Publicado no Haaretz
GENEVA, New York - A 1948 attack by a Jewish militia on an Arab village drew an unlikely cast of visitors Wednesday to this small town in rural New York.
A group of Palestinians, Israelis and Americans dedicated a bronze statue of an uprooted olive tree to mark the attack that killed more than 100 Arabs in Deir Yassin, in what is now Israel.
In the struggle for Middle East peace, "it's very disturbing when one side's history is systematically ignored," said Daniel McGowan, who launched Deir Yassin Remembered in 1994. "It would be like nobody wanting to talk about the Holocaust when you talked about Jews."
The attack on April 9, 1948, killed anywhere from 108 to 254 villagers - the number is still debated - and accelerated Israeli expropriation of land."
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