Qibya: Civilian Massacre or Military Operation?

Unpacking Israeli History

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Qibya is one of the saddest and most difficult events in Israeli history. A military unit enters a village, and when the raid is over, 43 homes had been demolished, and 69 civilians – mostly women and children – had been killed. This week, Noam asks, what happened here, and how does it impact the story we tell ourselves about Israel?

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This season of Unpacking Israeli History is generously sponsored by Marci & Andrew Spitzer and Barbara Sommer & Alan Fisher, and this episode is generously sponsored by the Center For Advancement of Jewish Education, and The Jewish Federation of Northern NJ.

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Bibliography:

• Daniel Gordis, “Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn.”
• Howard Sachar, “A History of Israel, From the Birth of Zionism to Our Time.”
• Sapir Journal on power, vol 2, 2021.
• Rise and Kill First, Ronen Bergman
• On the Kanias family
• https://www.haaretz.co.il/misc/1.853441
• https://www.sharett.org.il/downloads/doc-pics/doc03486.pdf
• On Israel’s GDP: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?end=2020&locations=ZQ&most_recent_value_desc=true&start=2020&view=map
• On tzenna (austerity): https://gould.usc.edu/why/students/orgs/ilj/assets/docs/18-1%20Seidman.pdf
• On Israeli borders:
• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-54116567#:~:text=The%20fighting%20ended%20in%201949,Bank%20(occupied%20by%20Jordan)
• https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/arm01.asp
• On Moshe Dayan:
• Mordechai Bar-On, “Moshe Dayan: Israel’s Controversial Hero.”
• https://jiss.org.il/en/henkin-high-price-blood-israels-security-doctrines/#:~:text=The%20Dayan%20doctrine%20was%20designed,war%20of%20attrition%20against%20Israel
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzVrRStVo9k&ab_channel=ThamesTv
• On Ariel Sharon:
• https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ariel-Sharon,
• “Warrior: The autobiography of Ariel Sharon,” p. 1989
• Battle for Latrun: https://www.jpost.com/israel-guide/tel-aviv-and-center-tours/latrun-the-battle-for-latrun
• Participant account of Qibye (note he wasn’t actually in the village, he was outside of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nQpBsvdzZ4&ab_channel=ToldotYisrael)
• Letter to UN Security Council from Jordanian envoy: https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-185828/
• On the aftermath: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2538005,