DEIR Yassin was the village in Palestine wiped off the map in 1948 in an atrocity which echoes down the decades.
This one village, whose men, women and children were murdered by Zionist terrorists, epitomises the injustice meted out to the Palestinian people to allow the birth of the Israeli state.
On April 9, the anniversary of the atrocity, the York branch of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign will be remembering Deir Yassin. We shall be handing out leaflets on the day from our stall in Parliament Street.
We hope to establish a permanent memorial to Deir Yassin in York. Why this obscure village, why this one horror so long ago, so far away? Because it's not so far away and not so long ago - more recent than the Second World War.
The Israeli state and its Zionist supporters are in denial about Deir Yassin. Unless they, the powerful, face up to the fact that they committed acts of terrorism to get where they are today, they will not begin to walk the road of reconciliation with their oppressed Palestinian neighbours.
Nicholas Hall,
Windmill Way,
York.
Updated: 11:28 Wednesday, April 06, 2005
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