Summary
Ezra Danin’s second-in-command in the Hagana’s Arab section, who in Pappe’s account took a great personal interest in the post-occupation procedures of selection, interrogation and sometimes execution during the ethnic cleansing.
Details
- Born in Palestine, Palmon had served as a recruit in a British commando unit that participated in the occupation of Syria and Lebanon in 1941, which brought French Vichy rule there to an end (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, PDF p.80-81).
- With Danin he led the Consultancy discussion on 10 December 1947 calling for a far more aggressive policy against the Palestinians despite the absence of Palestinian offensive initiatives (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, PDF p.81).
- The officers under Danin and Palmon were known to and feared by many Palestinians; the oral history of the Nakba is full of references to these men and the atrocities they committed (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, PDF p.81).
- With Yigal Allon at the Long Seminar he set out the need for a more aggressive policy in areas that had been ‘quiet for too long’ (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, PDF p.91).
- On 19 February 1948 he reported to the Consultancy that the Palestinians still showed no inclination to fight (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, PDF p.106).