As salamu alaikum. My full name is Luay Walid Mahmoud Mohammed Ismail Jaber. (Born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago, IL) You may have noticed that my name is rather long. Well I take pride in being able to say I not only know my grandfather's name, but I also know my grandfather's grandfather's name.

I am from Deir Yasin and I have been there. I spent one day there and it was the best day of my life. It was the most beautiful village I have ever been to and it had the freshest air that I ever had the pleasure of breathing. I sit with the people who were born and raised there every chance I get. I always have them tell me stories about the old country to get firsthand accounts on not only the Deir Yasin Battle, but also other things that happened before that to get a feel for what life was like for them back then.

You may have noticed I refered to it as the Deir Yasin battle instead of the Deir Yasin Massacre. Many of us from Deir Yasin feel that is is an insult to all the brave martyrs who fought hard and died to call it a massacre. Deir Yasin stood strong for two days before it was over. They were vulnerable but not helpless. Two days may not seem like a lot to you, but it was for them considering their situation.

Above all, all of the men from Deir Yasin that were of fighting age were far from the village fighting battles elsewhere. Spies for the Jewish gangs found this out and they realized the village was vulnerable for attack. So they organized three gangs to attack Deir Yasin (women, children, and a few old men). They fought hard and lost. They had no support from any nearby villages.

One of the gangs that invaded Deir Yasin was called the Irgun. The Irgun's weapons were supplied by Benjamin Emanuel. Benjamin Emanuel just so happens to be Rahm Emanuel's father. Rahm Emanuel is the former Chief of Staff for President Obama and he is currently the mayor of Chicago.

I am glad we have websites like this so we can be heard and counted. I promise I will never forget Deir Yasin or Palestine as a whole until I die. I will never accept any compensation of any kind for any part of Palestine. I will never accept a so-called two state solution, that will never work. The only real solution is to bring things back to how they were before the British occupied Palestine. There were Palestinians and Jews living together peacefully before Europe got involved.

Stay Strong, Salam

I am from Dayr Yasin but I have never been there. I am from the Sammur family and we live in Chicago, IL, USA. There is a big group here in Chicago from Dayr Yasin. Not sure of the exact number but it could be around 300. The families here in Chicago are from Jaber, Eid, Joudeh, and Sammur. My grandfather Mahfouz Sammur was in Dayr Yasin during the massacre. He has written a book about the village, the massacre, and listed the names of every single person from the village as of 1948.

If you had a family member or a friend who died at the
Dayr Yasin massacre would you ever accept the state
of Israel That not withstanding there will never be
peace in the middle east until Israel allows Palestinians
to return to the land that the were forced to leave

THANKS FOR ALL YOUR EFFORT

We, members of Liverpool friends of Palestine will be commemorating Dayr Yasin on April the 12th with a vigil in the city centre. We continue to support the plight of the Palestinians in the face of continued Israeli aggression.
"Hope lives when people remember" (Simon Wiesenthal)
Remember Dayr Yasin, remember Jenin!

Dear Palestinian Friends,
I do wish to remember the victims of Deir Yasin.
As a Christian Minister, I am deeply repentant for American Christian support of the Zionist murder and land expropriation of the people of Deri Yasin.
All men and women are my brothers and sisters.
The Zionists were acting like the Nazis, who were the arch-warcriminals of the world.
The Palestinian people are on my prayer list, and I pray that they will have a homeland of their own where they can live in peace without fear from the Zionist state of Israel.

Peace/Salaam,

Elder Gary Cummings
USA

I feel so sad for what happened to Dayr Yasin. Inshallah the land will be given back to our people on day. The land that was once ours taken so quickly without permission or a fair fight.