Historical analogy

On June 15 1948, , Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett was quoted as saying, "‘The most spectacular event in the contemporary history of Palestine - more spectacular in a sense than the creation of the Jewish state - is the wholesale evacuation of its Arab population...The reversion to the status quo ante is unthinkable’" (Quoted by Keith Kyle, Suez, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991).