Quotation from Yosef Weitz “Solved by itself by the return to the villages of the [land’s] owners” — May 27 1949
One year after the expulsion of the Palestinians, the head of the KKL/JNF acknowledges that the expelled Palestinians are the rightful owners of the land, but urges the government to prevent any return.
- Weitz, Yosef (1886-1972) ( 9 quotations )
- Palestinians are at home elsewhere... ( 40 quotations )
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"Slowly but surely, abandoned villages are vanishing as they are resettled [by Arabs], partially or completely… Many thousands of dunams formerly considered abandoned lands – are now being [cultivated] or claimed by their owners, and it is clear to me that, if the refugee problem is not shortly resolved by resettlement [in Arab countries] – ther day is not far when it will be solved by itself by the return to the villages of the [land’s] owners.
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Benny Morris, Israel’s Border Wars 1949-1956 : Arab Infiltration ; Israeli Retaliation, and the countdown to the Suez War, Claredon Presss, 1993, p. 117.
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