1998/01/01 by Nathan Krystall · 17 citations
Social Sciences · #American west #Ancient history #Archaeology #Deportation #Economic history #Ethnology #Geography #Government (linguistics) #History #Immigration #Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies #Judaism #Looting #Political science #Settlement (finance) #State (computer science)
paper · doi:10.2307/2538281
published in Journal of Palestine Studies 27(2), 5-22 (Taylor & Francis)
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This article describes the progressive depopulation of the Arab neighborhoods of West Jerusalem following the outbreak of the fighting in late 1947. By the time the State of Israel was proclaimed on 15 May 1948, West Jerusalem already had fallen to Zionist forces. Quoting from eyewitness accounts, the author recounts the widespread looting that followed the Arab evacuation and the settlement of Jewish immigrants and Israeli government officials in the Arab houses. By the end of 1949, all of West Jerusalem's Arab neighborhoods had been settled by Israelis.