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  • Based on historical facts, the views of Arab and “New Historian” Israelis, have been that the Jewish/Israeli forces expelled the Palestinians from their land deliberately and systematically, and that was the end-product or crowning achievement of the Zionist ideology which always maintained that the Palestinians has to be transferred outside of Palestine. This scheme was materialized in 1948 when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled out of their land to create a Zionist State of Israel. Lecture parts: 1- The historical background of integral lineage between the Jewish national aspiration/Zionism and the rise of the European nationalism/colonialism. The Zionist movement search for a national colony along the lines of European colonial schemes. 2- The shift of the Zionist movement to associate with the Jewish Old Testimony    and the invention of the Holy land (Palestine), with total disregard to its native people (the Palestinians). 3- The ethnic cleansing of the native Palestinians in 1948/9 and later dates - the Creation of the Palestinian refugees’ problem and the refusal to accept the UN resolutions and the international calls for their return to their home. 4- The refugees’ locations; their legal status in the host countries; their quantity; their current living conditions and more.

    Reading Assignment:

    Salman Abu Sitta. International Conference on Palestine Refugees, Report, Paris, April 2000.

    Benny Morris: “Revisiting the Palestinian Exodus of 1948” in Avi Shlaim and Eugene Rogan (org). The War for Palestine, Cambridge University Press, 2001

    Bashir Nijim: Toward the De-Arabization of Palestine/Israel, 1945/1977, Kendall/Hunt, USA 1984