peaceful ethnic cleansing

From James: "Peaceful ethnic cleansing: “Some readers may find it hard, as I did, to read Shapira’s brief treatment of the moment in 1948 when the commanders Yigal Allon and Yitzhak Rabin came to Ben-Gurion asking whether to carry out ‘a large-scale population evacuation.’ Rabin reported that Ben-Gurion responded with a wave of the hand, saying ‘Expel them.’ . . . Despite this, Ben-Gurion firmly believed peace was more important than territory: What he wanted was not more land but the ability to maintain an overwhelming Jewish majority in the land he had.”"