Quotation from Yigal Allon “A couple of … bombardments on Hebron and not a single 'Hebronite' would have remained” — Nov. 1967
Former commander of the Palmach, Deputy Prime Minister in 1967, he called for a new ethnic cleansing on the scale of the Nakba.
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- Allon, Yigal (1918-1980) ( 2 quotations )
- Ethnic cleansing through violence ( 133 quotations )
- State terrorism after 1948 ( 45 quotations )
" Is this the way to occupy Hebron? A couple of artillery bombardments on Hebron and not a single 'Hebronite' would have remained there. Is this the way to occupy [East] Jerusalem [without driving most of the Arabs out]. "
Nur Masalha A land without a people , Faber and Faber, 1997, p. 179, quoting Tzvi Shiloah Ashmat Yerushalayim [The Guilt of Jerusalem] (1989), pp. 53 et 281. Shiloah pointed out that Allon’s commentary was also valid for Nablus (p.54).
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