Conspiracy of Silence: Israeli Government Still Covering Up Historic Atrocities
In 1948, just prior to the foundation of Israel, six Polish Christians were executed without trial in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem by the fledgling country's Jewish army, the Haganah. An investigative analysis on the killings - dubbed the Riftin Report - was compiled for future Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, but has never been made public until now.
Official refusal to disclose the document comes despite fervid recommendations by chief Israeli state archivist Dr. Yaacov Lozowick, and the campaigning of the investigative Akevot Institute.
According to Israeli official secrecy laws, the report should've been made accessible to the public in 1998 — however, state archivists argued it should remain classified. Dr. Lozowick sought to reverse this decision in 2014, but his recommendation was opposed by Ilana Alon, Director of the Israeli Defense Force and Defense Establishment Archives.
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Other incidents scrutizined by Riftin include the execution of a number of Arabs, including a taxi driver kidnapped by a Palmach unit along with his vehicle. He was "put to death", and the car later used by the mistaravim — a top secret undercover unit who disguised themselves as Palestinians to carry out various controversial operations.
Again, accounts of the driver's fate differ — one suggests there was no initial intention to kill him, merely to steal the car and leave him by the side of the road. However, when the individual began boasting of his active role in local "gangs", Palmach operatives attempted to kidnap him in order to interrogate him further, but were "forced to liquidate" when he "resisted forcefully".
Another version of the story states instead attempts to subdue the driver with morphine before taking the car failed, so he was bundled into the vehicle's trunk — but he started pounding loudly from his makeshift cell, meaning agents were "forced" to shoot him thrice.
Whatever the reality, the nameless taxi driver seems positively fortunate when compared to another anonymous Arab slain by Haganah agents at Kibbutz Nir Am in the Negev, a semidesert region of southern Israel. He was subjected to interrogation by "unauthorized persons" and "cruel torture" — "his genital organ was clasped with pliers…his head was smashed against a wall…the Arab lay in a pit, was shot and covered over".