Al Nakba deniers, and Joan Petersists.

[Andy Bowden]

Does anyone have some good sources on ethnic cleansing in the Palestinian mandate in 1948 - to refute the whole "the arabs told them to leave, there was no deir yassin massacre" bullshit?

And on the theory proposed by Joan Peters that Palestine was uninhabited, and the Palestinians were all illegal immigrants who took advantage...



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[Severian]

The definitive refutation of Joan Peters&#39; fraud is reputed to be Norman Finkelstein&#39;s; Here&#39;s a review of his book on the subject. (http://www.mepc.org/public_asp/journal_vol7/9910_bleier.asp)
A brief summary of the controversy (http://zpedia.org/From_Time_Immemorial)

Stuff about the more general topic:
Text of Plan Dalet (http://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/historicaldocuments/31.shtml), the Zionist military plan, drawn up before the foundation of Israel or the beginning of the 1948 war, which called for the expulsion of Palestinian civilians

Electronic Intifada&#39;s al-Naqba index page (http://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/171.shtml)
Their Deir Yassin index page (http://electronicintifada.net/bytopic/257.shtml)

Historical resources index page of Al-Awda, the Right of Return Coalition (http://www.al-awda.org/resources/)

The books of Israeli historian Benny Morris are also an important contribution to this debate; in some respects he mimizes Israeli responsibility - and he&#39;s recently come out saying that he thinks the expulsions were correct&#33; - but he&#39;s done more than anybody to discredit the official view.

[Andy Bowden]

Thanks very much Severian, thats excellent stuff :)