Benny Morris advocates Transfer in the Guardian by Benny Morris 9:28am Fri Oct 4 '02 Rightwing Israelis are talking about 'transfer' - the expulsion of all Arabs. Shocking as it sounds, the idea once had support from British and Arab officials, reveals distinguished Israeli historian Benny Morris. And, continuing our series on the Arab-Israeli conflict, he argues the Middle East might now be at peace if Israel's first leader had driven out all the Palestinians in 1948 www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,80333... add your comments Source file

I have never met a Zionist who is not a racist by SWL 10:48am Fri Oct 4 '02 print comment Many years ago a friend of mine a Jeish socialsit asked in a meeting of "left" wing Zionists: Can a progressive Nazi exist? Yossi add your comments

Guardian: "corrections and clarifications" by The Guardian 9:59am Sat Oct 5 '02 print comment This appeared on Oct 5 in the Guardian's "corrections and clarifications" section: In Benny Morris's article on the expulsion of Palestinians from Israel, page 8, G2, October 3, a number of quotes were removed when the piece was edited to fit the available space. Mr Morris believes that the comments were significant because they revealed that some Arab leaders supported the idea of moving the Palestinians from the Jewish state during the 1940s. The following passage was cut from the piece: "Nuri Said, Iraq's senior politician, told a British interlocutor that if the British imposed a partition solution for Palestine, there would be a 'necessity of removing the Arabs from the Jewish state...' Lord Moyne, the British minister resident in the Middle East, reported that both Tewfiq Abul Huda, Transjordan's prime minister, and Mustafa Nahas Pasha, Egypt's prime minister, similarly believed that 'a final settlement can only be reached by means of partition'. Two years later, in 1946, Alec Kirkbride, Britain's knowledgeable representative in Amman, reported that 'King Abdullah and prime minister [Ibrahim Hashim] of Jordan consider that partition followed by an exchange of populations is the only practical solution to the Palestine problem. They do not feel able to express this view publicly.' Hashim 'thought that to leave Jews in an Arab state or Arabs in a Jewish state would lead inevitably to further trouble'." www.guardian.co.uk/corrections/story/0,3... add your comments

Letter to the editor, Guardian, Oct 5 by Baruch Kimmerling 12:34pm Sat Oct 5 '02 print comment False logic Saturday October 5, 2002 The Guardian Let me extend Benny Morris's logic (G2, October 3) in arguing that if the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in 1948 had been complete, there might have been peace today in the Middle East. If the Nazi programme for the final solution of the Jewish problem had been complete, for sure there would be peace today in Palestine. Prof Baruch Kimmerling Hebrew University, Jerusalem www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,... add your comments