- Israel Used to Cover Up the War Crimes It Committed. Not Today

 Artikkel i Haaretz 2. desember 2025:



Opinion |
Israel Used to Cover Up the War Crimes It Committed. Not Today

The filmmaker Ram Loevy, who died this week, spent much of his life pursuing an off-screen mission: exposing one of the gravest war crimes in the history of the Israel Defense Forces

Egyptiske soldater, som hadde overgitt seg til IDF i 1967, ble henrettet og lagt i massegrav:

In the summer of 2000, an Egyptian bulldozer uncovered a mass grave in Ras Sudr containing 52 bodies – the forensic evidence that confirmed the soldiers' testimonies. Loevi directed a semi-fictional series called "Retzach, Metzalmim" ("Murder, We're Filming") about the event, but the walls of silence did not crack. Haaretz journalist Avichai Becker followed in his footsteps and interviewed the reserve soldiers from Ras Sudr, including the company commander who had ordered the murders. The censor blocked it.

Skudeneshavn    2. desember

Jan Marton Jensen

Kilde:

2.desember 2025
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-12-02/ty-article-opinion/.premium/an-israeli-dissidents-lifelong-fight-to-expose-what-the-idf-tried-to-keep-hidden/0000019a-db57-db2e-a9de-fb7f5d640000

Nir Hasson i Haaretz etter massakre i Gaza av 15 ambulansefolk:- IDFs utsagn er "alternative fakta"

Artikkel av Nir Hasson i Haaretz 21. april 2025, se Kilde:

"Analysis |

"Killing of Gaza Paramedics Proves Some IDF Claims Are Just Alternative Facts"

Hasson gjennomgår hvordan IDF i denne saken har løyet og løyet.
Og trekker paralleller til lignende tilfeller.
Konklusjonen er: IDF følger ikke reglene, og dette bare fortsetter.

En avslørende gjennomgang av journalist Nir Hasson.

Skudeneshavn    22. april 2025

Jan Marton Jensen

Kilde:
21. april 2025
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-04-21/ty-article/.premium/killing-of-the-aid-workers-proves-many-idf-claims-are-just-alternative-facts/00000196-5556-d0f1-abf6-757e476c0000?lts=1745336254474

IDF bomber ambulanser og brannbiler i Gaza III - Uttalelse fra Røde Halvmåne

 Oppsummerende artikkel i The Guardian:

"Gaza paramedics shot in upper body ‘with intent to kill’, Red Crescent says"

"PRCS calls for international investigation after postmortem results add to evidence contradicting Israel’s account"

Undersøkelser viser at IDF har løyet og løyet om hva som skjedde.
Røde Halvmåne krever internasjonal gransking.

Skudeneshavn   8. april 2025

Jan Marton Jensen

Ny Info:
16. april 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/16/autopsies-of-rescue-workers-killed-in-gaza-show-gunshots-to-head-and-torso

Kilde:
7. april 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/07/gaza-paramedics-shot-in-upper-body-with-intent-to-kill-red-crescent-says

IDF bomber ambulanser og brannbiler i Gaza II - Uttalelse av Geoffrey Nice

Vurdering av den britiske menneskerettsjurist Geoffrey Nice om IDF massakre av ambulansepersonnell i Rafah.
Utdrag av artikkel i Al Jazeera, se Kilde:

"Geoffrey Nice, a top British human rights lawyer and lead prosecutor at Slobodan Milosevic’s 2002 trial, has called on the international community to put more pressure on the Israeli government to fully explain its role in the medics’ killings in Gaza.

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Nice said “it would be very hard to believe” that those involved in the massacre of the medical workers were “rogue elements” of the Israeli military.

“When you have the people, who can send the bulldozers and their diggers, the people who send out the public relations information, which turned out [to] be false, it is very hard to believe that this is a rogue element,” he said.

“If it is not a rogue element, then what’s being done is in accordance with the practice and accepted practice within the [Israeli army], and that’s going to be something very difficult to confront. Without better justification, or any justification, this is a terribly serious war crime,” Nice added.

Skudeneshavn   6. april 2025

Jan Marton Jensen

Kilde:
6. april 2025
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/6/israel-detains-two-british-mps-on-parliamentary-delegation

6 skoler i Øst-Jerusalem mister lisens?

 Jerusalem Post 28. juli 2022
"6 east Jerusalem schools placed on conditional licenses due to textbook incitement"
"Textbooks at the schools glorified Palestinian prisoners and made claims of killings, deportations and massacres by the IDF."

Det rare er at samme dag frigis i Israel informasjon om massakren i Qfr Kasem i 1956.
Det tok 66 år.

Skudeneshavn  29. juli 2022

Jan Marton Jensen 

På Twitter:
30. juli 2022
https://twitter.com/janmarton/status/1553307924524679168

Kilde:

29. juli 2022
https://miff.no/opplaering-i-hat/2022/07/296-skoler-i-ost-jerusalem-ble-satt-under-okt-tilsyn-etter-a-ha-oppfordret-til-hat-mot-israel-og-idf.htm

28. juli 2022
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-713364

Palestinsk kommentar til sannheten om massakre i Tantura

I en kommentar i Haaretz gir  innsender Sheren Falah Saab en klar melding om den siste avsløring om at massakrene skjer gjennom en israelsk film.

Hun sier: Dette har palestinerne visst hele tiden:

"Despite Palestinian testimonies about the massacre, proof and approval of the knowledge is still required from Jews to prove that a massacre indeed occurred, and not just from any Jews, but from fighters who were part of that colonial apparatus."

Og så går hun gjennom hele den tildekkingen Israel har gjort og gjør mht sannheten om palestinernes historie ... deres landsbyer , hus og hjem.

Tankevekkende.

Om hvem man tror på når det begås forbrytelser.

 

Er det forbryteren?

Når det burde være offeret ...

Skudeneshavn   27. januar 2022

Jan Marton Jensen

 

Kilde:

25. januar 2022

 

HELE artikkelen i Haaretz 25. januar 2022

Palestinians Have Talked About the Tantura Massacre, but a Jewish Film Made It Fact

Sheren Falah Saab January 25, 2022

Tantura residents flee their village, May 1948. Benno Rothenberg / Meitar Collection, Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, National Library of Israel

The day Palestinians’ native knowledge is legitimized and acceptable to Israeli ears, Jewish filmmakers and researchers will be able to spare us the embarrassing and subjugating reminder time after time. Tantura, as you have just discovered, illustrates the mechanisms of silencing and erasure that serve the Zionist narration of history – as all the information is buried in the archives just like Palestinians were buried without anyone knowing of their existence.

Gideon Levy wrote about the ghosts of Tantura, but the story extends much deeper than what you might think you know. It is a story about the control of knowledge, when the Zionist sovereign is the sole party responsible for burying the Nakba in various ways – in archives, by planting forests, through erasure. It’s the same mechanism that reinforces the Zionist supremacy that time after time gazes upon the Nakba “from above,” as if it had nothing to do with it.

Despite Palestinian testimonies about the massacre, proof and approval of the knowledge is still required from Jews to prove that a massacre indeed occurred, and not just from any Jews, but from fighters who were part of that colonial apparatus.

Over a decade ago, the Egyptian writer Radwa Ashour wrote the book “The Woman from Tantura” that was translated into English. The book is based on testimonies from the Tantura and includes testimonies from Palestinian men and women (because there were also women who were trapped in the cellars or escaped) who were there. But the book did not meet the test of the Zionist left, and also elicited an outcry from so-called Middle East experts who recite the Zionist line, denying the evidence and even claiming that Ashour was a liar and not credible.

Until just recently, they would have all said there was no massacre in Tantura. These are the same sort of voices that continually reject every testimony from Palestinians regarding 1948. Why should we believe the Palestinians? Who are they anyway? You’re right. You need a Jew to make a movie and present the testimony of Jews, who are the only credible and acceptable witnesses. And not just any Jews: It has to be the ones who committed the massacre.

So you’re horrified by the fact that there is a mass grave under the Dor Beach parking lot? Wait until you find out what happened to the Palestinian village of Bar’am whose inhabitants were expelled in 1948. The site is now called Kibbutz Bar’am. It was built on the ruins of the Palestinian houses that are within the national park there. The residents were not permitted to return to their village, as the ruins of the houses and the church of the village and the descendants of those who were expelled will testify. You don’t feel the ghosts when you’re on your hike in the national park there?

And what about Asqalan, now known as Ashkelon? And Um Rash-Rash now called Eilat, and Bisan now called Beit She’an? And if that’s not enough for you, you can go around the north where ghosts hover over every corner of the JNF forests adjacent to the Palestinian villages of Suhmata, Aqrath, Ibtan and Al-Bassa.

These names have no meaning to you. Now the cool thing is to talk about “Tantura” because the fighters who were there broke their silence, partially, in broken words. The sad thing is that in the whole film about Tantura, there is no genuine expression of remorse over what was done. I waited to hear something like that, but to them, an order is an order and was not to be questioned. Even now, the Zionist mechanisms of denial will work overtime to cast doubt on these testimonies. That’s how it works – confess, deny, erase, whitewash.

Indigenous Palestinian knowledge is more meaningful and valuable than any movie, but is given no outlet for expression or legitimacy in Israel, not even among the Zionist left. It’s so much more comfortable to be shocked from the side, because that doesn’t require any deep thought about the way in which the Palestinians’ history is being erased. Welcome to Tantura and all the other places like it.

Sheren Falah Saab

 

Massakre i Tantura 1948

OMSIDER ... i 2022 erkjennes det.

 

"There's a Mass Palestinian Grave at a Popular Israeli Beach, Veterans Confess"
The Israeli veterans of the 1948 battle at Tantura village finally come clean about the mass killing of Arabs that took place after the village's surrender.  (Haaretz 20. januar 2022, se Kilde)

 

Det VAR en massakre i 1948 i Tantura.

Israelsk milits fra Alexandroni-brigaden har nektet og nektet.

Og til og med ført rettsak om temaet.

 

Men sannheten vinner alltid.

Nå vet man hvor massegravene er. 

Hva gjør man da? 

Graver opp massegravene?

 

Og hva gjør man med Haifa University? 

Som satte stryk-karakter på sannheten som Theodore Katz viste i sin avhandling om temaet?

 

Blir sannheten et tema?

 

 

Skudeneshavn  23. januar 2022

 

Jan Marton Jensen

 

På Twitter:

24. januar 2022
https://twitter.com/janmarton/status/1485505042681679872 

 

Ny info:

23. januar 2022
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-ghosts-of-tantura-1.10558131
 

Kilde:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantura

20. januar 2022
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-there-s-a-mass-palestinian-grave-at-a-popular-israeli-beach-veterans-confess-1.10553968

25. april 2020
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-why-didn-t-you-tell-us-about-the-palestinian-village-of-tantura-1.8798595 

23. mai 2002
https://www.haaretz.com/1.5186225

Tilspissing av konflikten på Balkan - Det kan bli ny krig

Konflikten i Bosnia mht til den serbiske minoritet der  ... den eskalerer.
Og partene trekker Israel inn i konflikten.
Dette er så alvorlig at det kan bli ny krig på Balkan.

"Dangerous New Crisis Brewing in the Balkans. And Israel Is Involved"
An Israeli holocaust historian recruited for a controversial panel, a Bosnian-Serb leader's visit to Jerusalem, and now a letter to Yair Lapid seeking action on the issue of genocide denial. How a Balkan crisis came to Israel. (Haaretz 14. des 2021)

Eskalering av konflikt.
Det begynnere med ordene ...  

Her må UD følge med og vurdere påtrykk på aktørene. 

 

EDIT: 

31.desember 2021

Da har Tyskland trukket tilbake medaljetildeling til Gideon Greif:

"Germany Cancels Award to Israeli Historian Accused of Genocide Denial" 

(Haartez 30.12.2021)

 

 

Skudeneshavn  17. desember 2021/31. desember 2021

Jan Marton Jensen

På Twitter:

2. januar 2022
https://twitter.com/janmarton/status/1477724395149930504

 

Mer Ny info:

1. februar 2022   Kraftig ytring om Gideon Greif
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-how-a-holocaust-historian-became-a-genocide-denier-1.10578793

2. januar 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/02/world/europe/bosnia-war-putin.html

Ny info:

30. desember 2021
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-germany-cancels-award-to-israeli-historian-accused-of-genocide-denial-1.10504820

20. desember 2021
https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium-rewriting-history-like-goebbels-why-the-far-right-is-whitewashing-genocide-1.10477989

Kilde:

14. desember 2021
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/in-new-balkans-crisis-both-sides-seek-legitimacy-and-aid-from-israel-1.10462204

6. desember 2021
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/there-s-no-genocide-denial-bosnian-serb-leader-s-heated-talk-with-haaretz-1.10440855

Israelske massakrer i 1948: Nye opplysninger om flere massakrer

"Classified Docs Reveal Massacres of Palestinians in '48 – and What Israeli Leaders Knew"

Testimonies continue to pile up, documents are revealed, and gradually a broader picture emerges of the acts of murder committed by Israeli troops during the War of Independence. Minutes recorded during cabinet meetings in 1948 leave no room for doubt: Israel's leaders knew in real time about the blood-drenched events that accompanied the conquest of the Arab villages.

The discussions were fraught with emotion. Cabinet minister Haim-Moshe Shapira said that all of Israel’s moral foundations had been undermined. Minister David Remez remarked that the deeds that had been done remove us from the category of Jews and from the category of human beings altogether. Other ministers were also appalled: Mordechai Bentov wondered what kind of Jews would be left in the country after the war; Aharon Zisling related that he had had a sleepless night – the criminals, he said, were striking at the soul of the whole government. Some ministers demanded that the testimonies be investigated and that those responsible be held to account. David Ben-Gurion was evasive. In the end, the ministers decided on an investigation. The result was the establishment of the “committee to examine cases of murder in [by] the army.”

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Ovenstående er fra en fersk artikkel i Haaretz 9. desember 2021

En artikkel fra 5. juli 2019 om samme sak (se under Kilde) viser at mange dokumenter sensureres og holdes borte fra offentligheten.

I 2021 er det på tide at Israel frigir  hemmeligholdte dokumenter fra 1948.

EDIT:
12. desember 2021  Lederartikkel i Haaretz (se Ny info)
"Israel's 'Most Moral Army in the World' Can't Keep Running Away From Its Past"

Skudeneshavn  9. desember/12.desember  2021

Jan Marton Jensen 

På Twitter:

12. desember 2021
https://twitter.com/janmarton/status/1470016817464811527

Ny info:

12. desember 2021    Lederartikkel i Haaretz
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/israel-s-most-moral-army-in-the-world-can-t-keep-running-away-from-its-past-1.10458062

Kilde:

9. desember 2021
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-classified-docs-reveal-deir-yassin-massacre-wasn-t-the-only-one-perpetrated-by-isra-1.10453626

5. juli 2019
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-how-israel-systematically-hides-evidence-of-1948-expulsion-of-arabs-1.7435103