In May, 1944, at a meeting of the Jewish Agency Executive, Ben-Gurion said, “Zionism is a transfer of the Jews. Regarding the transfer of the Arabs this is much easier than any other transfer. There are Arab states in the vicinity… and it is clear that if the Arabs are removed (to these states) this will improve their condition and not the contrary.”.
In 1948, Aharon Cohen, head of the Israeli Arab Dept. wrote to Political Committee of the United Workers’ Party (Mapam), “There is reason to believe that what is being done… is being done out of certain political objectives and not only out of military necessities, as they claim sometimes. In fact, the ‘transfer’ of the Arabs from the boundaries of the Jewish State is being implemented… the evacuation/clearing out of Arab villages is not always done out of military necessity. The complete destruction of villages is not always done only because there are no sufficient forces to maintain a garrison (there).”. |
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