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RARE find - please seed!!
Out of print and with the author having 'clarified' (read: recanted his scholarly and impeccable work and gone full-blown Zionist lover of Israel, much to his discredit) his position to undermine his books conclusions (Israel is to exclusively blame for the cause of the Palestinian refugee problem in 1948) this is most likely never to be reprinted - download, save and archive a copy here because once it's gone, it's gone!
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This book is the first full-length study of the birth of the Palestinian refugee problem. Based on recently declassified Israeli, British and American state and party political papers and on hitherto untapped private papers, it traces the stages of the 1947–9 exodus against the backdrop of the first Arab-Israeli war and analyses the varied causes of the flight. The Jewish and Arab decision-making involved, on national and local levels, military and political, is described and explained, as is the crystallisation of Israel's decision to bar a refugee repatriation. The subsequent fate of the abandoned Arab villages, lands and urban neighbourhoods is examined. The study looks at the international context of the war and the exodus, and describes the political battle over the refugees' fate, which effectively ended with the deadlock at Lausanne in summer 1949. Throughout the book attempts to describe what happened rather than what successive generations of Israeli and Arab propagandists have said happened, and to explain the motives of the protagonists.
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