Person

Benny Morris

Israeli historian of the 1948 war and of the flight of Arab residents.

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According to Benny Morris

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Flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948 According to Benny Morris Scholarship & press 1
Morris, in a 2004 interview, on the 1948 expulsions; he adds that he finds no justification for massacres or rape.
Deir Yassin, April 1948 According to Benny Morris Scholarship & press 1

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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
Without the uprooting of the Palestinians, a Jewish state would not have arisen here.
The worst cases were Saliha (70-80 killed), Deir Yassin (100-110), Lod (250), Dawayima (hundreds) and perhaps Abu Shusha (70).
Plan Dalet: Master Plan for the Conquest of Palestine (Journal of Palestine Studies 18:1, with a 1988 introduction), Institute for Palestine Studies, Journal of Palestine Studies, 1988. Scholarship & press Archived copy
Morris, for example, unequivocally and commendably confirms the death of the (albeit long-deceased) Arab evacuation orders.

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