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Israel/Palestine

Nitram

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6. Um, shira, did you actually read the post you commented on earlier? I'll copy for you.

Reply to shira (Reply #5)

Wed Oct 12, 2016, 12:14 PM

Oct 2016

"...killing of armed and unarmed men, destruction of houses and sometimes expulsion of inhabitants. The Zionist groups of Irgun and Lehi reverted to their 1937–1939 strategy of indiscriminate attacks by placing bombs and throwing grenades into crowded places such as bus stops, shopping centers and markets."

Can you suggest another motive? Were those injured or killed by bombs and grenades in shopping centers guilty of a crime?

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Mondoweiss: ‘Ethnic cleansing’ becomes ‘No ethnic cleansing’ in Israeli history by Benny Morris [View all] Little Tich Oct 2016 OP

Israel Conducted No Ethnic Cleansing in 1948 Little Tich Oct 2016 #1

December 1947 – March 1948 Nitram Oct 2016 #2

Compared to Americans & Europeans in WW2, that was quite tame for those times. shira Oct 2016 #3

If the goal was to kill, physically remove or scare Palestinians away from Israel, that is indeed... Nitram Oct 2016 #4

How do you know the goal was to remove or scare all Pal'ns from Israel? shira Oct 2016 #5

Um, shira, did you actually read the post you commented on earlier? I'll copy for you. Nitram Oct 2016 #6

Yes. What do you make of Benny Morris' recent article? n/t shira Oct 2016 #7