(NOTE: keep in mind that the following text was included in the lyrics’ booklet of a CD that was released in Israel only, meaning that the text is aimed at people living in Israel)

On April 9, 1948, the Arab village of Deir Yassin was attacked without provocation by Jewish soldiers of the underground Lehi (“Israel’s Freedom fighters”, also known as the “Stern Gang”) and Etzel (“National Military Organization”, also known as the “Irgun”) forces, both belonging to the Revisionist party (which eventually became part of the Likud party). About 150 people - men, women and children - were murdered in this attack; part of a plan called “Plan Dalet”. The ‘cleansing’ of Deir Yassin was only one of dozens and hundreds similar cases that took place between 1947 - 1949. Hundreds of villages were destroyed with blowing-up houses, murder and expulsion being part of what was called “Conquering the land”.
The years previous to the rise of the state of Israel were the breeding ground for the militarism which quickly became both ideology and policy to all Israeli governments, from the first one to the current. The Deir Yassin case represents the very essence of the “by all means necessary” notion, which simultaneously relies on and hides behind myths - myths that legitimize the use of political & physical violence. And it is this violence that has always been seen as the primarily option, before cooperation and mutual understanding.
These myths turn the lives of both Jews and Palestinians into mere pawns in a game whose end we already know, and in which you are the key actors.

“We must nurture a generation with no particular interests or habits... made of steel wire. Flexible - yet steel nevertheless. A metal from which we can create everything the national machine may require. A wheel is missing? - I am a wheel. Nails, screws, cogs are missing? Take me... I have no face, I have no Psychology, no feelings, not even a name: I am the pure ideal of service...” Yosef Trumpeldor (early Zionist leader, 1880 - 1920, after whom Jabotinsky named "Betar" [Brit Yosef Trumpeldor])

Why have we named our band Dir Yassin: Deir Yassin is part of the repressed memory of Israeli society and we see Hardcore music, among other things, as a way of coping with facts which are hard to deal with or even to mention.
We want to see this band as part of the small but constantly-growing tendency among Israeli people to question the Zionist ethos that have shaped (and are still shaping) Israeli society.
It is very likely that a large part of those who have bothered to read this page would feel angered or uneasy with our stance, and we hope they will be brave and open-minded enough to try and find out what lies underneath the perpetual victim-complex of the Jewish Israeli population and how much of it really fits actual reality.
Dir Yassin