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David Ben-Gurion, in a speech to the …

Years: 1948 - 1948
February
David Ben-Gurion, in a speech to the Mapai Council on February 8th, 1948, states, “From your entry into Jerusalem, through Lifta, Romema [East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood] ... there are no [Palestinian] Arabs. One hundred percent Jews. Since Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans, it has not been Jewish as it is now. In many [Palestinian] Arab neighborhoods in the west one sees not a single [Palestinian] Arab. I do not assume that this will change. ...What had happened in Jerusalem...is likely to happen in many parts of the country...in the six, eight, or ten months of the campaign there will certainly be great changes in the composition of the population in the country.”(Masalha, Nur: Expulsion Of The Palestinians (Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992), p. 180-181")
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