 There were shameful episodes...There was no necessity for all the villages to be emptied..." "

This article was first published in Middle Eastern Studies, January 1986.Much of this article deals with Morris' explication and interpretation of a document found in 1985 in the papers of Aharon Cohen called ""The Emigration of the Arabs of Palestine in the Period 1/12/1947 – 1/6/1948"" that had been produced by Israeli Defence Forces Intelligence Service sometime during the first truce.