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Episode: Help AICE continue to maintain the Jewish Virtual Library
Description: Help AICE continue to maintain the Jewish Virtual Library as the best resource for journalists, scholars, students and the curious about Jewish history, politics and culture...
For more than 70 years, we have heard about the Palestinian refugees. The reference is always to Palestinian Arab refugees and ignores the Jews who were displaced during the 1948 War. According to historian Nurit Cohen-Levinovsky, 97 Jewish villages were attacked and damaged, 11 of these were destroyed and 6 were conquered resulting in at least 60,000 Jews becoming refugees. Another historian, Benny Morris, estimated the number at 70,000.Â
Over the last eight years, two tactics have been employed to minimize or...