The massacres of my family’s village occurred before partition and before the formation of “Israel”. It occurred as part of the ethnic cleansing plan devised decades prior called Plan Dalet.
12 July 1937, Ben-Gurion entered in his diary: “The compulsory transfer of the Arabs from the valleys of the proposed Jewish state could give us something which we never had, even when we stood on our own feet during the days of the First and Second Temple”
– a Galilee free from Arab population.