Zionist FAQs: Letter from David Ben-Gurion to his son Amos, written 5 October 1937 Obtained from the Ben-Gurion Archives in Hebrew, and translated into English by the Institute of Palestine Studies-Beirut

Tantura-Haifa, May 1948, Note how men, women & children were seperated just before the massacre

As you contemplate the below letter, please note:

A) David Ben-Gurion admitted to his son Amos his plans to dispossess Palestinians from their homes and lands almost a decade before Nakba.

B) When David spoke of the diaspora Jews, he named almost every European Jewish community; but Arab Jews weren't even in the picture. This confirms that Israel was created for Europe's Jews and Arab Jews were airlifted only after Europe's Jews voted with their feet and immigrated to the Americas to live with the Gentiles; not the emptied country (Palestine). This is a fact the persists to this date.

C) David admitted that the Negev was thinly populated with Jews which was barren as of the time this letter was written. This implies that the Zionist myth that Jews bloomed the Negev must have evolved way after Nakba, and we strongly suspect that was the case ONLY after the 67 War when most American Jews became Zionists (not before).

Jaffa National Christian Orthodox School (1938)

D) The original version of this letter was doctored to imply that Ben-Gurion was not planning a Nakba for Palestinians. Here is a brief rebuttal which is well documented at length at Wikipedia: 1) Israeli historians (Shabtai Teveth, Benny Morris, Ilan Pappe, and several others) deemed it to be doctored (here is a saved version) because Ben-Gurion is not known to add corrections to his handwritten letters, 2) Pappe found another version with similar intentions to drive Palestinians out of their homes and lands, 3) Teveth translated a version (before Morris reported it) but it didn't have the corrections whatsoever, and most importantly the 4) so-called correction doesn't jive with the rest of the meaning and spirit of the letter.

E) Just in case you still believe that the letter was not doctored, here is a NY Times article written in late 1970 documenting how the Israeli government at the time censored Yitzhak Rabin's admission that it was Ben-Gurion who ordered him to ethnically cleanse between 70k to 90k Palestinians out of their homes in the twin cities of Lydda and al-Ramla in July 1948. Just in case you think that Rabin was remorseful, it is worth pointing out that it was Rabin himself who ended up doing the same thing 19 years later for the Palestinian residents in the villages nearby Latrun pocket: Imwas, Yalu, and Bayt Nuba. We hope this letter & Rabin's admission settles the case of denying Nakba for good.

If you are interested in the PDF version of this letter, click here to download it, and here is the Hebrew version as well.