‎"Almost entirely based on declassified Israeli archival material, Dr. ‎ Masalha's sober and carefully researched account shows ‎ conclusively that "transfer" - a euphemism for expulsion -- was ‎ from the start an integral part of Zionism...(an) impressive and ‎ timely book...quietly devastating research." Rt. Hon. Lord Gilmour, The Guardian (London) From the beginning of the Zionist enterprise to found a Jewish ‎ national home, or state, in Palestine, Zionists have been ‎ confronted with what was called the "Arab problem" - the fact that ‎ the "Land of Israel" was already populated. ‎ In this meticulous work, Nur Masalha examines one of the ‎ proposed solutions to that problem - the transfer of the indigenous ‎ Palestinian population to neighboring Arab lands. The result of ‎ Masalha's research is the most comprehensive study to date on ‎ the concept of transfer in Zionist thinking from the late nineteenth ‎ century up to the 1948 war. It documents the extent to which ‎ transfer was embraced by the highest levels of leadership, ‎ including virtually all the Founding Fathers of the Israeli state. ‎ Expulsion of the Palestinians is invaluable for the light it throws on ‎ the attitudes towards the Palestinians of the political and military ‎ decision-makers on the eve of the exodus of some 750,000 ‎ Palestinians. ‎ About the Author: ‎ Nur Masalha is a graduate of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem ‎ and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University ‎ of London. He has taught at both, as well as at the University of ‎ Bristol in England.‎