Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 41 No. 21. August 28 1978

Zionist Terrorism

Zionist Terrorism

This brought Carson to the fourth mandate the Zionists use, that the Palestinians left. "It is not suprising that they left in view of the amount of terrorist activity directed against them." He detailed, as an example of this terrorist activity the massacre at Dier Yasin, for which the Israeli Prime Minister, Menachem Begin was responsible. "The Zionist leaders of the time believed that immediate preventive war against the Arabs was necessary".

One argument often put up for the Arabs leaving was that there were repeated requests from the Arab leaders for their people to leave Israel broadcast over the radio. Carson stated that the British army, which had monitored all broadcasts in Palestine at the time, had no evidence to back the Zionist claim. "There is no primary evidence that the Arabs left of their own free will. There is no reason why they should."