Peter L.Hahn, Caught in the Middle-East - US policy towards the arab-israeli conflict 1945-1961, p. 161, University of North Carolina Press, 2004 consultable sur google.books
Neil Kaplan, Futile Diplomacy, p. 222, accessible via googlebooks.
Avi Plascov, The Palestinian Refugees in Jordan 1948-1957, 1981, p. 100 accessible via googlebooks.
(en) Noam Chomsky, The Fateful Triangle : the United States, Israël and the Palestinians, 1988, p. 383-385. accessible via googlebooks ou (fr) Noam Chomsky, Israël, Palestine, États-Unis, le triangle fatidique, 2006, p. 449-450.
On peut trouver une version légèrement différente [1] :
Ben Gurion’s version of operation Kibya, broadcasted on Israeli Radio on 19 October 1953, as recorded by Davar, 20 October 1953.
«… The [Jewish] border settlers in Israel, mostly refugees, people from Arab countries and survivors from the Nazi concentration camps, have, for years, been the target of… murderous attacks and had shown a great restraint. Rightfully, they have demanded that their government protect their lives and the Israeli government gave them weapons and trained them to protect themselves.But the armed forces from Transjordan did not stop their criminal acts, until [the people in] some of the border settlements lost their patience and after the murder of a mother and her two children in Yahud, they attacked, last week, the village of Kibya across the border, that was one of the main centers of the murderers’ gangs. Every one of us regrets and suffers when blood is shed anywhere and nobody regrets more than the Israeli government the fact that innocent people were killed in the retaliation act in Kibya. But all the responsibility rests with the government of Transjordan that for many years tolerated and thus encouraged attacks of murder and robbery by armed powers in its country against the citizens of Israel.The government of Israel strongly rejects the ridiculous and fantastic version, as if 600 soldiers participated [in the action] against Kibya. We had conducted a thorough check and found out that not even the smallest army unit was missing from its base on the night of the attack on Kibya »
isreview.org
Hadas Thier, Ariel Sharon: War Criminal, International Socialist Review Issue 17, April-May 2001 rapporte ces éléments en citant notamment Noam Chomsky, The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians, South End Press, 1999 et Ariel Sharon, Warrior: The Autobiography of Ariel Sharon, Simon & Schuster Inc., 1989).
Il est difficile de savoir exactement qui est le véritable instigateur de la fondation de l’unité 101. Pierre Razoux (Tsahal, 2006, p. 126) l’attribue à Mordekhaï Makleff à la suite d'une recommandation de Moshe Dayan. Le Ministère des Affaires Étrangères israélien affirme qu’elle fut "fondée et commandée" par Ariel Sharon (Biographie d’Ariel Sharon sur le site du Ministère des Affaires Étrangères d’Israël). Benny Morris (Victimes, 2003, p. 305) ne se prononce pas mais fait référence à un rapport d’Ariel Sharon traitant de l’incompétence des hommes chargés de ces opérations.
