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Montefiore alleges 1948 Lydda and Ramle expulsions were a war crime
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True History of the Middle East with Simon Sebag Montefiore
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"There are apparently allegedly verbal orders given by Benorium to drive out the Arab populations of Ramler and LA. And this is the notorious um driving out of between of over 40,000 um Palestinian Arabs from their towns in an an unforgivable atrocity which we now call cleansing."
Simon Sebag Montefiore alleges Israeli forces expelled tens of thousands of Palestinians from Lydda and Ramle during the 1948 war, calling it an atrocity and describing it as ethnic cleansing. He says it was driven by strategic concerns and claims the decision was disputed and may have involved alleged verbal orders.
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- True History of the Middle East with Simon Sebag Montefiore
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