Yes, they were expelled.
This is obviously not an unbiased site but it also isn't a total fabrication -
jafi.org.il
There where cases where Arabs where expelled, and there where other cases where after losing battles with the Israelis the local Palestinians fled in fear, but as far as I can tell there was no mass expulsion. The Arabs that did remain where given citizenship and their rights where respected more then the rights of Arabs in any other nation in the area.
Of course the Israelis would say what they say in that link. Why admit you expelled anyone......if you did, you might have to pay for the property of the Palestinians you confiscated. BTW some Palestinians left because they thought the Arabs would make short shrift of Israel. Others left because they feared they would be slaughtered along with the Zionists. Either way, Israel would not let them back into the country after the war. They confiscated their property for Israel's monetary gain.
This fit right into the game plan of the Zionists prior to WW II. They saw the Palestinians as a problem because they [the Zionists] were vastly outnumbered. They came up with a number of ways to rid themselves of the Palestinians. Eventually, they were overruled by other Zionists and the Brits.
In any case, the 1948 war played right into their hands and even after the war was over, they continued to expelled the Arabs wherever possible as evidence by the link below. They got away with this garbage because of the Holocaust and the impact it had on European and American guilt.
<font color=blue>"Is there a name for an action that reduced the number of Palestinians within the historic bounderies of Palestine from 70 percent to under 50 percent? In 1948 more than 60 percent of the total Palestinian population was expelled. More than 530 Palestinian villages were depopulated and completely destroyed. Palestinian property spread over hundreds of Palestinian towns and villages, including homes, household effects, cash, heavy equipment, trucks and whole flocks of cattle, were plundered and looted. Israel confiscated and over four million acres of land, tens of thousands of homes, apartments, shops, factories and other facilities. Palestinians await compensation for these immense losses.
More than 37,000 Palestinians became internal refugees in 1948. Even after the cease fire in 1949, Israel continued to expel thousands of Palestinians, notably from the area north east of Tel Aviv known as the "little triangle," and in the south from Majdal to Faluja and Bir Saba, the Hebron region, and from the east and north of the Sea of Galilee. It even expelled those Palestinians it decided were "illegals." For example, in the Negev desert, between 1949 and 1953, Israel expelled close to 17,000 Bedouins.
To date, Israel has prevented the return of approximately six million Palestinian refugees, who have either been expelled or displaced. To date, approximately 250,000 internally displaced Palestinian second-class citizens of Israel are prevented from returning to their homes and villages. Israel has uprooted three-fourths of the Palestinian people from their land, making this the largest and one of the longest standing unresolved refugee cases in the world today. The majority of Palestinian refugees, those who live in the West Bank and Gaza and those who live within the bounderies of what became Israel, live within 100 miles of their places of origin but are denied their right to return to their homes and lands."<font color=black>
palestinemonitor.org
Why do you not answer the question but instead attempt to divert to another issue?
I am answering the question. Israel is attacked by Arabs, and if it ever became weaker (relative to the Arab states) it would be at risk of attack by the Arab states. Israel only has to lose one war for it to meet its end.
How can it ever lose another war armed to the teeth thanks to our largesse? And why are we still interceding on its behalf? After all, its a mature state that should be able to stand on its own two feet. Our continued intervention and support of Israel is slowing the process which would permit peace to develop in the region.
Most of the cards are in his hands and he refuses to deal. You do the math.
That doesn't make him the biggest threat to peace. It does mean that he isn't making a serious effort to establish peace.
There is no question. So long as he has Bush in his pocket, he will do squat.
None of the above justify spending $3 billion per year
We spend not to much less then that on Egypt.
Egypt is a country in dire poverty with a population of 70 million. Israel is a first world country with a population of 6 million. And yet, we spend more on Israel than Egypt.
Again, you do the math.
Just counting the reconstruction we will spend more in Iraq.
This is a joke that should not figure into this discussion.
We spend more billions in other countries. If you are against foreign aid or you think such aid should be slashed then you have a point (for those who agree that aid should be slashed). But $3bil is less then Americans spend per year on potato chips and less then half of what we spend on chocolate.
And yet you would oppose spending billions to feed America's poor. Again, I can only assume you argue the above from partisanship and not from ideology.
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