In its entire history, Israel has never sought to have a country of only Jewish Israelis. In 1948, when six Arab armies went to war against the newly established State of Israel, Israel fought to secure its borders, but never sought to simply expel residents on the basis of their religion, ethnicity, or creed. According to Benny Morris, the foremost historian of the Palestinian refugee crisis, “ethnic cleansing was not carried out” during the 1948 war. Though responsibility lay with both the Palestinian Arabs and Israelis in 1948 for the refugee crisis, Israel never sought to ethnically cleanse the territory of their state of Arabs.
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