Gad Machnes (politician)

Gad Machnes is an orientalist in the Arab Affairs Department at the Jewish Agency as part of the Palestine Jewish Yishuv during the British Mandate of Palestine. Machnes was Member of the third transformation of the Israeli 'Transfer committee' from August 1948 renamed as the Committee for Arab affairs along with Yosef Weitz, Ezra Danin, Yaacov Shimoni and Zalman Lifshiz.[1] Became the Israeli Minority Affairs Ministry director general, Tel Aviv, in 1949.[2][3] The Village files are still 'censored'.[4][5][6] Benei Binyamin, Petah Tikva, Hanotea, Netanya.[7] Machnes was intimately involved with the Israeli government regularisation of the systematic appropriation of 'Abandoned Arab property' and 'Transfer policy' of the Yishuv.[8][9] Machnes was one of David Ben-Gurion's most Hawkish advisers during the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and the following 1948 Arab–Israeli War.[10]

Machnes has a street named after him in Netanya. .[11]

footnotes

  1. ^ Pappé, Ilan, (reprint 2007) ibid pp 211-213
  2. ^ Black, Ian Contributor Morris, Benny (1991) Israel's Secret Wars: A History of Israel's Intelligence Services Grove Weidenfeld, ISBN 0802132863 p 537
  3. ^ Pappé, Ilan, (reprint 2007) The ethnic cleansing of Palestine, Oneworld Publications Limited, ISBN 978-1-85168-467-0 p 63
  4. ^ Rotberg, Robert I. (2006) Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict: History's Double Helix Indiana University Press, ISBN 0253218578 p 98
  5. ^ Morris, Benny, (second edition 2004 third printing 2006) The Birth Of The Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-00967-7 pp 83-84
  6. ^ Pappé, Ilan (Revised 1994) The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1947-1951 I B Tauris ISBN 1-85043-819-6 p 82
  7. ^ Karlinsky, Nahum (2005) California Dreaming: Ideology, Society, and Technology in the Citrus Industry of Palestine, 1890-1939 Translated by Naftali Greenwood, SUNY Press, ISBN 0791465276 p 76
  8. ^ Gelber, Yoav (2006) Palestine 1948: War, Escape and the Emergence of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Sussex Academic Press, ISBN 1845190750 pp 274-275
  9. ^ Pappé, Ilan, (reprint 2007) The ethnic cleansing of Palestine, Oneworld Publications Limited, ISBN 978-1-85168-467-0 p 63
  10. ^ Lucas, Noah (1995) Israel: The First Decade of Independence Contributor Selwyn Ilan Troen SUNY Press, ISBN 0791422593 p 645
  11. ^ Amelie Cherlin, Inc. Let's Go, Let's Go, Inc., Risha Kim Lee, Janet Evanovich (2002) Let's Go 2003: Israel: Israel Macmillan, ISBN 031230580X p 212