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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables
Acknowledgements
Preface
1. An ‘Alleged’ Ethnic Cleansing?
Definitions of Ethnic Cleansing
Ethnic Cleansing as a Crime
Reconstructing an Ethnic Cleansing
2. The Drive for an Exclusively Jewish State
Zionism’s Ideological Motivation
Military Preparations
The Village Files
Facing the British: 1945–1947
David Ben-Gurion: The Architect
3. Partition and Destruction: UN Resolution 181 and its Impact
Palestine’s Population
The UN’s Partition Plan
The Arab and Palestinian Positions
The Jewish Reaction
The Consultancy Begins its Work
4. Finalising A Master Plan
The Methodology of Cleansing
The Changing Mood in the Consultancy: From Retaliation to Intimidation
December 1947: Early Actions
January 1948: Farewell to Retaliation
The Long Seminar: 31 December–2 January
February 1948: Shock and Awe
March: Putting the Finishing Touches to the Blueprint
5. The Blueprint for Ethnic Cleansing: Plan Dalet
Operation Nachshon: The First Plan Dalet Operation
The Urbicide of Palestine
The Cleansing Continues
Succumbing to a Superior Power
Arab Reactions
Towards the ‘Real War’
6. The Phony War and the Real War over Palestine: May 1948
Days of Tihur
The Massacre at Tantura
The Brigades’ Trail of Blood
Campaigns of Revenge
7. The Escalation of the Cleansing Operations: June–September 1948
The First Truce
Operation Palm Tree
In Between Truces
The Truce that Wasn’t
8. Completing the Job: October 1948–January 1949
Operation Hiram
Israel’s Anti-Repatriation Policy
A Mini Empire in the Making
Final Cleansing of the South and the East
The Massacre in Dawaymeh
9. Occupation and its Ugly Faces
Inhuman Imprisonment
Abuses Under Occupation
Dividing the Spoils
Desecration of Holy Sites
Entrenching the Occupation
10. The Memoricide of the Nakba
The Reinvention of Palestine
Virtual Colonialism and the JNF
The JNF Resort Parks in Israel
11. Nakba Denial and the ‘Peace Process’
First Attempts at Peace
The Exclusion of 1948 from the Peace Process
The Right of Return
12. Fortress Israel
The ‘Demographic Problem’
Epilogue
Endnotes
Chronology
Maps and Tables
Bibliography
Index
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