"At Israel’s birth, a terror campaign was waged by Zionists to force Palestinians to run for their lives. And it succeeded. An estimated 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes. One terrorist was a young Menachem Begin, who’d go on to become Israel’s sixth prime minister.

Palestinian victims of ethnic cleansing were never allowed to return home – a violation of international law – strictly because they weren’t Jewish. More than 400 Palestinian villages and towns were wiped off the map. Like Israeli leaders – including David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, who changed his name from David Grün, Palestine’s geographic locations were renamed to legitimize Zionist settler colonialism."

[theprogressivejew.substack.com]