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Crimes Against Humanity
Destroyed Villages
Over a period of two years, from 1947-1949, the Zionists demolished 419 Arab villages and
depopulated the Palestinian Arabs in those towns. When the state of Israel was established
in 1948 it became apparant that this Zionist policy was a systematic state-sponsored
program to replace Palestinians and their land with Jews and Jewish villages.
The following are some quotes by a Palestinian
author, Walid Khalidi
and Israeli war hero, Moshe Dayan
By the end of the 1948 war, hundreds of entire
villages had not only been depopulated but obliterated, their houses blown up or
bulldozed. While many of the sites are difficult to access, to this day the observant
traveller of Israeli roads and highways can see traces of their presence that would escape
the notice of the casual passer-by: a fenced-in area, often surmounting a gentle hill, of
olive and other fruit trees left untended, of cactus hedges and domesticated plants run
wild. Now and then a few crumbled houses are left standing, a neglected mosque or church,
collapsing walls along the ghost of a village lane, but in the vast majority of cases, all
that remains is a scattering of stones and rubble across a forgotten landscape.
Walid Khalidi, Palestinian
author, All That Remains.
Jewish villages
were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab
villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist, not only do the
books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of
Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and
Kefar Yehushu'a in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not one single place built in this
country that did not have a former Arab Population.
