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The
massacre of Kibya on October 14, 1953, was a continuation of such
brutal, inhuman massacres as the King David Hotel (1946), Semiramis
Hotel (1948) and Deir Yassin (1948). But it was also a watershed in
one of the most sinister grand designs in military history-- the
deliberate turning of an entire officer corps into a cabal with
share personal guilt for vicious war crimes.
The Nazis organized a separate all-volunteer army, under Heinrich
Himmler, the Waffen SS. The SS was responsible for the majority of
the German war atrocities. In 1953, Ben-Gurion established an SS
equivalent in the Zahal, designated as Commando Unit 101. This
all-volunteer unit was responsible for the Kibya massacre and was
given exemption from the rules of war as if the Geneva Convention
never existed. The first, and only, commander of Commando Unit 101
was Ariel Sharon, the single person most responsible in 1982 for the
notorious Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut, Lebanon.
The guilt of Commando Unit 101 was in the most sinister fashion
extended first to the Israeli Airborne Forces, and subsequently to
the entire career officer corps of the Israeli Army. Sharon
maneuvered the resignation of the professional commander of the
Israeli paratroops along with Commando Unit 101 and into Unit 202 of
the Israeli Army.
The professionalism of the Israeli Airborne troops was thus
destroyed, turning all Israeli paratroopers, not just the
participants in the Kibya Massacre, into common criminals and
murderers of innocent men, women and children.
The Zionists, having destroyed the professionalism of their own
Airborne Force, proceeded to destroy the professionalism of the
entire career Officer Corps of the Israeli Defense Forces. No senior
officer of the IF could gain promotion without prior service in the
paratroops, and all paratroopers shared in war crimes guilt through
assignments given them to murder civilians and to commit other acts
illegal under the Geneva Convention.
According to an authoritative survey of the Israeli Army: “The
silver parachute ‘jump wings’ are worn by almost all Zahal officers,
as it is normally a required qualification.”
The Government of Israel at the time claimed that the Kibya Massacre
was performed by “civilian Jewish settlers.” But the historical
record shows that it was sanctioned by acting Prime Minister Moshe
Sharrett, and was planned by Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon, the
Chief of the General Staff Mordecai Maklef, and the Chief of
Operations, General Moshe Dayan, in concert with vacationing Israeli
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion.
Despite the Israeli Government’s attempt at cover-up, word spread of
their responsibility for the Kibya Massacre and Ariel Sharon’s role
ultimately came out in connection with this crime. No less a Zionist
figure than I.L.Kenen, the founding father of AIPAC (American
Israeli Public Affairs Committee), the official Israeli lobby in the
United States, revealed in his Memoirs:
I was on my way home on the subway, headed for Riverdale, when I
heard a brief news flash in the World Telegram disclosing that 66
Arabs had been killed at Kibya as Israelis sought to avenge the
slaughter of an Israeli family. I did not know until years later
that the raid was ordered by Ariel Sharon, the Israeli commander who
led the invasion of Lebanon in 1982.
At 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 14, 1953, Israeli troops attacked
the border Jordanian village of Kibya, Northwest of Jerusalem. Seven
hundred regular Israeli troops participated in the attack in which
mortars, machine guns, rifles and explosives were used. Forty-two
houses as well as the school and the mosque of the village were
dynamited. Every man, woman and child found by the criminal
attackers was killed; all in all, 75 innocent villagers were
murdered in cold blood that night. Later, the attackers turned their
fire on the cattle, killing 22 cows. The attack was the bloodiest
most brutal Zionist crime since the infamous Deir Yassin massacre of
1948.
The Jordanian Government immediately informed the Truce Supervision
Organization of the attack. The signatories of the Three Power
Declaration of 1950 (USA, Britain and France) were also informed of
the serious consequences of the despicable Zionist aggression.
The Arab Legion cancelled all leaves, thousands of persons
demonstrated in the streets of Amman, Nablus and Old Jerusalem
asking for arms to avenge the innocent victims of Kibya. The Jordan
Cabinet held a series of meetings with military chiefs to discuss
measures to be taken to deal with the situation resulting from the
Zionist attack. After a two-hour meeting, the Jordan-Israeli Mixed
Armistice Commission convicted Israel of the Kibya aggression.
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