Rev. and expanded. Originally published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1990

Includes bibliographical references and index

These essays, three of which appear for the first time, examine and elucidate aspects of the Arab exodus from Palestine in 1948, focusing on Israeli decision-making and the causes of the mass exile

The new historiography: Israel and its past -- Maipai, Mapam, and the Arab problem in 1948 -- The causes and character of the Arab exodus from Palestine: the Israel Defence Forces Intelligence Service analysis of June 1948 -- Yosef Weitz and the Transfer Committees, 1948-1949 -- Yosef Nahmani and the Arab Question in 1948 -- Haifa's Arabs: displacement and concentration, July 1948 -- The harvest of 1948 and the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem -- The case of Abu Ghos and Beit Naqquba, Al Fuereidis and Jisr Zarka in 1948, or why four villages remained -- The initial absorption of the Palestinian refugees in Arab host countries, 1948-1949 -- The transfer of Al Majdal's remaining Arabs to Gaza, 1950

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