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in the Sunday Times (London) on 11 October 1970, where reference is made not only to the villages of Jalou, Beit Nuba, and Imwas, also referred to by the
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but only "in the presence of journalists and TV cameras โ otherwise I am not interested". Husseini was not interested under such terms, therefore
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claimed the destruction was carried out under the orders of an officer who wished to expel the residents; Brigadier
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Cathedra: For the History of Eretz Israel and Its Yishuv
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