The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited

The Birth Of The Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited

The birth of the Palestinian refugee problem revisited

The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisisted

978-0-521-00967-6

9780521009676

978-0521009676

25 July 2013

2016-02-20

22 May 2013

Cambridge University Press

[[Cambridge University Press]]

Morris

Benny

2004

Benny Morris

[[Benny Morris]]

11, 48, 49,

xxii, 248, 533

115–

253

253–254

[http://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&l&pg=PR22 xxii], no. 167

49–

xxi

xxii

59

48

602

[http://books.google.ca/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&l&pg=PR20 xx]

416

65

342

436

[https://books.google.com/?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA258 258]

513

"p. 11 "while the Zionist movement, after much agonising, accepted the principle of partition and the proposals as a basis for negotiation"; p. 49 "In the end, after bitter debate, the Congress equivocally approved –by a vote of 299 to 160 – the Peel recommendations as a basis for further negotiation."

"(p. 114) And rifts among the Jaffa Arabs from the beginning subverted all efforts at peacemaking. In February, Ben-Gurion wrote to Shertok that Heikal, through a British intermediary,was trying to secure an agreement with Tel Aviv but that the new irregulars’ commander, ‘Abdul Wahab ‘Ali Shihaini, had blocked him. .... According to Ben-Gurion, Shihaini had answered: ‘I do not mind [the] destruction [of] Jaffa if we secure [the] destruction [of] Tel Aviv. As in Haifa, the irregulars intimidated the local population, echoing the experience of 1936–1939. ‘. . . The inhabitants were more afraid of their defenders-saviours than of the Jews their enemies’, wrote Nimr al Khatib. (p. 115) But Arab notables, through British intermediaries, continued to press for a wider citrus agreement. ... In the end, a formal agreement was never concluded. But neither was a complete blockade imposed on Jaffa, and the bilateral orange-picking and -exporting continued largely unhampered."

"However, within weeks, the Peel recommendations were dead in the water. The Arabs, unappeased, renewed their revolt, and the British Government, taking fright, secretly voted against partition on 8 December 1937 and then appointed yet another (‘technical’) committee, ostensibly to look into the praxis of implementing the Peel proposals but in reality to bury them. The Woodhead Committee, set up in March 1938, presented its findings in November"

About 400 villages and towns were depopulated in the course of the war and its immediate aftermath. By mid-1949, the majority of these sites were either completely or partly in ruins and uninhabitable.

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