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It goes where most others won't dare. It documents ethnic cleansing. It exposes what Israel goes to great lengths to conceal.
Its arguments are irrefutable. Sound evidence affirms them. It occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem to stay. It considered annexing Gaza. It seeks expanded territory for a greater Israel. It's the only country with no official borders.
Israeli officials acknowledge their international law violations. Raz explains Washington's complicit role. His title derives from former Prime Minister Levi Eshkol quote he perhaps wished he never said.
He called the West Bank and Gaza the "dowry" Israel's Six Day War won. "The trouble is that the dowry is followed by a bride whom we don't want," he said.
He referred to Palestinians. Before 1948, they were marked for ethnic cleansing. Israel wasted no time. It never stopped. Moshe Dayan explained. He told then Lt. General Yitzhak Rabin "that the aim was to empty the West Bank of its inhabitants."
How mattered less than doing it. In 1947-48, Israel expelled or slaughtered about 800,000 Palestinians. It destroyed 531 villages, as well as 11 urban areas in Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, and elsewhere.
In June 1967, it removed or killed another 200,000. Twenty or more additional West Bank villages were partially or totally destroyed. It was done "to obliterate the Green Line."
Israel "encouraged" Palestinians to flee. They terrorized them to move east of the Jordan River. Thousands who tried returning home when fighting ended were called "infiltrators."
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