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Netanyahu likely to extend secrecy of some 1948 war documents 20 more years

Defense establishment asked to lengthen classification period to 90 years, from 70, for material on Deir Yassin massacre, among other events

Jonathan Lis and Ofer Aderet Oct 04, 2018

▻https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-netanyahu-likely-to-extend-secrecy-of-some-1948-war-documents-20-m

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to sign regulations extending the period of confidentiality for information in the defense archives from 70 years to 90 years. The Defense Ministry and other organization requested the extension to prevent the release this year of some materials relating to the period of the War of Independence in 1948.
The extension is intended to prevent the exposure of intelligence sources and methods that are still in use today by security forces. The archives also include information that was received from foreign sources under the condition that it would not be released, say defense officials. The draft regulations state that even after 70 years have passed, exposure of some of the archival materials could harm national security. In 2010, Netanyahu extended the period of confidentiality for security archives from 50 years to 70 years.
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The legal adviser to the Israel State Archives, Naomi Aldubi, circulated a draft of the new regulations to the relevant government ministries Wednesday. The document states that the new regulations will apply to materials held by the Shin Bet security service, the Mossad and the archives of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, nuclear research centers and the Israel Institute for Biological Research. The new rules would also prevent the publication of raw intelligence from Military Intelligence as well as information concerning intelligence gathering for materials classified as secret and higher, along with materials concerning certain Israel Defense Forces and Defense Ministry units.
The decision is expected to make life much more difficult for historians, other researchers and journalists and would also limit the public’s access to valuable historical information of public interest. For example, the new regulations would prevent the release of certain materials concerning the massacre at Deir Yassin in 1948.
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In practice, the government will be able to prevent the release of any document related to the War of Independence that it wishes to keep secret. The new rules also contradict the recommendations of the supreme advisory council overseeing the Israel State Archives, which recommended extending the confidentiality of only some of the documents for five years.

The Archives Law states that any person has the right to examine documents stored in the state archives, but also grants the government authority to restrict access according to the level of classification — for example, materials classified as “secret” — and according to the amount of time that has passed since the materials were created. This period ranges between 15 and 75 years, in accordance with the materials’ source and contents. For example, the classification period for the minutes of classified sessions of Knesset committees is limited to 20 years; for foreign policy documents the period is 25 years; for police archives, 30 years and for minutes of the security cabinet 50 years. Intelligence materials, including those of the Shin Bet, Mossad, Atomic Energy Commission and Biological Institute, remain classified for 70 years.
Even after this period expires, the state archives and other archives, such as the IDF Archives, have not acted on their own initiative to release the materials. In practice, the end of the classification period alone is not sufficient for automatic declassification of the material. First, the chief archivist must examine the materials. After that, a special ministerial committee, headed by the justice minister, has the right to apply additional restrictions on access to them.
The committee used its power to prohibit access to the so-called Riftin report on extrajudicial executions carried out by the Haganah pre-independence army. In 1998, half a century after the report was written, its confidentiality period expired, after which it should have been unsealed. In the 20 years that have passed since then, two state archivists requested, and received, extensions of the classification period from the ministerial committee.
The draft proposal does stipulate that the relevant organizations must draw up new protocols that would enable the unsealing of classified materials after 50 years, on their own initiative. In addition, they would be instructed to conduct an annual review of their classified documents in order to determine whether they can be declassified.

Témoignages du massacre censuré de Deir Yassin : « Ils ont empilé les corps, et ils les ont brûlés »
18 juillet | Ofer Aderet pour Haaretz |Traduction JPP pour l’AURDIP
▻http://www.aurdip.fr/temoignages-du-massacre-censure-de.html

Un jeune garçon est attaché à un arbre et on y met le feu. Une femme et un vieil homme abattus dans le dos. Des filles sont alignées contre un mur et abattues à la mitraillette. Les témoignages recueillis par la cinéaste Neta Shoshani sur le massacre à Deir Yassin sont difficiles à traiter, même 70 ans après les faits.

Depuis deux ans maintenant, un document dont la lecture est difficile est déposé aux archives de l’association pour commémorer l’héritage du Lehi – les combattants pour la liberté d’Israël, milice clandestine d’avant l’État. Il a été rédigé par un membre de la clandestinité il y a environ 70 ans. Le lire peut rouvrir une blessure saignante de l’époque de la Guerre d’indépendance qui, jusqu’à ce jour, suscite beaucoup d’émotion dans la société israélienne.

« Vendredi dernier ensemble avec Etzel » - l’acronyme pour l’Organisation militaire nationale, connue aussi sous le nom d’Irgoun, autre milice clandestine antérieure à l’État, dirigée par Menachem Begin – « notre mouvement a mené une opération violente pour occuper le village arabe sur la route de Jérusalem à Tel Aviv : Deir Yassin. J’ai participé à cette opération de la façon la plus active », écrit Yehuda Feder, dont le nom de guerre au Lehi (connu aussi comme Groupe Stern) était « Giora ».

Plus loin dans la lettre, il décrit en détail sa part dans le massacre qui a eu lieu ici. « C’était la première fois dans ma vie que par mes mains et sous mes yeux des Arabes tombaient. Dans le village, j’ai tué un Arabe armé et deux filles arabes de 16 ou 17 ans, venues aider l’Arabe qui avait été abattu. Je les ai placées contre un mur et je les ai mitraillées avec deux rafales de l’arme d’un Tommy », écrit-il, décrivant comment il a procédé à l’exécution des filles avec une mitraillette.

Dans le même temps, il raconte le pillage avec ses copains dans le village une fois occupé. « Nous avons confisqué beaucoup d’argent et de bijoux en argent et en or, tombés entre nos mains » écrit-il. Il conclut la lettre avec les mots : « Ce fut une opération violente et c’est avec raison que la gauche nous diffame à nouveau ».

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traduction en français de l’article signalé ici : ▻https://seenthis.net/messages/615277

’Barbarism by an educated and cultured people’ — #Dawayima #massacre was worse than #Deir_Yassin
▻http://mondoweiss.net/2016/02/barbarism-by-an-educated-and-cultured-people-dawayima-massacre-was-worse

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“There was no battle and no resistance (and no Egyptians). The first conquerors killed from eighty to a hundred Arabs [including] women and children. The children were killed by smashing of their skulls with sticks. Is it possible to shout about Deir Yassin and be silent about something much worse?” For the first time ever, a letter quoting one of the Israeli soldiers who were part of the Al-Dawayima massacre in October 1948 is published in full.

On Friday, February 5th 2016, Haaretz published an article in Hebrew by Israeli historian Yair Auron, which covers one of the biggest massacres of 1948. The massacre is of Al Dawayima, west of Al-Khalil (which is often referred to as Hebron). In a 2004 interview with Haaretz, Israeli historian Benny Morris refers to this as a massacre of “hundreds”.

After the massacre, a letter was sent to the editor of the leftist affiliated newspaper Al-Hamishmar, but never published. As Auron notes, there are still many archives of the time which are classified. Auron also states that there was an investigation that was never concluded and “died out” as a massive amnesty was provided to military personnel in February 1949.

This is a very exhaustive article, but I found it useful enough to translate this letter in full on its own. The letter, which first “disappeared,’ was provided to Auron by historian Benny Morris. Although these matters have been referred to in passing in historical summaries, the letter has never been published before in full.

Il y a 66 ans, des extrémistes de l’Irgoun assassinaient au moins 200 musulmans à Deir Yassin. Un tournant

▻http://www.letemps.ch/Page/Uuid/a0ef7b16-011b-11e3-9228-2a7d5c3bbd90/1948_face_au_massacre_de_Deir_Yassin

Aujourd’hui, anniversaire du massacre de #Deir_Yassin.

Deir Yassin Remembered
▻http://www.deiryassin.org

Early in the morning of April 9, 1948, commandos of the Irgun (headed by Menachem Begin) and the Stern Gang attacked Deir Yassin, a village with about 750 Palestinian residents. The village lay outside of the area to be assigned by the United Nations to the Jewish State; it had a peaceful reputation. But it was located on high ground in the corridor between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Deir Yassin was slated for occupation under Plan Dalet and the mainstream Jewish defense force, the Haganah, authorized the irregular terrorist forces of the Irgun and the Stern Gang to perform the takeover.

In all over 100 men, women, and children were systematically murdered. Fifty-three orphaned children were literally dumped along the wall of the Old City, where they were found by Miss Hind Husseini and brought behind the American Colony Hotel to her home, which was to become the Dar El-Tifl El-Arabi orphanage.