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"Morris in 2016 rejected the description of 'ethnic cleansing' for 1948, while also stating that the label of 'partial ethnic cleansing" for 1948 was debatable.
"In 2004 Morris was responding to the claim of 'ethnic cleansing' occurring in 1948 by stating that, given the alternative was 'genocide - the annihilation of your people,' there were 'circumstances in history that justify ethnic cleansing ... It was necessary to cleanse the hinterland ... ['cleanse' was] the term they used at the time ... there was no choice but to expel the Palestinian population To uproot it in the course of war'. Morris said this resulted in a 'partial' expulsion of Arabs."