The Nakba: Port of Haifa
By Shai Fogelman, Haaretz – 26 May 2011
www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1229312.html
Why did the Arabs of Haifa flee in 1948? Didn’t Haifa’s Jewish mayor ask them to stay? Maybe because Haganah (the primary pre-state Jewish military organization in Palestine) mortar rounds shot at the midst of the civilian crowds in the market, spoke another language. Here is a story that Israeli historians do not like to tell. (HEBREW)
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