Modern Use
Meron Benvenisti used the village files in his 2002 book "Sacred Landscape: Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948", as an example showing the level of detail on one Palestinian village; Abu Zurayq.
Walid Khalidi used 'village files' as a source for his book : 'All That Remains : The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated in 1948'. In 'Fabricating Israeli History', Efraim Karsh reports critique made towards Walid Khalidi who referred to these sources without having accessed them directly, but through a secondary source 'Village Statistics - 1945' which he considers is "of doubtful reliability".
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