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To: LindyBill who wrote (23573)	1/9/2004 2:46:42 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793623

This "Road to Jerusalem" conversion by Benny Morris must have really got to you, Nadine. Really. "ethnic cleansing is justifiable in the face of genocide"? Don't do me no favors, Benny. Benny Morris must live inside the arguments of his own head. Ben Gurion was not a "transferist" - and we know it for a simple reason. He had his chance to "transfer" ALL the Arabs of Palestine, and he didn't take it. Clearing out the population in strategic locations in a war where you are NOT the superior power, but are literally fighting for your survival, is not the same thing as "ethnic cleansing", which implies a superior power working its will on a helpless population. And we know of many examples where Ben Gurion had a clear choice, and chose not to remove Arabs. Before the end of Mandate, Golda Meir said she and Ben Gurion stood on the beach of Haifa for hours, trying to persuade the Arab population not to evacuate. They borrowed trucks from the British and did anyway. Was she lying? Ben Gurion was asked in 1948 if the Arabs should be cleared out from Nazareth. He said, no let them stay. It's plain that his criteria was not "transferist", but one of tactical necessity. Nor does Morris mention that the majority of refugees either evacuated before the end of the Mandate (that includes everybody with money), or fled in a panic when the Arab victory didn't materialize as promised.