[lbo-talk] Saree Makdisi in the New York Times: "If Not Two States, Then One"

[David Green]

"Of course, as conflict between the two communities intensified, the inherent anti-Arab character of labor Zionism became more manifest, and when war came in 1948, the labor Zionist leadership of the new state under Ben Gurion was more than ready and willing to engage in ethnic cleansing. The process is what I described earlier as the "logic of settler colonialism"."
 
Also important to note that the planned ethnic cleansing began in earnest after the Nov. 1947 U.N. partition resolution, as Pappe and others have clarified. It took civil conflict but not "war"  or "invasion" to justify it.
 
David Green