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13 Bulus Farah, From Ottoman Rule to a Hebrew State: The Life Story of a Communist
and a Palestinian Patriot, 1910–1991, al-Sawt, Haifa, 1985 and a Hebrew version
appeared with a forward by Udi Adiv in 2009, pp. 120–21.
14 The protocol in full is in Tom Segev, 1949: The First Israelis, Holt and Company,
New York, 1986, pp. 68–72.
15 Hanna Nakkarah, Memoirs, unpublished manuscript, p. 38.
16 This relationship in the past and in the present is explored in several sources. The
most comprehensive ones are Ella Shohat, Israeli Cinema, East/West and the Politics
of Representation, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1989; Sami Shalom Chetrit,
Intra-Jewish Conflict in Israel: White Jews, Black Jews, Routledge, Oxford, 2009;
and Yehouda Shenhav, The Arab Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion
and Ethnicity, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2006.
17 IDF Archives, 49/6127, telegram from Brigade 7, HQ, 17 July 1948 and
Ben-Gurion’s reply scribbled on it.
18 See the historical background chapter in the Arab Association for Human Rights
2005 report titled ‘On the Margins 2005: Annual Review of Human Rights
Violations of the Arab Palestinian Minority in Israel 2005’, Nazareth, 2005, and
available electronically on the Association’s website: www.arabhra.org.
19 Muhammad Hasan Amara and Abd el-Rahman Mar’i, Language Education Policy:
The Arab Minority in Israel, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 2002 and
Muhammad Amara and Sufyan Kabha, A Divided Identity: Political Division and
Social Implications in a Divided Village, Institute for Peace Studies, Givat Haviva,
1996.
20 Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing, pp. 193–95.
21 Ibid., pp. 91–103.
22 ‘Wedding at Beit Safafa’, Time magazine, 3 September 1956.
23 See the interview with survivors quoted in Ilan Pappé, ‘The Tantura Case in
Israel: The Katz Research and Trial’, Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 30, no. 3
(Spring 2001), pp. 19–39.
24 In fact Ben-Gurion already declared many parts of Palestine as purely Jewish for
the first time after two thousand years in his speech to the Zionist Executive on
6 April 1948, see David Ben-Gurion, In the Campaign, vol. 5, Tel Aviv, Israeli
Ministry of Defense, 1952, pp. 288–301 (Hebrew).
25 This is the theory put forward in Yair Bäuml, A Blue and White Shadow: The Israeli
Establishment’s Policy and Actions among the Arab Citizens. The Formative Years,
1958–1968, Pardes, Haifa, 2007.
26 On Palmon’s role in the 1948 ethnic cleansing, see Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing,
pp. 20–21, 52–3.
27 Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge, 2003, p. 529.
28 14 January 1953.
29 Moshe Sharett, Political Diary, Am Oved, Tel Aviv, 1972, vol. 5, p. 506 (Hebrew).
30 See more on Sharett in Ilan Pappé, ‘An Uneasy Coexistence: Arabs and Jews in
the First Decade of Statehood’ in S. I. Troen and N. Lucas (eds), Israel: The First
Decade of Independence, SUNY Press, New York, 1995, pp. 633–51.
31 Elie Rekhess, ‘Initial Israeli Policy Guidelines towards the Arab Minority,
1948–1949’, in L. J. Silberstein (ed.), New Perspectives on Israeli History: The Early
Years of the State, SUNY Press, New York, 1991, pp. 103–23.
32 Segev, 1949: The First Israelis, p. 60.
33 Ian Lustick, Arabs in the Jewish State: Israel’s Control of a National Minority,
University of Texas Press, Austin, 1980, p. 78.
34 These ideas were aired in a meeting Ben-Gurion had with his Advisors on Arab
Affairs in Tiberias and recorded in his diary. Ben-Gurion Archives, Ben-Gurion’s
Diary, entry 18 December 1948.
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