GLOBAL DIALOGUE Volume 4 ● Number 3 ● Summer 2002—The Al-Aqsa Intifada NUR MASALHA Nur Masalha is senior lecturer and director of the Holy Land Research Project at St Mary’s College, University of Surrey, England.
he first United States ambassador to Israel, James McDonald, told of a conversation he had with the president of Israel, Chaim Weizmann, during which Weizmann spoke in “messianic” terms about the 1948 Palestinian exodus as a “miraculous simplification of Israel’s tasks”. McDonald said that not one of Israel’s “big three”—Weizmann, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett—and no responsible Zionist leader had anticipated such a “miraculous clearing of the land”. |
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The Palestinian Nakba: Zionism, ‘Transfer’ and the 1948 Exodus
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