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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: c.hinton who wrote (246420)10/24/2007 2:12:20 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (4) of 281500
 
By mid-May 4000 Arabs remained in Haifa. These were concentrated in Wadi Nisnas in accordance with Plan D whilst the systematic destruction of Arab housing in certain areas, which had been planned before the War, was implemented by Haifa's Technical and Urban Development departments in cooperation with the IDF's city ..............



This is horsepucky. The Arabs of Haifa borrowed trucks from the Brits and evacuated themselves despite being told by Ben Gurion and Golda Meir that they had nothing to fear from the Haganah. They said they had to go anyway. It was very orderly. The Arab High Command was making it clear in the early months of 1948 that those Arabs found sitting next to the Jews would be regarded as renegades when they rolled in driving the Jews into the sea. They advised getting out of the way and returning once the Jews were gone.
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