What if Deir Yassin massacre had not happen

Jason222

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What interest here that Deir Yassin massacre avoid three different ways first Arab Deir Yassin fled because warning get form Zionist force second the IDF did not allow Igun and Stern gang carry operation own. For one thing Jordan just occupation the Area gives to Arab Palestinians. Leaving Israel only has fight Egypt and Syria and Iraq.
 
There was a CNN documentary called "The 50 Years' War" or something like that which describes how the Arabs publicized the Deir Yassin massacre with the goal of motivating the Palestinians to fight harder, only for them to flee en masse.

No massacre equals no massive refugee flight equals smaller Israel pre-1967?
 
I don't want to be offend you, but there were only around 20 pepole who had been massacered in Dier Yassin. The other 80 who had been killed died in combut against the Etzel force. The other 100 are propaganda of the arab stats.
So, no big change.
 
It would have no effect on the refugees or Israel's borders as Palestinians, aware of the fate of every Jewish settlement to fall into Arab hands, were certainly too intelligent to hope the Israelis would be more considerate of them.
 
Here comes the flame war!

Anyway though, if Deir Yassin hadn't happened, almost nothing within the broader war would have changed. There were already dozens of massacres and forced uprootings that occurred throughout the '48 War on both sides, one more or one less wouldn't change much. What is might change though is early Israeli domestic politics. The fact that the Irgun committed such an obvious and heinous crime publicly discredited them somewhat, and made Ben-Gurion's job in disarming them later much easier. If that hadn't happened, the Irgun and the Revisionist movement might have been stronger in early Israeli politics. That could lead to a more aggressive foreign policy, or a more discriminatory policy towards Israeli Arabs in the 1950s (ethnic cleansing instead of military rule, for example).
 
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