Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction to revised edition -- ENDNOTES -- 1 Background: a brief history -- PALESTINIAN JEWISH SOCIETY -- MILITARY PREPARATION -- PALESTINIAN ARAB SOCIETY -- MILITARY PREPARATIONS -- THE ARAB WORLD -- ENDNOTES -- 2 The idea of 'transfer' in Zionist thinking before 1948 -- ENDNOTES -- 3 The first wave: the Arab exodus, December 1947 - March 1948 -- YISHUV POLICY, DECEMBER 1947 - MARCH 1948 -- PALESTINIAN ARAB POLICY DURING NOVEMBER 1947 - MARCH 1948 -- JEWISH AND ARAB PEACE-MAKING EFFORTS, DECEMBER 1947 TO MARCH 1948 -- THE FIRST STAGE OF THE EXODUS: DECEMBER 1947 - MARCH 1948 -- The cities -- Haifa -- Jaffa -- Jerusalem -- THE BEGINNING OF THE EXODUS OF THE ARAB RURAL POPULATION, DECEMBER 1947 - MARCH 1948 -- The Coastal Plain -- FLIGHT FROM OTHER RURAL COMMUNITIES, DECEMBER 1947 - MARCH 1948 -- THE ARAB AUTHORITIES' RESPONSES TO THE EXODUS, DECEMBER 1947 - MARCH 1948 -- ENDNOTES -- 4 The second wave: the mass exodus, April-June 1948 -- THE CITIES -- Tiberias -- Haifa -- Jaffa -- THE SMALL TOWNS -- Safad -- Beisan (Beit Shean) -- Acre -- THE COUNTRYSIDE -- OPERATION NAHSHON -- THE BATTLE OF MISHMAR HA'EMEK -- THE BATTLE OF RAMAT YOHANAN -- THE COASTAL PLAIN -- OPERATION YIFTAH (MIVTZA YIFTAH) -- OPERATION BEN-'AMI (MIVTZA BEN-'AMI) -- THE SOUTH, APRIL-JUNE 1948 -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES -- 5 Deciding against a return of the refugees, April-December 1948 -- ENDNOTES -- 6 Blocking a return -- THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ARAB VILLAGES -- TAKEOVER AND ALLOCATION OF ABANDONED LANDS, 1948-1949 -- ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW SETTLEMENTS, 1948-1949 -- ABSORPTION AND SETTLEMENT OF NEW IMMIGRANTS, 1948 - EARLY 1949 -- ENDNOTES -- 7 The third wave: the Ten Days (9-18 July) and the Second Truce (18 July-15 October) -- THE NORTH -- THE CENTRE.

THE SOUTH -- OPERATIONS DURING THE SECOND TRUCE, JULY-OCTOBER 1948 -- ENDNOTES -- 8 The fourth wave: the battles and exodus of October-November 1948 -- THE SOUTH -- THE NORTH -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES -- 9 Clearing the borders: expulsions and population transfers, November 1948-1950 -- THE NORTH -- THE SOUTH -- THE CENTRE -- ENDNOTES -- 10 Solving the refugee problem, December 1948 - September 1949 -- THE PALESTINE CONCILIATION COMMISSION AND LAUSANNE I: STALEMATE -- THE GAZA PLAN INTERLUDE -- THE PCC AND LAUSANNE II: THE '100,000 OFFER' AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE TALKS -- ENDNOTES -- Conclusion -- ENDNOTES -- Appendix I -- THE NUMBER OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES -- ENDNOTES -- Appendix II -- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES -- Bibliography -- PRIMARY SOURCES -- INTERVIEWS -- PUBLISHED PRIMARY SOURCES -- SECONDARY WORKS -- Index.