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Menachem Begin: Jewish Cook and Der Yasin’s Massacre

Noam Chomsky wrote:

Menachem Begin, the 6th prime minister of the Israeli Zionist entity captured by the Palestinian resistance in 1946. He was crying and begging them for his life, as he claimed he is a poor Jewish cook and his wife is sick. They unfortunately sympathized with him and was released. Two years later in 1948 he led a big group of Zionist Jewish terrorist gangs and committed the Der Yasin Village massacre, where more than 200 Palestinian children, women, elders and adults were savagely butchered

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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