Israel's Masscare Of Egyptian POW's

Egypt Wants Probe Into 'IDF Massacre'

By JPOST.COM STAFF
Mar. 3, 2007 13:52
Updated Mar. 3, 2007 23:01
JPost

The Jerusalem Post Reported Yesterday (March 3, 2007) That:

National Infrastructures Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer of Labor may be joining the long list of political officials currently under investigation, following a claim that the reconnaissance unit he commanded during the Six Day War killed 250 prisoners of war.

Egyptian parliamentarians are demanding that the IDF investigate whether Ben-Eliezer's elite Shaked unit killed the prisoners.

Dr. Mustafa al-Faki, chairman of the Egyptian legislature's Foreign Affairs Committee, denounced what he called the "massacre of helpless Egyptian soldiers," adding that it was the first time evidence had been presented proving that "Israeli hands are drenched with the blood of Egyptian prisoners."

Last week, Channel 1 aired Ruah Shaked (The Spirit of Shaked), a documentary compiled by journalist Ran Edilist. It claimed that Ben-Eliezer's unit killed 250 unarmed Egyptian prisoners of war in the Sinai desert after the fighting had stopped.

Edward Rali, head of the Egyptian parliament's Committee for Human Rights, called for his panel to meet on Sunday to discuss "the Israeli massacre of innocent Egyptian soldiers, which represents a serious violation of human rights and international law."

Ben-Eliezer, a former brigadier-general, told an Egyptian newspaper on Saturday that the accusations were inaccurate. Those killed, he said, were not Egyptian POWs, but rather Palestinian fedayun (suicide troops paid and trained by Egyptian intelligence) who were killed in battle.

Former education minister Yossi Sarid told Egypt's Al-Ahram that the "killing of prisoners of war is a war crime with no statute of limitations. The problem, however," said the former Meretz chairman, "is that the region is filled with war crimes."

Sarid told the paper he had not seen the documentary, but that he was aware that Israeli forces had committed such acts. "Punishing those responsible for these crimes is difficult due to the fact that 40 years have passed since the 1967 war, but history will judge these people," he said.

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Note what Yossi Sarid said:

He admitted that War Crimes have been committed by Israel against Egyptian POW's.

But, he is Justifying it due to the region being filled with "war crimes." So, what's with another War Crime committed is by Israel? This is the regions "MO," it's history and fate.

Also, Note him saying, "there is no statute of limitations on a war crime," BUT,

"40 years have passed since the 1967 War, but history will Judge these people."

So basically he's saying, "forget about it."

Too bad that Israel NEVER 'forgets about it," when someone kills an Israeli citizen, or a Jew during the Holocaust.

Didn't they hunt down Nazi War Criminals, long after WWII ended?

Didn't they hunt the the perpetrators of the Munich Olympic Massacre of Israeli atheletes, for years?

"Forget About It," applies to Arabs and non-Israeli's, only!

I've been hearing much about the above war crime that was perpetrated by the Israel Death Forces.

So, I decided to delve deeper into this tragedy. Through my investigation, I have uncovered a wealth of information. Not Just about this particular war crime, but about others that were committed by the Israel Death Forces when it launched 2 wars against Egypt.

(Not to mention, the many, many massacres committed by Jewish Terrorist Groups against the Palestionas--the Haganah, the Irgun, the Palmach, the Stern Gang--and the the massacres that were perpetrated by the Israel Death Forces against Israel's Arab neighbors, since that Pariah States inception).

The first Israeli know massacre (I deal with), was in 1956, when England, France and Israel launched an attack upon Egypt. The second was when Israel launched it's other act of aggression, 1967 War, against Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and occupying the Sinai Desert, the Golan Heights and annexing the West Bank.

The following is a PARTIAL list of sources I compiled, that reported the different war crimes committed by the Israel Death Forces against Egyptian POW's during Israel's 1956 & 1967 Wars of Aggression:


1. The End Of The Sharon Era: Monster Indeed:

By Den Valdron
Sunday, January 08, 2006 8:48:37 PM

A) On the subject of the murder of Prisoners of War in 1956, a typical report is found in Coastal Post online, at the following URL:
http://www.coastalpost.com/02/05/06.htm

A relevant quote is excerpted here:

"In 1956, Ariel Sharon was one of two commanding officers in the Sinai, at that time a highly volatile area. As commander of the paratroopers, he oversaw operations that killed 273 Egyptian prisoners of war in the Sinai in 3 separate incidents. Some of the dead were lined up and shot in a quarry, others in a closed truck while others were shot as they ran in retreat."

B) In addition, there's the Jewish News Weekly, Mideast Report, Friday, August 1995, which states:

"Earlier this month, a Jerusalem weekly quoted a retired IDF general as saying that he had killed dozens of Egyptian prisoners of war captured after an Israeli offensive in the Sinai Peninsula during the war. Retired Gen. Arieh Biro said his troops were stranded behind Egyptian lines with more than 40 Egyptian prisoners when they were given the order to move south in the Sinai. "I didn't have soldiers to guard them," he reportedly said. "We had to move on to Ras Sudar, so I decided to liquidate them." Biro's commanding officers at the time were Ariel Sharon, a Likud Knesset member and former defense minister, and Rafael Eitan, a Tsomet member of the Knesset and a former IDF chief of staff."

The URL Is:
http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/1709/edition_id/27/format/html/displaystory.html


Other renditions or reports connecting Sharon to executions of Prisoners of War can be found at multiple sources:

A google search of the terms "Sharon", "1956", and "Prisoners of War" turns up 16,900 reports.

The uncovering of the incidents apparently caused a major diplomatic rift between Israel and Egypt.

Source for all of the Above:
http://letters.salon.com/news/feature/2006/01/07/sharon/view/index3.html

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2. A SOLDIER'S CONFESSION:

Admitting to killing Egyptian POWs in 1956, a veteran stirs a nation's conscience

BY LISA BEYER
JERUSALEM
TIME Magazine
August 28, 1995 Volume 146, No. 9

The way retired Israeli general Arieh Biro tells the story doesn't leave much to the imagination. First, he says, the 49 Egyptian soldiers, taken prisoner by Israeli paratroopers in the 1956 war, were ordered to lie facedown on the ground. Next, Biro and a lieutenant raked their bodies with submachine gunfire.

"They didn't cry out. They were in shock," Biro, then a captain, says without emotion. "It was all over in a couple of minutes."

Actually, it's not over yet.

The disclosure that Israeli officers massacred Egyptian POWs in the 1956 war in the Sinai has generated similar allegations about the 1967 war and touched off a scandal that could reach Israel's leading political personalities.

...The new paper Yediot Aharonot this week concluded that the government-ordered investigation was necessary not only to satisfy Egyptians but "for our own sake, our conscience, our beliefs and our principles."

The tempest began last month when the army declassified an official report containing an account of the 1956 slaughter in the Sinai by the 890th paratrooper battalion.

Biro, who had been a company commander, stood up and took responsibility. By his account, his unit was ordered to move south and didn't have the means of taking the Egyptian captives along. Also, there was concern that the prisoners, if let go, would lead their advancing comrades to the Israeli troops.

And so they were shot. Biro, now 69, told reporters he has "ached over" his actions but added, "under the same circumstances, I think I would do it again."

More here:
http://www.time.com/time/international/1995/950828/israel.html

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3. OPENING GRAVE WOUNDS: EVIDENCE OF ISRAELI ATROCITIES DURING THE 1967 WAR WITH EGYPT:

FREDERICK PAINTON REPORTED BY AMANY RADWAN/CAIRO
AND ERIC SILVER/JERUSALEM
TIME Magazine
October 2, 1995 Volume 146, No. 14
http://www.time.com/time/international/1995/951002/middleeast.html

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4. Historian Alleges POW Deaths In 1956, 1967:

The Jewish Telegraph Agency, August 17, 1995

An Israeli military historian has said he knew of hundreds of Egyptian prisoners of war who were killed during the 1967 Six-Day War by Israel Defense Force troops, including a unit headed by the current Israeli housing minister.

Military historian Aryeh Yitzhaki of Bar-Illan University told Israel Radio on Wednesday that the killings involved a crack unit led by now Housing Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. Yitzhaki said the executions of 300 to 400 Egyptian commandos in El Arish was the worse case he knew, given that many of the Egyptians had surrendered.

They were killed by members of the Shaked commando unit under the command of Ben-Eliezer, a lieutenant colonel at the time, he said. Ben-Eliezer said he was unaware of any prisoner killings.

Referring to the Six-Day War, Yitzhaki said not only were the executions known, but a report he prepared in 1968 on the deaths was not released under instructions from higher authorities. Responding to the reports, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said he thought such incidents were exceptions to the norm and that they should be condemned by all.

A) Israelis Eexecuted 100's of Arab POWs:

By Aryeh Yitzhaki
Wednesday September 04, 2002 at 12:07 AM

Military historian Aryeh Yitzhaki said today that Israeli troops carried out several mass killings in 1967 in which about 1,000 Egyptian prisoners were slain in the Sinai. Yitzhaki, who worked in the army's history department after the war, said he and other officers collected testimony from dozens of solders who admitted killing POWs. He said a report on the killings submitted to his superiors has been locked in a safe at military headquarters.

B) ISRAEL REPORTEDLY KILLED POWS IN '67 WAR: HISTORIANS SAY DEATHS OF HUNDREDS OF EGYPTIANS WAS COVERED UP:

The Washington Post, August 17, 1995

Israeli soldiers killed hundreds of Egyptian prisoners of war during the 1967 Middle East war - deaths that commanders who are now prominent leaders have known about for years, historians said today.

The controversy involves some top politicians, including Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and legislator Rafael Eitan [who also gave us U.S. Navy spy Jonathan Pollard, and then lied about it], a former army chief. The allegations dominated news shows, shocking many Israelis who have long prized the notion that their army maintained high ethical standards throughout decades of warfare with the Arab world and military rule over Palestinians.

The Army spokesman, Brig. Gen. Amos Gilad, refused to comment. Rabin, who was chief of staff when some of the 1967 killings allegedly were committed, walked away today when a reporter shouted a related question. His office later issued a statement denouncing the killings and calling them isolated incidents.

C) DEBATE TAINTING IMAGE OF PURITY WRENCHES ISRAELIS:

A MORE OPEN SOCIETY TAKES UP KILLING OF POWS DURING WARS,
The Washington Post, August 19, 1995

D) RABIN REFUSES TO PROBE ALLEGED ISRAELI WAR CRIMES:

Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 21, 1995,

Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin rejected calls Sunday to investigate long-suppressed allegations of Israeli war crimes against Egyptian prisoners of war, saying both sides were guilty of aberrations.

E) AFTER A GENERAL TELLS OF KILLING POWS IN 1956:

ISRAELIS ARGUE OVER ETHICS OF WAR,
The New York Times, August 21, 1995

F) EGYPT SAYS ISRAELIS KILLED POWS IN '67 WAR:

The New York Times, September 21, 1995,

Egypt said today that it had discovered two mass graves in the Sinai [near El Arish] containing the remains of Egyptian prisoners of war and unarmed civilians shot by Israeli soldiers during the 1967 war. . . . At the same time, an Israeli historian said that as many as 300 unarmed Egyptian were killed in both the 1967 war and in the war of 1956. Those reports led to other allegations and revelations. . . . "I saw a line of prisoners, civilians and military, and they opened fire at them all at once," Mr. [Abdelsalam] Moussa was quoted as saying. "When they were dead, they told us to bury them. . . Al Ahram [an Egyptian newspaper] also quoted a bedouin, Suleman Moghnem Salameh, who said he saw Israelis kill about 30 Egyptian soldiers and officers after they surrendered, leaving them for the Bedouins to bury. . . . President Mubarak has called for an investigation in Israel and punishment of those responsible. Israel responded by sending Elli Dayan, a Deputy Foreign Minister, to discuss the matter. During his visit here, he offered compensation to the victims but noted Israel's 20-year statute of limitations.

Source For A to F:
http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2002/09/71413.php?l=en


5. 1,000+ Egyptian Military Officers Executed by Israeli Army in 1967:

Reprinted with permission from The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, May/June 1996

USS Liberty: Did Israel Commit One War Crime To Hide Another?
By James M. Ennes, Jr.

According to eyewitness accounts by Israeli officers and journalists, the Israeli Army - the army that claims to hold itself to a higher moral standard than other armies - executed as many as 1,000 Arab prisoners during the 1967 war.

Historian Gabby Bron wrote in the Yediot Ahronot in Israel that he witnessed Israeli troops executing Egyptian prisoners on the morning of June 8, 1967, in the Sinai town of El Arish.

Bron reported that he saw about 150 Egyptian POWs being held at the El Arish airport where they were sitting on the ground, densely crowded together with their hands held on the back of their necks.

Every few minutes, Bron writes, Israeli soldiers would escort an Egyptian POW from the group to a hearing conducted by two men in Israeli army uniforms. Then the man would be taken away, given a spade, and forced to dig his own grave.

"I watched as (one) man dug a hole for about 15 minutes," Bron wrote. "Afterwards, the (Israeli military) policeman told him to throw the shovel away, and then one of them leveled an Uzi at him and shot two short bursts, each of three or four bullets."

Bron says he witnessed about ten such executions, until the grave was filled. Then an Israeli Colonel threatened him with a revolver, forcing him to leave the area.

USS Liberty Was Nearby:

As those executions were underway, America's most sophisticated intelligence platform, USS Liberty, was less than 13 miles from El Arish.

We were close enough to see the town mosque with the naked eye. With binoculars we could make out individual buildings and might have seen the executions if we had looked in the right place.

More Here:
Article Published on U.S.S. Liberty Memorial Pages, March 27, 1998


Also:

EGYPTIAN MASSACRE 1967: 1000 Plus Eegyptian Officer's Are Executed In The Desert "Nazi Style" By Israeli Forces Before Making Them Dig There Own Graves.
http://www.ussliberty.org


6. Prisoners' Massacre:

Courtesy Of: YouTube
Added: July 28, 2006
From: aiuqwo
RunTime: 04:09

POW mass graves by israeli military on 1967

Credits: - An interview by Daryl Bradford Smith with former US Officer James Ennes of USS Liberty, 1967- Historian Gabby Bron wrote in the Yediot Ahronot

"On the morning of June 8, 1967, in the Sinai town of El Arish, Israeli troops systematically butchered 1000+ Egyptian Prisoners of War."

James Ennes - US officer aboard American USS Liberty ship attacked by Israeli Defense Forces:

"In hindsight...they were doing heinous things in that desert against Prisoners of War..."

"...There was even a hint at DISPOSAL of several hundred of POW's..."

"...The Israeli's would require these prisoners to dig their own graves, then machinegun them..."

Gabby Bron, Yediot Ahronot, 1967:

"I watched as (an Egyptian) man dug a hole for about 15 minutes...(Israeli military) leveled an Uzi at him and shot two burts, each of three or four bullets."

How Does It Feel If Someone Asks You To Dig Your "Own Grave?

When Will Justice Prevail???