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| List of Illustrations, Maps and Tables | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Preface | |
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| An 'Alleged' Ethnic Cleansing? | |
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| Definitions of Ethnic Cleansing | |
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| Ethnic Cleansing as a Crime | |
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| Reconstructing an Ethnic Cleansing | |
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| The Drive for an Exclusively Jewish State | |
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| Zionism's Ideological Motivation | |
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| Military Preparations | |
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| The Village Files | |
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| Facing the British: 1945-1947 | |
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| David Ben-Gurion: The Architect | |
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| Partition and Destruction: UN Resolution 181 and its Impact | |
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| Palestine's Population | |
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| The UN's Partition Plan | |
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| The Arab and Palestinian Positions | |
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| The Jewish Reaction | |
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| The Consultancy Begins its Work | |
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| Finalising A Master Plan | |
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| The Methodology of Cleansing | |
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| The Changing Mood in the Consultancy: From Retaliation to Intimidation | |
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| December 1947: Early Actions | |
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| January 1948: Farewell to Retaliation | |
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| The Long Seminar: 31 December-2 January | |
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| February 1948: Shock and Awe | |
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| March: Putting the Finishing Touches to the Blueprint | |
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| The Blueprint for Ethnic Cleansing: Plan Dalet | |
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| Operation Nachshon: The First Plan Dalet Operation | |
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| The Urbicide of Palestine | |
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| The Cleansing Continues | |
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| Succumbing to a Superior Power | |
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| Arab Reactions | |
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| Towards the 'Real War' | |
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| The Phony War and the Real War over Palestine: May 1948 | |
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| Days of Tihur | |
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| The Massacre at Tantura | |
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| The Brigades 'Trail of Blood | |
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| Campaigns of Revenge | |
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| The Escalation of the Cleansing Operations: June-September 1948 | |
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| The First Truce | |
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| Operation Palm Tree | |
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| In Between Truces | |
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| The Truce that Wasn't | |
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| Completing the Job: October 1948-January 1949 | |
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| Operation Hiram | |
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| Israel's Anti-Repatriation Policy | |
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| A Mini Empire in the Making | |
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| Final Cleansing of the South and the East | |
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| The Massacre in Dawaymeh | |
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| Occupation and its Ugly Faces | |
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| Inhuman Imprisonment | |
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| Abuses Under Occupation | |
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| Dividing the Spoils | |
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| Desecration of Holy Sites | |
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| Entrenching the Occupation | |
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| The Memoricide of the Nakba | |
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| The Reinvention of Palestine | |
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| Virtual Colonialism and the JNF | |
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| The JNF Resort Parks in Israel | |
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| Nakba Denial and the 'Peace Process' | |
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| First Attempts at Peace | |
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| The Exclusion of 1948 from the Peace Process | |
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| The Right of Return | |
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| Fortress Israel | |
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| The 'Demographic Problem' | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Maps and Tables | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |