![]() ![]() Hundreds of villages- five hundred and thirty, together with twelve major urban sites, according to Pappe- would vanish and "urban life would all but evaporate- war and exodus reducing Jaffa's population from 70,000-80,000 Palestinians to a remnant of 3,000-4,000" (Ibid.). In less than six months, between the end of 1947 and mid 1948 "the Palestinian Arab community would cease to exist as a social and political entity" (Kimmerling and Migdal 2003: 135). Others were slaughtered in cold blood, usually execution style, after their villages were occupied and cleansed or after their houses were dynamited while they were asleep in the implementation of the fourth version of the ethnic cleansing master plan, the infamous Plan D. 2003), ethically cleaned almost 800,000 Palestinian Arabs (approximately 80% of the population living in the area controlled by Israel in the 1948 war, or half of the population of historic Palestine according to Pappe) from their homeland, in addition to thousands of Palestinians who were displaced within their homeland by the Zionists. Contrary to the myth of being the proverbial David of the 1948 events, Zionist forces with their overwhelming power (Morris 1987 1988 Shlaim. ![]() US $27.50.Ī SOLE THOUGHT WAS STIRRING THE coarse mind of Israel's founders for the demographic woes facing the establishment of a Jewish state in a terrain predominantly inhabited by the Arabs a solution compounded by mass expulsion and ethnic cleansing (Massalha 1991 1997). ![]()
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