Relating to Segev, Ben-Gurion thought it unbecoming for an Israeli official to reside in a house confiscated from an Arab: it absolutely was as if he desired ‘to draw a line between himself and all sorts of that’. Just exactly What, precisely, had been ‘all that’? In certain cases, Ben-Gurion will say that since half the Arabs had kept through the Mandate these people were responsibility that is britain’s and since one other half had kept through the war these people were maybe maybe perhaps not refugees but enemies. Continue reading →