—– 2004 Benny Morris interview – Haaretz continued —–
8. I assert that a mistake was made here. Yes. The non-completion of the transfer was a mistake.” ” Transfer (expulsion) was inevitable and inbuilt into Zionism—because it sought to transform a land which was ‘Arab’ into a ‘Jewish’ state and a Jewish state could not have arisen without a major displacement of Arab population.
9. Ben Gurion especially would lie quite bluntly to lots of people about lots of things in the course of ’48 and feel good about it, because he knew that it was much more important, morally speaking, to assure the survival of his people and of his state than to speak truthfully to some guy from Turkey or France.