I make no comment here on the rights and wrongs of the Israeli-Arab conflict, or the appalling historical episode of which Mrs Allaf writes; I merely refer you to the source whose judgement Mrs Allaf proffers. "Israel Shamir" is the nom de plume of a writer whose real name is Jöran Jermas. So far from being, as he claims, a leading Israeli intellectual and translator, Shamir is of Russian origin, and has lived in Sweden for the past 20 years. His writings, which are widely circulated on the Internet, are unambiguously antisemitic.

http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2005/08/chatham_house_o.html

9 Jul 2007 ... "Shamir", a regular on Counterpunch, is so openly pro-Nazi that even European anti-Israel activist groups repudiate him as an embarrassment ...

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/3664

ISM... a Swedish antisemite (See: "Israeli writer is Swedish anti-Semite") who also passes himself off as a "Jew" (all the better to make propaganda).  Known widely as the "toxic dwarf" (extreme antisemite plus low intellect), Israel Shamir (also known as Joran Jermas) is such an awful antisemite that even some pro-Palestinian Arab/anti-Zionist activists have rejected him.  Read "Sue has seen the light" for more details.  According to the now infamous Marxist anti-Zionist Dr. Sue Blackwell, Shamir is a Nazi

http://universityracism.multiservers.com/Text/AntisemSWE.htm

Shofar FTP Archives: Nigel Parry who runs 'The Electronic Intifada exposes Israel Shamir (wha was posing as a "jew") ...a neo-Nazi

http://www2.ca.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/s/seredin.alex/2007/seredin.200705