Editing David Ben-Gurion (section)

===Role in 1948 exodus of Palestinians===
{{Main|Causes of the 1948 Palestinian exodus#Planning by Ben-Gurion}}

Israeli historian [[Benny Morris]] wrote that the idea of expulsion of Palestinian Arabs was endorsed in practice by mainstream Zionist leaders, particularly Ben-Gurion. He did not give clear or written orders in that regard, but Morris claims that Ben-Gurion's subordinates understood his policy well:<ref name="MorrisMorris2004">{{cite book|author1=Research Fellow Truman Institute Benny Morris|author2=Benny Morris|author3=Morris Benny|title=The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uM_kFX6edX8C&pg=PA597|year=2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-00967-6|pages=597–|quote=But no expulsion policy was ever enunciated and Ben-Gurion always refrained from issuing clear or written expulsion orders; he preferred that his generals 'understand' what he wanted. He probably wished to avoid going down in history as the 'great expeller' and he did not want his government to be blamed for a morally questionable policy.}}</ref>

{{cquote|From April 1948, Ben-Gurion is projecting a message of transfer. There is no explicit order of his in writing, there is no orderly comprehensive policy, but there is an atmosphere of [population] transfer. The transfer idea is in the air. The entire leadership understands that this is the idea. The officer corps understands what is required of them. Under Ben-Gurion, a consensus of transfer is created.<ref name = "Morris-20080108">{{Cite web |url=http://www.logosjournal.com/morris.htm |title=Morris in an interview with ''Haaretz'', 8 January 2004 |access-date=20 July 2007 |archive-date=4 April 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040404115018/http://www.logosjournal.com/morris.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>}}