The Palestinians could wind up being expelled from their homes, Israel’s tourism minister warned. If the Palestinians start a war against Israel and then lose, “it will cost them — and the price will be expulsion,” Binyamin Elon, a member of the hawkish National Unity Party, told Israel’s Army Radio on Wednesday.
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