gelatik
16.05.02, 22:55
Over a period of two years, from 1947-1949, the Zionists demolished 419 Arab
villages and depopulated the Palestinian Arabs in those towns. When the state
of Israel was established in 1948 it became apparant that this Zionist policy
was a systematic state-sponsored program to replace Palestinians and their land
with Jews and Jewish villages.
"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know
the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography
books no longer exist, not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are
not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the
place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushu'a in
the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not one single place built in this country
that did not have a former Arab Population."
Moshe Dayan, Israeli war hero, Address to the Technion, Haifa
(as quoted in Ha'aretz, April 4, 1969)
