#418 – Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris

3955.436 - 3981.29 Steven Bonnell (Destiny)

The idea of transfer... It was there, but it was never adopted as policy. But in 1947-48, the Arabs attacked, trying to destroy essentially the Jewish, the Zionist enterprise and the emerging Jewish state. And the reaction was a transfer in some way, not as policy, but this is what happened on the battlefield. And this is also what Ben-Gurion at some point began to want as well.