Zionism has always been a project for ethnic cleansing. For example, Herzl wanted to remove most people from any land they took:

“We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country… expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.” — Theodor Herzl, 1895

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