Adam Raz :The Secret Letter Detailing Israel's Plan to Expel Arabs, 'Without Unnecessary Brutality'
HAARETZ.COM The secret letter detailing Israel's plan to expel Arabs, 'without unnecessary brutality' *** General's final confession links 1956 massacre to Israel's secret plan to expel Arabs Why is Israel still covering up extrajudicial executions committed by a Jewish militia in '48? Why is Israel still covering up extrajudicial executions committed by a Jewish militia in '48? The document reproduced here is important for three reasons. First, because of its content; second, because it's been classified; and third, because of the connection between the first reason and the second reason, which offers a lesson about the reciprocal relations between releasing historical documentation from archives and the recognition of history. The document is a “secret” letter dated December 4, 1949, half a year after the official conclusion of the War of Independence (following the signing of the armistice agreem