The idea of Israel has been based on killing, dispossessing and exiling all the non-Jews from the land given to them by God Almighty. David Ben-Gurion, the primary national founder and first prime minister of Israel, laid the foundation stone of what he used to call “Eretz Israel” (land given to Jews, Israel meaning the descendants of the tribes established by the sons of Jacob, the Jewish people), not on peaceful coexistence but on the idea of cleansing it from the “enemy.”

Born in Pionsk, Poland, to Jewish parents, Ben Grün immigrated to the Palestine region of the Ottoman Empire in 1906. Adopting the name of Ben-Gurion in 1909, as a major Zionist leader and the de facto leader of the Jewish community in Palestine, he never minced his words about the ownership of the “Eretz Israel.” In his early directives and instructions, he unashamedly used the word “tihur” (Hebrew word for cleaning, as in Arabic “tahir”), “nikkuy” (emptying), and “jihad” (as in Arabic “jihad,” meaning struggle or effort) as the main objective of his de-Arabization of Palestine.

For instance in his order for Operation Kippa (meaning “summit” as the aim of their struggle, but also "skullcap" in Hebrew) he despicably ordered his occupation brigades “their assault should aim: “Killing the enemy political leadership mukhtars” (the village aldermen as in Turkish “muhtar”), killing the inciters and their financial supporters and killing those villagers who joined assault against Jews during the British Mandatory System in Palestine.

If you look at Israeli historian and political scientist Ilan Pappe’s excellent co

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