Talk:Operation Hametz

Need better sources
The book by Bell is a good read, but it isn't a serious history book as it relies on interviews and hardly at all on documents. Bell was enamoured by the Irgun in particular and was happy to present their claims as factual. This article needs to be rewritten using better sources. Zerotalk 07:46, 10 October 2020 (UTC)


 * I would say the same thing about the "testimony" of Yoseph Nachmias about the number of those killed by snipers. Not only is he highly biased, but it would be difficult for him to actually know the number. And a nice round number it is, too. Mcdruid (talk) 03:13, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
 * And now that I think about it, 1000 in five months is more than 6 per day: if it were anywhere near that, there would be other reports. Mcdruid (talk) 03:15, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
 * The source says "killed or wounded", not "killed", which makes it slightly more plausible but not much. Also he was an Irgun company commander, not a regular. Things like this should come from historians, not partisans with a conflict of interest. I'm deleting it. Zerotalk 05:21, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I've gone through five or six sources and none of them talk about this level of violence. Until they started shooting mortars at each other. Also all of the sources indicated that the violence was mutual, at worst. Mcdruid (talk) 06:36, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

An excellent source for this article is the paper by Itamar Radai here. Radai also has a book with much the same information. It is way more detailed, balanced and scholarly than most of the sources currently used. Zerotalk 06:20, 17 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I've tried to access that article before, but I don't have the right institutional creds. Mcdruid (talk) 06:36, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
 * If you send me mail, I'll send you a copy. 07:53, 17 November 2023 (UTC)