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TWO MODERN ISRAELI PROPHETS
AND THEIR UNHEEDED WARNINGS
By Shalom Goldman of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia
In October of 1953, a charismatic young Israeli army officer named Ariel Scheinerman was assigned a delicate task. Moshe Dayan, the army's head of operations, had received orders from the government's political leadership to organize a reprisal raid against Jordan. Infiltrators from the West Bank had killed three Israelis during a nighttime raid in the village of Yehud.
The directive to General Dayan, conveyed by Dayan to Scheinerman, was to strike at the Jordanian village of Kibiyeh, from which the infiltrators were thought to have come. The general's orders to his young officer were to punish the village by destroying some buildings and fighting any armed combatants he and his soldiers might encounter. Citizens, especially women and children, were not to be harmed.
Scheinerman had his own ideas as to how the military orders should be carried out. He commanded his unit to take over Kibiyeh by night and mine all of its houses with explosives. The fuses were set and when the charges went off 69 Jordanian civilians, most of them women and children, were killed. The Israeli government, faced with the diplomatic repercussions of the incident, denied responsibility for the bombings and blamed them on "provocateurs." Within the army and government, many officers and officials were dismayed by Scheinerman's initiative, but none of their objections interfered with his advancement in the ranks. Under his command, a further series of reprisal raids was undertaken. Their net result was a cycle of raid reprisals and counter-raids that escalated until they culminated in the outbreak of the 1956 Arab-Israeli War. Scheinerman was soon to change his name to Sharon, and the results of his military-political thinking are still with us today.
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Excerpt:
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TWO MODERN ISRAELI PROPHETS
AND THEIR UNHEEDED WARNINGS
By Shalom Goldman of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia
In October of 1953, a charismatic young Israeli army officer named Ariel Scheinerman was assigned a delicate task. Moshe Dayan, the army's head of operations, had received orders from the government's political leadership to organize a reprisal raid against Jordan. Infiltrators from the West Bank had killed three Israelis during a nighttime raid in the village of Yehud.
The directive to General Dayan, conveyed by Dayan to Scheinerman, was to strike at the Jordanian village of Kibiyeh, from which the infiltrators were thought to have come. The general's orders to his young officer were to punish the village by destroying some buildings and fighting any armed combatants he and his soldiers might encounter. Citizens, especially women and children, were not to be harmed.
Scheinerman had his own ideas as to how the military orders should be carried out. He commanded his unit to take over Kibiyeh by night and mine all of its houses with explosives. The fuses were set and when the charges went off 69 Jordanian civilians, most of them women and children, were killed. The Israeli government, faced with the diplomatic repercussions of the incident, denied responsibility for the bombings and blamed them on "provocateurs." Within the army and government, many officers and officials were dismayed by Scheinerman's initiative, but none of their objections interfered with his advancement in the ranks. Under his command, a further series of reprisal raids was undertaken. Their net result was a cycle of raid reprisals and counter-raids that escalated until they culminated in the outbreak of the 1956 Arab-Israeli War. Scheinerman was soon to change his name to Sharon, and the results of his military-political thinking are still with us today.
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