"No reasonable person still believes that there were no acts of expulsion and massacre by the Jewish side in the 1948 war, which was launched by the Palestinian Arabs and the Arab states and which in my view was a justified war in defense of the Jewish community. It was a war in which the Arabs also committed massacres (at the Haifa refineries and in Kfar Etzion) and expulsions (from the Jewish Quarter in the Jerusalem’s Old City, for example), though to a lesser degree."
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Article in Haaretz, 15 July 2019, Morris, Benny. Opinion by Benny Morris: Israel’s Concealing of Nakba Documents Is Totalitarian, 15 July 2019, |date=15 July 2019 }}
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