Discovered file in Israeli archives: Ben Gurion tried to supress the evidence for the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians
Catastrophic thinking: Did Ben-Gurion try to rewrite history?
The file in the state archives contains clear evidence that the
researchers at the time did not paint the full picture of Israel's role
in creating the Palestinian refugee problem.
The documents in the file, which date from 1960 to 1964, describe the evolution of the Israeli version of the Palestinian Nakba (“The Catastrophe”)
of 1948. Under the leadership of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, top
Middle East scholars in the Civil Service were assigned the task of
providing evidence supporting Israel’s position − which was that, rather
than being expelled in 1948, the Palestinians had fled of their own
volition.
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