By danielmenchaca on JUNE 12, 2020 “The memory of what was done in Lubya, like the memory of all the other heinous acts that preceded it, will shame its destructive perpetrators forever.” These damning words were published 81 years ago in the Davar daily of the Labor movement. A few weeks earlier, in the summer of 1939, members of the Haganah – the underground army of compulsory Palestinian Jews founded by the movement before independence – had murdered two men and a woman and injured a young girl and a toddler. All of them were innocent Arabs from the village of Lubya in Lower Galilee, who were shot at home in the middle of the night. The killings, which were described as revenge attacks for the murder of a Jew by villagers in Lubya, were carried out by members of the Haganah Special Forces. Every man who participated in the mission has a place of honor in local history books: the oldest was Yigal Allon, who later headed the Palmach (the Haganah’s elite strike force) and be...
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