Netanyahu ordered 20 years extended the secrecy of the Israeli state archives
Israel is unable to face his past. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided this week to expand from 50 to 70 years time when the State files remain classified. Israel is aware that it has much to hide.
Haaretz reported this week (only in Hebrew edition) that the first documents to be made public will not see light until 2018 (1948 +70). Many of the documents in the archives are relevant to the history of the first twenty years of existence of the Jewish state, then deal with the mass expulsion of the Palestinian people, the massacres of Deir Yassin and Tantura, the Suez crisis of 1956, the Israeli nuclear project, etc. The disclosure of these documents shed light on some facts that could "topple myths and embarrass a number of entities and individuals," said the Israeli newspaper. I suppose that President Shimon Peres is one of those "numerous individuals" ...
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