Original sentence: ' In a study published in 1988 and revisited in 2003, Benny Morris studied the events that lead to the Palestinian exodus.According to Morris Shabtai Teveth and Anita Shapira 'argued that the Zionist leadership - including Ben-Gurion - had never supported the idea of transfer and had never taken the idea seriously, and that, therefore, there was no connection between the occasional propagation of the idea in the 1930s and 1940s and what happened to the Palestinians in 1947-1949'..  Ilan Pappé goes further and says the exodus was planned in early 1948 by a group he calls the ‘Consultancy’ and led by Ben-Gurion.Among the different causes, he suggests that Ben Gurion could have played a major role in ordering expulsions starting in July 1948.In an interview with Ha'aretz in 2003, he affirmed that Ben Gurion had probably ordered the expulsion of Palestinians from Lydda and from villages attacked during Operation Hiram in October 1948
Edited sentence: According to Morris Shabtai Teveth and Anita Shapira 'argued that the Zionist leadership - including Ben-Gurion - had never supported the idea of transfer and had never taken the idea seriously, and that, therefore, there was no connection between the occasional propagation of the idea in the 1930s and 1940s and what happened to the Palestinians in 1947-1949'...Among the different causes, he suggests Ben Gurion could have played a major role in ordering expulsions starting in July 1948.Ilan Pappé goes further and says the exodus was planned in early 1948 by a group he calls the ‘Consultancy’ and led by Ben-Gurion.In a study published in 1988 and revisited in 2003, Benny Morris studied the events that lead to the Palestinian exodus.In an interview with Ha'aretz in 2003, he went further and affirmed Ben Gurion had ordered the expulsion of Palestinians from Lydda and from villages attacked during Operation Hiram in October 1948