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To: KyrosL who wrote (8287)	10/31/2001 1:14:40 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) of 281500

British researcher Erskine Childers wrote: "The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) monitored all Middle Eastern broadcasts throughout 1948. The records, and companion ones by a United States monitoring unit, can be seen at the British Museum. There was not a single order or appeal, or suggestion about evacuation from Palestine, from any Arab radio station, inside or outside Palestine, in 1948. There is a repeated monitored record of Arab appeals, even flat orders, to the civilians of Palestine to stay put." (from Sami Hadawi's "Bitter Harvest") Israeli historian Simha Flapan wrote: "The recent publication of thousands of documents in the state and Zionist archives, as well as Ben-Gurion's war diaries, shows that there is no evidence to support Israeli claims that Arab leaders ordered the Palestinians to flee. In fact, the declassified material contradicts the 'order' theory, for among those new sources are documents testifying to the considerable efforts of the Arab Higher Committee and the Arab states constrain the flight." Tom

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