All Quiet on the Palestine-Israel Front

... security forces in East Jerusalem. Although the global media coverage of the tensions and violence in Jerusalem was sufficiently detailed, not many have properly identified the location of the crime. Before the 1948-1949 Arab-Israeli conflict, what is now Har Nof had been the Arab village Deir Yassin, whose residents used to be on good terms with their Jewish neighbors, and generally did not get involved in skirmishes between Jewish and Arab combatants [1] . However, the heights above the village were ...