- "Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab
villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I
do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the
books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in
the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid
in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman.
There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former
Arab population."
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- ~ David Ben Gurion quoted in The Jewish Paradox, by
Nahum Goldmann, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978, p. 99.
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