Posted on 11/09/2022 11:58:31 AM PST by Words Matter
They want to preserve the honor of the dead, also of the other side
The geographer Yehuda Ziv investigated and revealed the true story of Mount Pilots, and cleared the Arab residents of the nearby village of the guilt that stuck to them. Now he works to protect their cemetery
Nir Hasson, 02 June 2012
Three months after the crash, when the village of al-Omur no longer existed, and the area was occupied by the Harel Brigade, a delegation of Palmach personnel arrived at the scene led by Isser Halamish, the patrol officer of the 6th Battalion in the brigade and Ziv's commander, and Sharga Yanovsky of the Air Force. The delegation was joined by Also Binyamin Sheinboim, the father of Yariv Sheinboim, one of the pilots who were killed. They were looking for information that would help them trace the fate of the pilots. The delegation first arrived at the agricultural school located in Eitanim, now a hospital, where they arrested the director of the hospital, Ahmed Khaladi, the last one left in the place Halamish promised Khaladi that he would be released in exchange for information about the fate of the pilots.
Khaladi directed them to the Al-Alyan family, who were already staying in Abu Ghosh. Before his release, Haladi had time to give Halamish a gift to strengthen the deal. "He went to the barn at the school and pulled out a rifle, it was the rifle that Haj Amin Al Husseini received from Hitler," says Ziv. The rifle, with a swastika on it, is today housed in the IDF Museum in Tel Aviv. The members of the delegation located the family members and with their help the bodies were finally brought to a mass grave in the military cemetery in Kiryat Anavim.
Interesting post.
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Lol
I have a battlefield pickup Mauser 98 inherited from my father. It has three stamped swastikas on it. I agree with an earlier posting that virtually all weapons made in the Nazi period probably had a swastika on it somewhere.
One of the few good things (lefty biased) PBS has, is its antique road show..
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