The Violent Truth About Israel's Expulsion of Palestinians in 1948 Is Nothing New

[...] The headline misses the mark. Palestinians told the "true story" of '48 long before these documents surfaced. The essence of that story has always been clear: the Hebrew army expelled them intentionally, and one of the means it employed was acts of murder and massacre.

[...] The subheadline does not fully align with the article itself: Raz mentions Palestinian prose literature and studies – by Saleh Abd al-Jawad and Adel Manna – based on oral testimonies. Those studies and literary works, even if published after the Nakba, drew on firsthand knowledge of what had occurred. That knowledge came from hundreds of thousands of people who experienced the events as they unfolded.

[...] Documents – especially those produced by the exploiting and profiting party, by the expeller and the massacre – add crucial detail. They allow for precision: the sequence of events, dates, types of weapons and ammunition, the names of those who gave orders, and the motives and objectives as defined by their authors. But to present such documents as if they alone reveal the truth – or as if truth exists only once they surface – is to grant the perpetrator the exclusive first and last word in determining what the true story is.

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026-03-03/ty-article/.premium/the-violent-truth-about-israels-expulsion-of-palestinians-in-48-is-nothing-new/0000019c-adb6-db6a-a7bc-efffd6bb0000 or https://archive.ph/XdgUs#selection-969.0-969.404

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