Words of the Week: Shlomo Avineri

“It is also true that what is called the Nakba is the result of a political decision by the Palestinian leadership and the Arab states to reject the United Nations partition resolution, to try to prevent its implementation by force and to attack the Jewish community in the Land of Israel before and after the state’s establishment.”

Source: Shlomo Avineri, “The Nakba According to Haaretz,” in (to its credit) Haaretz.