i remember coming across this view back in my research days and being shocked but it is a clear, cold truth.

everyone should by now understand that women & children in palestine are not collateral damage in the search for “terrorists”—they are the intended targets.

israeli leadership regrets not doing full on “clearing” in 1948 and are playing catch up; this historian said the quiet part out loud. to me, genocide is a desperate survival tactic for the weak not the strong.

benny morris: “if he was already engaged in expulsion, maybe he should have done a complete job. I know that this stuns the Arabs and the liberals and the politically correct types. But my feeling is that this place would be quieter and know less suffering if the matter had been resolved once and for all. If Ben-Gurion had carried out a large expulsion and cleaned the whole country - the whole Land of Israel, as far as the Jordan River. It may yet turn out that this was his fatal mistake. If he had carried out a full expulsion - rather than a partial one - he would have stabilized the State of Israel for generations... Even the great American democracy could not have been created without the annihilation of the Indians. There are cases in which the overall, final good justifies harsh and cruel acts that are committed in the course of history.”

—haaretz interview, 1/8/2004, by ari shavit, “survival of the fittest”