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Why did the flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948 happen?
Shows causes on the record, then each account's causes side by side. Not a single settled cause.
A connection is not evidence of wrongdoing.
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Why did the flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948 happen?
Shows causes on the record, then each account’s causes side by side. Not a single settled cause.
According to Avi Shlaim. The flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948, caused by Arab orders to move dependents, and leaders’ decisions, 1948.
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.
The flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948, caused by Israeli military orders and pressure, 1948.
According to Benny Morris. The flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948, caused by Arab orders to move dependents, and leaders’ decisions, 1948.
The flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948, caused by Israeli military orders and pressure, 1948.
The flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948, caused by Israeli military orders and pressure, 1948.
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.
The flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948, caused by Israeli military orders and pressure, 1948.
The flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948, caused by “Transfer” in Zionist political thought.
Morris, in a 2004 interview: no written order from Ben-Gurion himself, but “an atmosphere of [population] transfer”.
According to Nur Masalha. The flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948, caused by “Transfer” in Zionist political thought.
According to Walid Khalidi. The flight and expulsion of Palestinians, 1948, caused by Israeli military orders and pressure, 1948.
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.
Named in 3 of the 5 accounts recorded here: Arab orders to move dependents, and leaders’ decisions, 1948.
Shows causes on the record, then each account’s causes side by side. Not a single settled cause.
A connection is not evidence of wrongdoing.
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