Lehi acted as an independent group and was disbanded in 1948. If it is all true then it was a horrific war crime and cannot be justified. Taking that village was justified because it was on the high ground and Jews were being sniped at, but it is not an excuse to murder the innocent.
Yep, but somehow what happened in Deir Yassin strangely coincides with Plan Dalet that was formally adopted in March of that year at a meeting in Tel Aviv of the entire Zionist leadership headed by Ben-Gurion…
We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, ‘What is to be done with the Palestinian population?’ Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said ‘Drive them out!'” Rabin added, “I agreed that it was essential to drive the inhabitants out.
Yitzhak Rabin recalls in his memoirs a conversation with Ben-Gurion that took place in 1948…