PHOTO: Defense Minister Moshe Dayan

By The Editors

Defense Minister Moshe Dayan describing construction of Israeli sites in places where Palestinian villages once stood: “Jewish localities were established in place of Arab villages. You don’t even know the names of those Arab villages, and I don’t blame you, because those geography texts no longer exist. Not only the books are gone; the Arab villages are also gone: Nahalal in place of Ma’lul; Kibbutz Gvat in place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in place of Huneifis; Kfar Yehoshua in place of Tal Al-Shuman. Wherever Jews built, they built on land where Arabs once lived.” ("Ha’aretz," April 4,1969)

Defense Minister Moshe Dayan describing construction of Israeli sites in places where Palestinian villages once stood (Drawn from the Facing the Nakba Curriculum)