The 1948 massacres aimed at demographic, not physical, elimination.

Evidence

The many massacres of Palestinians by the Jewish forces during the 1948 War did not aim at physical extermination but rather at demographic elimination. They were enacted strategically to terrorize the native Palestinians into leaving their towns and their country. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 467

Categorization

• QUESTION: Distinguishes demographic from physical elimination — worth chasing how this causal logic (terrorizing flight) functions as strategic violence versus genocide in scholarship.
• XREF: connects to: Ordinary genocide aims at community destruction, not total annihilation. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 343

Broader Connections

• Ordinary genocide aims at community destruction, not total annihilation. #expands (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 343