Talk:Masada (kibbutz)

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I cannot figure out the logic in categorizing every piece of land or settlement in Israel as "depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war". In the case of this, and many settlements, settlers founded a kibbutz wel or town well before the 1948 conflict, i.e., there was no population to depopulate during the 1948 conflict. It is logical where a population has been shown to have fled or evacuated a location, but totally illogical and unacceptable to use this categorization where there was no depopulation. Therefore, I have removed this label from the page for Masada (Kibbutz), where the tower and Stockade settlement had been established more than a decade prior to the cited conflict. - this cannot apply as kibbutz Masada was established years prior to the conflict.StevenBirnam 15:48, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You may be interested to see the discussion about this category here: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2008_January_7#Category:Villages_depopulated_during_the_Arab-Israeli_conflict. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 21:57, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]