| "Only the Arab refugees from Palestine were never resettled, quite deliberately." Perhaps so, nonetheless, after 1948-49, there were 391,000 Arabs displaced, according to C. Hitchens' source :IDF report entitled The Emigration of the Arabs of Palestine in the Period 1/12/1947 - 1/6/1948.,... he quotes the report "At least 55 per cent of the total of the exodus was caused by our (israel) operations and their influence," while the Irgun and Stern groups "directly caused some 15 per cent ... of the emigration." Hitchens writing about the IDF report says, "Among other causes of Palestinian flight, according to the report, were 'Jewish whispering operations aimed at frightening away Arab inhabitants' and 'ultimate expulsion orders' by the army and the Haganah." Why at the end of hostilities did these people lose the right to return home. I don't know why, but in any case they were stripped of that right. Are you saying no Arabs were forcibly removed from Israel. I read conflicting numbers for people who left willingly and those who didn't. I read some stuff by A. Koestler years ago, and he was a witness, and he described forcible removal of arabs. I don't have the book anymore. If what I am saying is true, and I was an arab and believed it, I'd hate to keep coming up against that argument, hey guy you left, so go f-off. Yes, I left, but I'd like to come back home. And then hear arguments like you know, you have no historic right to live here... |
