The Expulsion of the Palestinians
The idea of expelling the indigenous population of Palestine goes back to the birth of the Zionist movement in the 19th century.
Many ideas are coming now in 2025 from the US and Israel about “relocating” the Palestinians of Gaza, to use a euphemism for “forced expulsion”. This is not new. It is important to remember that the idea of expelling the indigenous population of Palestinan is part of Zionist ideology, showing the enormous hypocrisy in the following often-cited Zionist phrase: “A land without a people for a people without a land”. There was indeed already a people in that land, as the first Zionists knew full well.
“The Jewish state envisioned by Zionism was to be exclusively Jewish, for only in such a state, according to Zionist doctrine, would it be possible to escape anti-Semitism. That Palestine was also populated by Arabs was either ignored or regarded as an inconvenience to be removed or at best tolerated.”
(source : How Political Zionism Shaped the Modern Israeli State, peoplesworld.org)
“The archives show that the Zionists’ plan always was, from the beginning, the destruction of Palestine’s indigenous civilization and the ethnic cleansing of its non-Jewish population.”
(source : The Cult of the Zionists An Historical Enigma, Thomas Suárez)
Herzl admitted in his diary in 1895: “We must expropriate them gently. The process of expropriation and the displacement of the poor must be carried out both secretly and cautiously.”
“Israel Zangville, a close associate of Theodore Herzl, explained in the British press during the First World War: ‘If we could expropriate the 600,000 Arabs of Palestine with compensation, or if we could get them to emigrate to Arabia, because they move easily, that would be the solution to Zionism's greatest difficulty.’ “
(source : Israel, Palestine, Truth About a Conflict, Alain Gresh, 2001)
“In less than six months, from December 1947 to mid-May 1948, Zionist armed groups expelled about 440,000 Palestinians from 220 villages.”
“During the 1948 war, some 750,000 Arabs either fled in panic or were driven from their homes to become refugees living in wretched settlements of tents and shacks in the surrounding Arab countries, mainly in Jordan.”
(source : The Nakba did not start or end in 1948, Al-Jazeera)