Nakba Quote Of The Day: Yitzhak Rabin

"The residents of Lod must be expelled quickly, without classifying them according to age ... implement immediately."

-- Order from Lieutenant Colonel Yitzhak Rabin, operations chief for the Israeli attack on the Palestinian city of Lydda/Lod in 1948 (and later Israeli Chief of Staff and then Prime Minister), to the headquarters of the Yiftah Brigade, 12 July, 1948.

Paintings: The Exodus (1953) and A Drop of Water (1953) by Ismail Shammout, Palestinian artist and refugee, one of the almost 40,000 Palestinians expelled from Lydda/Lod and its twin city Ramla in July 1948 on the orders of Yitzhak Rabin.