Quotation from Yitzhak Pundak “We had to destroy them, otherwise we would have had Arabs here” — May 21 2004

Brigadier General, explaining 56 years after the events that it was nothing more than ethnic cleansing.

Author : Thematics :
" There were two hundred villages [in the front] and they are gone. We had to destroy them, otherwise we would have had Arabs here [namely in the southern part of Palestine] as we have in Galilee. We would have had another million Palestinians. "

Haaretz, Pundak, May 21 2004. As quoted by Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine , One World Publications, 2006, p.6.

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