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This article badly needs to be expanded. If we compare this to the article 'Deir Yassin massacre', the difference is striking. Please join in and expand. --Daniel575 | (talk) 14:15, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Survivor accounts

There is nothing wrong with the account of Rabbi Kaplan. If anybody minds the site which it is hosted on, I will place it on my own site and link to that. That solves that problem. All survivor accounts are welcome, whether they are pro-Zionist or anti-Zionist. I believe the account by Rabbi Kaplan to be fully factual and correct. If anybody disagrees, they are welcome to add other survivor accounts also. But deleting this one merely because it does not portray the Zionists in a positive light is crazy. It was written by a very well-respected rabbi who later became the head of one of the biggest Jewish girl's schools in New York. His religious views on Zionism are not controversial either, they are held by hundreds of thousands of other Haredi Jews. --Daniel575 | (talk) 14:15, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Can you provide a reliable source for his quotation ? Amoruso 14:20, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

As it says, it is a transcript from a speech he held in Yiddish. I have spoken to people who knew him. He died a while ago. The speech can be found on several websites, and is well known in Haredi circles. There is nothing unreliable about it. There are also German and Dutch translations of it around. --Daniel575 | (talk) 14:23, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Ok. now, I propse deleting this . And have a "see also" for 1929 riots. :

The other major centers of violence were in Safed, where 18 Jews were killed in a brief attack.

During the week of riots, the fatalities were:

Killed: 133 Jews, 116 Arabs.

Wounded: 339 Jews, 232 Arabs.

Amoruso 14:25, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

"Rabbi Kaplans tape is available in the Otzer Emunah Tape Library of Monsey: (845)426-6812" Or go to Rabbi Kaplan's family, they run the Beis Yaakov of Boro Park, where he was the principle. Now - what do you propose deleting? --Daniel575 | (talk) 14:26, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Added a 'see also'. --Daniel575 | (talk) 14:27, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

"The next Friday, 23 August, Arabs, inflamed by rumors that two Arabs had been killed by Jews, started an attack on Jews in the Old City." Which Old City? Jerusalem or Hebron? Needs to be clarified. The current link 'Old City' redirects to 'Jerusalem's Old City walls'. If we are talking about the Old City of Hebron, this is incorrect. --Daniel575 | (talk) 14:41, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

I want to delete the section about the riots elsewhere (it's not the place, it should only be in the 1929 riots article), not the quote. About the old city, it's jerusalem, maybe should also be deleted. Amoruso 14:44, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Survivor Accounts Part Deux

I think Kaplan account, particularly the characterization that the "Zionists are to blame" is irrelevant to the 1929 Hebron Massacre itself. This is not an article about Zionism. Its an article about a historical event. --Meshulam 19:09, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

It is about the reasons for what happened. The background. Everything that happened. Delete this and we delete the whole article. And, indeed the Zionists are to blame for it, as he explains. Also, note that this is not just 'some idiot' or so, but the founder and long-time director of the largest BY of Boro Park. --Daniel575 | (talk) 21:44, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

The issue isn't his credibility. The issue is the relevance of his statement that the Zionists are at fault. That kind of theological argument has nothing to do with the event itself. Your statement "delete this and we delete the while article" is rather strange. The event exists in isolation, though there might have been historical factors that contributed to its occurrence. The opinions of one person regarding the theological implications of the event after the fact don't have anything to do with the event itself. I'm seeking a consensus. Right now there are only the two of us. Perhaps someone else will chime in and break the tie. --Meshulam 22:21, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

People, let's keep the original version. Daniel has been polite and very productive on the article - Meshulam , he's the one who pushed the article to be created and he wants to show all the arab atrocities and so on - he's not against the zionists. He just wanted to bring this account. He himself is the one who added the disagreement sentence which shows good faith from him. This section will be expanded So think about it as 1 account in what will become 10 or more - this person too is entitled to his opinion. Let's not fight over this. One person saying it doesn't make it true Meshulam and it says that others disagree with him. It's only cited as an account, not as something with great importance, and it's NPOV . Amoruso 00:30, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

The issue was relevance, not POV. I care little about Daniel's motives. It is the relevance of certain statements that I question. Regardless, a consensus has been met (in the absence of any other opinions). I'm willing to go along with it. --Meshulam 03:58, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

I am against the Zionists, Amoruso. But on religious grounds only. I am an Israeli and a Jew, and I am a realist. On religious grounds I am strongly anti-Zionist. I am convinced that Rav Kaplan's account of the background of what happened is the most correct one. And correct- there should be at least 10 accounts. Many people did survive and I am sure that there are many survivor accounts. We should have more of them. Having few is not a reason to exclude one of them. If you don't like what this survivor says, bring stories of other survivors, instead of censoring this one. --Daniel575 | (talk) 07:38, 27 September 2006 (UTC)