Why did the Palestinians leave – 1948 War

I second this!!!!!!!!!

 

It's just the lame tactic of repeating a big lie over and over and over again..

The expulsions where largely for military reasons, like not leaving populations of partisans on your rear and across supply lines and lines of retreat, which of course is not at all unreasonable.

Objectively, they have no case; they're racist, genocidal bigots.

For the same reasons they never mention the 700,000 Jewish refugees from other Arab countries, some 300,000 of which had no where to go but Palestine and the U.S. for the most part; they know they're racist, genocidal bigots, and have no valid responses to reasonable questions.

They're racist, genocidal bigots.

 

I wonder which will end first, this conflict, or this thread.

 

Yeah, I read that the Arabs thought the 1948 war was going to be short and sweet. They urged the Arab residents to vacate their homes temporarily until the Jews were driven into the sea at which point they could move back.

Unfortunately for them the Jews won.

 

MYTH ALERT!!! MYTH ALERT!!! MYTH ALERT!!!

That is just SUCH a jaded and dog-eared Zionist Myth.

I really am surprised to see it offered up again. It was disproved by Childers and Khalidi as far back as 1961 in the "Spectator Correspondence" - see here [http://palestine-studies.org/enakba/exodus/Erskine Childers, Walid Khalidi, Jon Kimche, et al.pdf]

 

PK here is a document which will fortify and illustrate your above response.

A collection of historical quotations relating to the Arab refugees:

~Collected ~by Moshe Kohn

ON APRIL 23, 1948 Jamal Husseini, acting chairman of the Palestine Arab Higher Committee (AHC), told the UN Security Council: "The Arabs did not want to submit to a truce ... They preferred to abandon their homes, belongings and everything they possessed."

ON SEPTEMBER 6, 1948, the Beirut Daily Telegraph quoted Emil Ghory, secretary of the AHC, as saying: "The fact that there are those refugees is the direct consequence of the action of the Arab states in opposing partition and the Jewish state. The Arab states agreed upon this policy unanimously..."

ON OCTOBER 2, 1948, the London Economist reported, in an eyewitness account of the flight of Haifa's Arabs: "There is little doubt that the most potent of the factors [in the flight] were the announcements made over the air by the Arab Higher Executive urging all Arabs in Haifa to quit ... And it was clearly intimated that those Arabs who remained in Haifa and accepted Jewish protection would be regarded as renegades."

On February 19, 1949, THE JORDANIAN daily Falastin wrote : "The Arab states... encouraged the Palestinian Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies."

ON JUNE 8, 1951, Habib Issa, secretary-general of the Arab League, wrote in the New York Lebanese daily al-Hoda that in 1948, Azzam Pasha, then League secretary, had "assured the Arab peoples that the occupation of Palestine and of Tel Aviv would be as simple as a military promenade ... Brotherly advice was given to the Arabs of Palestine to leave their land, homes and property, and to stay temporarily in neighboring fraternal states."

ON APRIL 9, 1953, the Jordanian daily al-Urdun quoted a refugee, Yunes Ahmed Assad, formerly of Deir Yassin, as saying: "For the flight and fall of the other villages, it is our leaders who are responsible, because of the dissemination of rumors exaggerating Jewish crimes and describing them as atrocities in order to inflame the Arabs ... they instilled fear and terror into the hearts of the Arabs of Palestine until they fled, leaving their homes and property to the enemy."

ANOTHER refugee told the Jordanian daily a-Difaa on September 6, 1954: "The Arab governments told us, 'Get out so that we can get in.' So we got out, but they did not get in."

THE PRIME Minister of Syria in 1948, Khaled al-Azem, in his memoirs, published in 1973, listed what he thought were the reasons for the Arab failure in 1948: " ... the fifth factor was the call by the Arab governments to the inhabitants of Palestine to evacuate it and leave for the bordering Arab countries ... We brought destruction upon a million Arab refugees by calling on them and pleading with them to leave their land."

"FOLLOWING a visit to refugees in Gaza, a British diplomat reported the following: 'But while they express no bitterness against the Jews...they speak with the utmost bitterness of the Egyptians and other Arab states: 'We know who our enemies are,' they will say, and they are referring to their Arab brothers who, they declare, persuaded them unnecessarily to leave their homes." -

IN THE MARCH 1976 issue of Falastin a-Thaura, then the official journal of the Beirut-based PLO, Mahmud Abbas ("Abu Mazen"), PLO spokesman, wrote: "The Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny but, instead, they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate and to leave their homeland, and threw them into prisons similar to the ghettos in which the Jews used to live."

British Foreign Office Document #371/75342/XC/A/4991 [From "Revising or Devising Israel's History" by Prof. Shlomo Slonim in Jewish Action, Summer 5760/2000, Vol. 60 #4]

This page was produced by Joseph E. Katz
Middle Eastern Political and Religious History Analyst
Brooklyn, New York

 

What a load of Keich!

But I'm glad you have pointed out the Palestinians left, Mmmmmmm does this mean the Palestinians left Palestine?



So it wasn't Israel, was it! It was Palestine!

You have to dig deep and remember all the lies your Nazi degenerate Zionist thugs spout, or all your dogma and bigotry is lost!

Oooh thats right ....... I'm anti Semitic now, aye the truth always hurt when one is found out!

False premise...... bollocks, not everyone is stupid as to believe you're AIPAC gutter press, their lies and deceit!

Highlander

 

Palestinians rarely owned the land they lived on. They should have moved elsewhere in the Arab world.