Media Point
The creation of the state of Israel – as is now being revealed by Israeli historians such as Benny Morris – required a deliberate strategy to rid the land of as many of its indigenous population as possible, through a process of violence and terror.

Counterpoint
Benny Morris: "There was no Zionist "plan" or blanket policy of evicting the Arab population, or of "ethnic cleansing". Plan Dalet (Plan D), of March 10th, 1948 (it is open and available for all to read in the IDF Archive and in various publications), was the master plan of the Haganah - the Jewish military force that became the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) - to counter the expected pan-Arab assault on the emergent Jewish state. That's what it explicitly states and that's what it was."