Looking at Palestine from Zion

The past few weeks I have been on a mission to meet and hear from Palestinian and Jewish voices. The angst, ambivalence, and longings associated with this journey found catharsis and resonance for me in a comment of Rashi to this weeks Parashah. This is from my heart.

An explotation of the backdrop to the Tiberias massacre of Oct. 7 1938 and its similarities to Oct. 7

Transcript of my notes for the episode:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YZ-HW_Z_OcGkI0OuYdDEVzKBuM8dOYwpPmKCG6YjhLI/edit?usp=sharing

Bibliography:
1929 Ground Zero by Hilel Cohen
Palestine 1936 by Kessler
ספר תולדות ההגנה
Oriental Neighbors by Jacobson and Naor
Hebrew Article in Ha'aretz about the Assasination of Zaki Alhadif
Sept. 9th 1938 Article in Davar about the assasination of an Arab civil servant
Sept 7th article in Davar about Tiberias Shooting in a store
Rabbi Jacob Beirav's Zimrat Ha'Aretz
TIberias and Its Arab Residents during the British Mandate by Mustafa Abbasi
JTA article about the assasination of Arab city council member

Thus episode revisits the letter Ben Gurion wrote to his son that I addressed in the earlier episode "Cleansing Pappe's Distortions." Here I seek to put that letter into the context of Ben-Gurion's well documented statements on transfer made over the course of decades. I draw conclutions about the motivations of Ben-Gurion's interpreters and the implications for the conflict in general.

List of sources cited:

The 1918 article that Ben Gurion wrote in the Yiddish organ of the Jewish Socialist Party Poalei Tzion -- Hebrew Version: https://benyehuda.org/read/1469 
For the English translation see My Talks with Arab Leaders pg. 7-8 :
https://archive.org/details/MyTalksWithArabLeadersDavidBenGurionTranslatedFromTheHebrewByAryehRubinsteinAndMishaLouvish/page/n13/mode/2up)

1924,speech given at Kibbutz Ein Charod Ben Gurion:
https://benyehuda.org/read/1469

Ben-Gurions 1929 Plan for a Bi-National State that was presented in 1930 and published in 1931:

For an English Summary of the 1929 plan see My Talks with Arab Leaders by Ben Gurion ppg. 23-24

For the partition plan that that Ben Gurion conceived of in early 1937 and his embrace of transfer in a letter to his son Amos see Letters to Paula by Ben Gurion pg. 129 Letter dated July 27, 1937): https://archive.org/details/letterstopaula00davi/page/128/mode/2up

For Ben-Gurions embrace of population transfer in his diary entry of July 12, 1937

Ben Gurion's testimony for the UNSCOP committee

March 23, 1941, Guideline for Zionist Policy, Submitted to the Jewish Agency Executive Meeting, in Jerusalem by Ben Gurion:
https://israeled.org/resources/documents/david-ben-gurion-guideline-for-zionist-policy-1941/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Extended Bibliography:
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
The Birth of the Palestinian Refuge Problem, 1947-1949 by Benny Morris
Palestine 1936 by Oren Kessler
Ben-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel by Anita Shapira
Palestine Betrayed by Efraim Karsh
Industry of Lies by Ben-Dror Yemini
Journal of Palestine Studies Compounds its Ben-Gurion Error
JPS Responds to Camera's Call for Accuracy
Quoting Ben-Gurion: An Exchange
Benny Morris' Reign of Terror Revisited
Ilan Pappe and CAMERA: How the Zionists are fighting history
The Concept of "Transfer " in Zionist Thinking and Practice: Historical Roots and Contemporary Challenges
My Talks with Arab Leaders by David Ben Gurion
Letters to Paula and to the Children by David Ben Gurion

In the Spring and Summer of 1949 Israel offered repatriation of Gazan refugees. This episode includes that story and a critique of Ilan Pappe's recounting this historic episode.

Links

Time Magazine story

https://time.com/archive/6602801/middle-east-no-talk-no-peace/

Walter Eytan's letter to the chairman of the conciliation committee.

https://ecf.org.il/media_items/358?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1fCnUEgTYscYUUhH_5mdUgRRMXb3dsZV1oBsZcyRuVhh6uea0NU5PiNW8_aem_Hh0tTZeobsjwNpnlSvr7hA

Survey of Proposals to the Conciliation Committee

https://ecf.org.il/media_items/358?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1fCnUEgTYscYUUhH_5mdUgRRMXb3dsZV1oBsZcyRuVhh6uea0NU5PiNW8_aem_Hh0tTZeobsjwNpnlSvr7hA

Review of Neil Caplan's work on the Lausanne Conference:

https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/JCS/article/view/15205/16274

Lessons of the Failed Gaza Initiative from the Begin-Sadat Center:

https://besacenter.org/lessons-from-the-failed-gaza-initiative-of-1949/

Some Responses to Rashid Khalidis's Iron Cage