics--I'm not sure who Israeli Arabs tend to vote for, but the ones they do vote for would be stronger in TTL.
 
They vote for the Arab parties, who to this day have never joined or been asked to join a government coalition. If they vote for one of the Big Two (Three today), it'd be Labour.
 
WI the Deir Yassein massacre- together with similar such alleged mass killings- hadn't been perpetrated or authorised by HAGANAH fighters ?
To the best of my knowledge Deir Yassein perps were Irgun and LEHI units, both are outside of Haganah chain of command (Haganah used artillery to sink Irgun supply ship off Tel Aviv coast 3 months after DY).
 
CanadianGoose is correct and given that the Haganah did disarm the Irgun only months later all we need is a POD to get it done sooner...except that I doubt it makes much difference in terms of the refugee crisis.
 
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