10. Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2006), 45. 11. Quoted in ibid., 22. For evidence that the Zionists understood that their fighting forces had a decisive advantage over the Palestinians and that this situation allowed them to pursue aggressive policies against the Palestinians, see ibid., esp. 22-3, 26, 41, 44-46, 70, 79, 84. 12. Morris, 1948 and After, 15. 13. Ibid. 14. Morris, Righteous Victims, 393. 15. On the military balances in the 1956... read more