Quotation from David Ben Gurion “Expulsion of the residents along with the seizure of the place” — Dec. 19 1947

Barely twenty days after the UN General Assembly voted for the establishment of two states, and one month before the arrival of the first ALA fighters opposed to a Jewish state, Ben-Gurion provided the Haganah with rules of engagement, according to which any attack would result in the material or human destruction of the premises.