Deir Yassin

Letters and Comments about the PEACE Deir Yassin Site

Please address comments to Dr. Ami Isseroff 
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Presented by the PEACE Middle East Dialog Group

December 3, 1998

Dear Ami,

In regard to your site on the massacre of Deir Yassin, if I may paraphrase Menachem Begin on the same subject, please accept my congratulations on your splendid act of conscience.  I thank you for your personal acknowledgment as well.

I was glad to suggest areas and materials for your independent research and
argumentation and I enjoyed as well your compelling and sometimes convincing
issues of disagreement over fact and ideology, and even more, your making
available to me and the public documentation and research hitherto
unavailable in English.

I have been working in cooperation with Deir Yassin Remembered on similar
research and archival projects and hope that the overall result of our separate but cooperative efforts, regardless of ideology or political differences, will lead to a real peace where Jews and Arabs can live in dignity, prosperity and security in Israel, Palestine, in the Middle East and all over the world.  I hope also that we have put a dent in the revisionism that seeks to deny reality and implicitly justify dehumanization such as we see in the ZOA report on Deir Yassin or much larger phenomena like Roger Garaudy and the Institute for Historical Review who seek to cover up the infamy of Auschwitz and Treblinka.

In any case, A plus as we say.

Sincerely,

Matthew Hogan