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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (114351)	9/10/2003 12:11:55 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Noel, do you even know enough of the history to know how twisted and biased this is? If there was a policy to drive out the Arabs, why did so many leave before the war? The inhabitants of Haifa weren't driven out (indeed, the Jews urged them to stay), but they borrowed trucks from the British and evacuated in an orderly fashion before the fighting even started. Every Palestinian Arab with money left after the partition vote in November and before the fighting. The remeaning Arabs were completely disorganized, and relied on the promised Arab armies to bail them out - and the Arab High Command advised getting out of the way of the Arab victory. The remaining poor were panicked when the promised Arab victory failed to materialize and they started hearing about Deir Yassin, suitably exaggerated, instead. And of course, the question remains why all the Arabs weren't driven out, if there was a policy. You don't see millions of Jews remaining in the Arab countries, do you?