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The Nakba is described as
ethnic cleansing by many scholars,
[78] including Palestinian scholars such as
Rashid Khalidi,
[79] Adel Manna,
[80] Nur Masalha,
[81] Nadim Rouhana,
[82] Ahmad H. Sa'di,
[83] and
Areej Sabbagh-Khoury,
[84] Israeli scholars such as
Alon Confino,
[85] Amos Goldberg,
[86] Baruch Kimmerling,
[87] Ronit Lentin,
[88] Ilan Pappé,
[89] and
Yehouda Shenhav,
[90] and foreign scholars such as
Abigail Bakan,
[91] Elias Khoury,
[92] Mark Levene,
[93] Derek Penslar,
[94] and
Patrick Wolfe,
[95] among other scholars.
[96]
Other scholars, such as Yoav Gelber,[97] Benny Morris,[98] and Seth J. Frantzman,[99] disagree that the Nakba constitutes an ethnic cleansing. Morris in 2016 rejected the description of "ethnic cleansing" for 1948, while also stating that the label of "partial ethnic cleansing" for 1948 was debatable; in 2004 Morris was responding to the claim of "ethnic cleansing" occurring in 1948 by stating that, given the alternative was "genocide - the annihilation of your people," there were "circumstances in history that justify ethnic cleansing ... It was necessary to cleanse the hinterland ... ['cleanse' was] the term they used at the time ... there was no choice but to expel the Palestinian population. To uproot it in the course of war"; Morris said this resulted in a "partial" expulsion of Arabs.
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National narratives
Palestinian national narrative
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The Palestinian national narrative regards the repercussions of the Nakba as a formative trauma defining its national, political and moral aspirations and its identity. The Palestinian people developed a victimized national identity in which they had lost their country as a result of the 1948 war. From the Palestinian perspective, they have been forced to pay for the Holocaust perpetrated in Europe with their freedom, properties and bodies instead of those who were truly responsible.
[11]
Shmuel Trigano, writing in the
Jewish Political Studies Review published by the
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, outlines the evolution of the Nakba narrative through three stages. Initially, it depicted Palestinians as victims displaced by Israel's creation to make way for Jewish immigrants. The next phase recast the
Six-Day War as Israel's colonization of Palestinian lands, aligning the Palestinian cause with anti-colonial sentiments. The final stage leverages Holocaust memories, accusing Israel of
apartheid, resonating with Western guilt over the Holocaust. He argues these evolving interpretations omit complex historical factors involving failed attempts to eliminate Israel, contested territorial claims, and
Jewish refugee displacement from Arab nations.
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Israeli national narrative
The Israeli national narrative rejects the Palestinian characterization of 1948 as the Nakba (catastrophe), instead viewing it as the War of Independence that
established Israel's statehood and sovereignty.
[13][11] It portrays the events of 1948 as the culmination of the Zionist movement and Jewish national aspirations, resulting in military success against invading Arab armies, armistice agreements, and recognition of Israel's legitimacy by the United Nations.
[13] While acknowledging some instances of Israeli responsibility for the Palestinian refugee crisis, as documented by historians like Benny Morris, the overarching Israeli narrative accommodates this within the context of Israel's emergence as a state under difficult war conditions, without negating Israel's foundational story and identity.
[13] It perceives the 1948 war and its outcome as an equally formative and fundamental event – as an act of justice and redemption for the Jewish people after centuries of historical suffering, and the key step in the "
negation of the Diaspora".
[11]
According to this narrative, the Palestinian Arabs voluntarily fled their homes during the war, encouraged by Arab leaders who told Palestinians to temporarily evacuate so that Arab armies could destroy Israel, and then upon losing the war, refused to integrate them.
[12] This viewpoint also contrasts
Jewish refugees absorbed by Israel with
Palestinian refugees kept stateless by Arab countries as political pawns. In contrast to the Palestinian narrative, claims that Arab villages were depopulated and that Palestinian homes were destroyed are not acknowledged by the mainstream Israeli narrative, typically using terminology such as "abandoned" property and "population exchange" rather than "confiscated" or "expelled."
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