An 'alleged' ethnic cleansing? -- The drive for an exclusively Jewish state -- Partition and destruction: UN Resolution 181 and its impact -- Finalising a master plan -- The blueprint for ethnic cleansing: plan Dalet -- The phony war and the real war over Palestine: May 1948 -- The escalation of the cleansing operations: June-September 1948 -- Completing the job: October 1948-January 1949 -- Occupation and its ugly faces -- The memoricide of the Nakba -- Nakba denial and the 'peace process' -- Fortress Israel.