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56 See Lehn, Walter, The Jewish National Fund, 1988.
57 Reudy, John, “Dynamics of Land Alienation” in The Transformation of Palestine ed. Abu Lughod, Ibrahim, p. 134.
58 Toward the De-Arabization of Palestine/Israel 1945–1977. Nijim, Basheer K. (ed.). Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing
Company, 1984.
59 “Once [the Wall is completed], the indigenous Palestinian population will be restricted to ghettos constituting less than 12%
of historic Palestine while Israeli settlers will be able to freely travel throughout the occupied Palestinian territory.” Israel’s Wall,
Ramallah: Department of Negotiations Affairs, Palestine Liberation Organization, 9 July 2005, p. 6.
60 Morris, Benny, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, p. 243.
61 “Investigation Report,” Simon and Vermeersch, UNA DAG-13/3.3.1–18, cited in Morris, Benny, Israel’s Border Wars, 1949–56,
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, p. 152.
62 Cohen, Hillel, HaNifkadim HaNokhahim, HaPlitim HaFalestinim BeIsrael me’az 1948 [The Present Absentees: Palestinian Refugees
in Israel Since 1948] [Hebrew]. Jerusalem: Institute for Arab-Israeli Studies, 2000, p. 58. Also see Masalha, Nur, A Land without
a People: Israel, Transfer and the Palestinians, London: Faber & Faber, 1997, p. 12. The Little Triangle included the villages of
Umm al-Fahm, at-Tire, at-Taybia, Kafr Qasem and Baqa al-Gharbiya bordering Jenin, Tulkarem, and Qalqiliya. See Abu-Sitta,
Salman, Atlas of Palestine, 1948, London: Palestine Land Society, 2004, p. 66.
63 Morris, Benny, 1948 and After: Israel and the Palestinians. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990, pp. 257–69.
64 Israeli Foreign Ministry reports indicate that some 17,000 Bedouin were expelled from the Naqab (Negev) between 1949 and
1953. “Investigation Report,” Simon and Vermeersch, UNA DAG-13/3.3.1–18, cited in Morris, Benny, Israel’s Border Wars, p.
170.
65 The original version was in French and stated: “d’obtenir d’eux un travail extrêmement utile à l’èconomie de l’Etat.” International
Red Cross report, 6 February 1949 (No. G59/I/GC), cited in Salman Abu Sitta in response to Eitan Bronstein’s question about
the existence of labour camps in Palestine during and after the Nakba, 19 May, 2002. Available on Zochrot Website: http://www.
zochrot.org/
66 Salman Abu Sitta in response to Eitan Bronstein’s question about the existence of labour camps in Palestine during and after the
Nakba, 19 May, 2002. Available on Zochrot Website: http://www.zochrot.org/
67 Reviewing official Israeli government documents, Morris estimates that 30–90,000 Palestinian refugees attempted to return to
their homes and villages between the middle of 1948 and 1953. Most were expelled. Morris, Benny, Israel’s Border Wars, p. 152,
p. 39.
68 State Archives, Foreign Ministry, Arab Refugees 2444/19, cited in Segev, Tom, 1949: The First Israelis. New York: The Free Press,
1986, p. 19.
69 Morris, Benny, Israel’s Border Wars, p. 147.
70 Morris, Benny, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, p. 242.
71 These included Qibya, Nahalin, Bethlehem, Beit Jala, Sharafat, Qalqilya, Khan Younis, and Rafah. For descriptions of these events,
see Masalha, supra, note 62; Khalidi, Walid, “Plan Dalet: Master Plan for the Conquest of Palestine,” 28 Journal of Palestine Studies
1 (Autumn 1988); and Tubi, Tawfiq, Kufr Qassem, the Massacre and the Lesson [Arabic]. Haifa: Emile Touma Institute for Social
and Political Studies, 2001.
72 For a detailed description, see Morris, Benny, Israel’s Border Wars, pp. 257–69.
73 For a detailed description, see Morris, Benny, Israel’s Border Wars, p. 433.
74 These included the villages of Iqrit, Bir’am, al-Faluja, Iraq al-Manshiya, Farraddiya, Inan, Saffurriya, al-Khisa, Qeitiya, Khirbet
Muntar, Ghabsiyya and al-Hamma. The terms were used by Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion, during a Cabinet
meeting on 26 September 1948. Morris, Benny, 1948 and After: Israel and the Palestinians, p. 218.
75 Ma’ariv, 5 August 1965; Ha’aretz, 6 September 1966. See also the reply of the Prime Minister, Levi Eshkol, to a parliamentary
question in The Knesset Debates, 6 February 1967, p. 1148. Jiryis, Sabri, “The Legal Structure for the Expropriation and Absorption
of Arab Lands in Israel,” Journal of Palestine Studies 4 (Summer 1973), p. 85; Jiryis, Sabri, The Arabs in Israel, London: Monthly
Review Press, 1976. Also see Segev, Tom, “Where Are All the Villages? Where are They?” Ha’aretz, 6 September 2002. Translated
and reprinted in Between the Lines, October 2002.
76 For a more detailed discussion, see Benvenisti, Meron, Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land, Berkeley: The
University of California Press, 2000.
77 For a detailed description, see Jiryis, Sabri, The Arabs in Israel, London: Monthly Review Press, 1976.
78 Jiryis, Sabri, The Arabs in Israel, p. 16.
79 Jiryis, Sabri, The Arabs in Israel, p. 10.
80 For a legal analysis of the status of Palestinians under the law of nationality as applied upon state succession, see Boling, Gail J.,
The 1948 Palestinian Refugees and the Individual Right of Return, An International Law Analysis. Bethlehem: BADIL Resource
Center, 2001. Also see Lawand, Kathleen, “The Right to Return of Palestinians in International Law,” 8 International Journal of
Refugee Law 532 (1996).
81 For a detailed study of these laws, see, e.g., Boling, Gail J., “Absentees’ Property Laws to Israel’s Confiscation of Palestinian Property:
A Violation of UN General Assembly Resolution 194 and International Law,” 11 Palestine Yearbook of International Law 73
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