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Satire for Sanity
Israel’s little-known concentration and labor camps (1948-1955)
It is shocking that this happened in Palestine just a few years after the Nazi regime was defeated and its concentration camp prisoners
(many of them Jews) were freed.
reposted from Al-Awda, October 19, 2014, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Much of the grim and murky circumstances of the Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the late 1940s have gradually been exposed
over time. One aspect – rarely researched or deeply discussed – is the internment of thousands of Palestinian civilians within at least 22
Zionist-run concentration and labor camps that existed from 1948 to 1955. Now more is known about the contours of this historical
crime, due to the comprehensive research by renowned Palestinian historian Salman Abu Sitta and founding member of the Palestinian
resource center BADIL Terry Rempel.
The facts are these.
The study – to be published in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies – relies on almost 500 pages of International
Committee of the Red Cross’s (ICRC) reports written during the 1948 war, that were declassified and made available to the public in
1996, and accidentally discovered by one of the authors in 1999.
Furthermore, testimonies of 22 former Palestinian civilian detainees of these camps were collected by the authors, through interviews
they conducted themselves in 2002, or documented by others during different moments of time.
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israels-little-known-concentration-and-labor-camps-1948-1955/?
fbclid=IwAR1rthcyT17GIuLkpTj0DHiQL2fq8mlw87mi07fYJFvyotWiXAFGjY5GUvA
And we were told it was all ' bagels, kosher sausage-sizzles and ' Hava Nagila ' round the friendly camp-fires in the kibbutz. '
Then came the Internet.
