This organizzation addreses the claim that Jews left behind $300 billion worth of property, based, in large part, on existing deeds to property...
http://wojac.com/
And where on their website do they give details of their evidence? Or do you expect us to go looking for evidence which backs up your claim that the average Arab Jewish family left behind a million dollars worth of property? -- and that assumes very small families.
Morris says in his book on the '48 War and has said in interviews there was NEVER an official Israeli gov't policy of Arab expulsion during the '48 War.
Read the interview again. I get the impression that the policy was officially unofficial.
He would have loved to have uncovered such a plan, as would any of the so-called New Historians, when the archives were declassified, but, none has ever been found, nor, is there evidence such a policy existed.
He himself feels it was the case that Ben-Gurion gave the orders, and he cites the evidence he has: it would be too big a coincidence if expulsion orders were signed immediately after Ben-Gurion visited with Moshe Carmel and Yitzhak Rabin.
Read it again, in answer to an explicit question:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=380986&contrassID=2
Haaretz said:
What you are telling me here, as though by the way, is that in Operation Hiram there was a comprehensive and explicit expulsion order. Is that right?
"Yes. One of the revelations in the book is that on October 31, 1948, the commander of the Northern Front, Moshe Carmel, issued an order in writing to his units to expedite the removal of the Arab population. Carmel took this action immediately after a visit by Ben-Gurion to the Northern Command in Nazareth. There is no doubt in my mind that this order originated with Ben-Gurion. Just as the expulsion order for the city of Lod, which was signed by Yitzhak Rabin, was issued immediately after Ben-Gurion visited the headquarters of Operation Dani [July 1948]."
So it is Morris's opinion that Ben-Gurion gave the explusion order.
You are misrepresenting Morris, for reasons I've stated.
You'll have to explain his words very carefully in order to convince me of that. Perhaps if you link to quotes of his. I have done so: he believes the expulsion orders came from Ben-Gurion. Did he find official papers detailing that this was official policy? No. But he did find a pattern of expulsions which leads him to the conclusion that there was "an atmosphere of [population] transfer. The transfer idea is in the air. The entire leadership understands that this is the idea. The officer corps understands what is required of them. Under Ben-Gurion, a consensus of transfer is created."
That is Morris' opinion, from his own mouth. And from that I conclude he agrees that Arabs were forced out by the Israeli government.
You'd do better to quible on the meaning of the word "government" than to challenge what Morris' opinion is.
I've read all of Morris's books and have read much else written about him. I've spoken with and have corresponded with Morris. I'm quite knowledgeable about Benny Morris.
Then how do you explain his responses in the Haaretz interview? Care to share other quotes of Morris which might back up your claims?
The sense among Israelis that Pals are not interested in peace is further deepened by the events surrounding unilateral withrawal from Gaza by Israel, in a land-for-peace agreement that led to 6,000 rockets fired into Israel from Gaza since the withrawal.
You have it wrong again. The withdrawal was unilateral -- there was no agreement. Since political negotiations didn't bring about the withdrawal, what did? Could it have been violent resistance?
Do you honestly think that the fact you have been caught out yet again blatantly making stuff up is not obvious to all?
