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Arab orders to move dependents, and leaders' decisions, 1948
One explanation of the 1948 flight: orders and decisions of Palestinian and other Arab leaders. The older claim of a general order to leave is rejected by Morris, Shlaim and Walid Khalidi.
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Flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948
According to Avi Shlaim
Scholarship & press
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The older Israeli account: Arab leaders ordered Palestinians to leave. Shlaim says Morris's 1988 research found no such calls. Walid Khalidi calls the claim a lie.
- Flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948 According to Efraim Karsh Scholarship & press 2
- Flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948 According to Benny Morris Scholarship & press 3
- Flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948 According to Efraim Karsh Scholarship & press 2
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Israel's "new history" and the Palestinians (openDemocracy, via History News Network), History News Network.
Scholarship & press
The official Israeli version maintains that the Palestinians left the country on orders from their leaders and in the expectation of a triumphal return
He found no evidence of Arab calls on the Palestinians to leave their homes
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Efraim Karsh takes Israel's "new historians" to task (History News Network), History News Network.
Scholarship & press
the collapse and dispersion of Palestinian society was largely the responsibility of Palestinian and other Arab leaders, not of the Zionists.
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Survival of the Fittest? An interview with Benny Morris, by Ari Shavit (Haaretz, 9 January 2004), Haaretz, reprinted by Logos Journal, 9 Jan 2004.
Scholarship & press
it turns out that there was a series of orders issued by the Arab Higher Committee and by the Palestinian intermediate levels to remove children, women and the elderly from the villages.
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