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Israeli military orders and pressure, 1948
One explanation of the 1948 flight: orders to expel villagers and political and psychological pressure.
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- Flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948 According to Benny Morris Scholarship & press 1
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Flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948
According to Benny Morris
Scholarship & press
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Morris counts 24 massacres, "about a dozen" cases of rape, and about 800 killed in massacres and executions, from IDF archives; he also says that in his view the expulsions were not war crimes.
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Flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948
According to Walid Khalidi
Scholarship & press
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Walid Khalidi reads the military operations of Plan D (April 1948) as one expulsion plan; Morris, in his words, sees no link between "transfer" talk and Plan Dalet.
- Flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948 According to Benny Morris Scholarship & press 1
- Flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948 According to Avi Shlaim Scholarship & press 3
Proof 3 sources
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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
on October 31, 1948, the commander of the Northern Front, Moshe Carmel, issued an order in writing to his units to expedite the removal of the Arab population.
the expulsion order for the city of Lod, which was signed by Yitzhak Rabin
how many acts of Israeli massacre were perpetrated in 1948? Twenty-four.
if we take all the massacres and all the executions of 1948, we come to about 800 who were killed.
In the months of April-May 1948, units of the Haganah [the pre-state defense force that was the precursor of the IDF] were given operational orders that stated explicitly that they were to uproot the villagers, expel them and destroy the villages themselves.
There is no explicit order of his in writing, there is no orderly comprehensive policy
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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
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Zionism's responsibility for the Palestinian exodus and diaspora is an integral part of the genesis of the State of Israel.
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Israel's "new history" and the Palestinians (openDemocracy, via History News Network), History News Network.
Scholarship & press
there were many different reasons for the Palestinian exodus but the single most important reason was Israeli political, military, and psychological pressure.
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