Qibya: Civilian Massacre or Military Operation?

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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?

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,