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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve kammerer who wrote (3927)	11/20/2003 6:07:09 PM
From: Machaon	Respond to of 22250

MYTH : "The Jews created the refugee problem by expelling the Palestinians." FACT : "Had the Arabs accepted the 1947 UN resolution, not a single Palestinian would have become a refugee. An independent Arab state would now exist beside Israel. The responsibility for the refugee problem rests with the Arabs. The beginning of the Arab exodus can be traced to the weeks immediately following the announcement of the UN partition resolution. The first to leave were roughly 30,000 wealthy Arabs who anticipated the upcoming war and fled to neighboring Arab countries to await its end. Less affluent Arabs from the mixed cities of Palestine moved to all-Arab towns to stay with relatives or friends. By the end of January1948, the exodus was so alarming the Palestine Arab Higher Committee asked neighboring Arab countries to refuse visas to these refugees and to seal their borders against them. On January 30, 1948, the Jaffa newspaper, Ash Sha'ab, reported: "The first of our fifth-column consists of those who abandon their houses and businesses and go to live elsewhere....At the first signs of trouble they take to their heels to escape sharing the burden of struggle." Another Jaffa paper, As Sarih (March 30, 1948) excoriated Arab villagers near Tel Aviv for "bringing down disgrace on us all by 'abandoning the villages.'" Meanwhile, a leader of the Arab National Committee in Haifa, Hajj Nimer el-Khatib, said Arab soldiers in Jaffa were mistreating the residents. "They robbed individuals and homes. Life was of little value, and the honor of women was defiled. This state of affairs led many [Arab] residents to leave the city under the protection of British tanks." John Bagot Glubb, the commander of Jordan's Arab Legion, said: "Villages were frequently abandoned even before they were threatened by the progress of war." Contemporary press reports of major battles in which large numbers of Arabs fled conspicuously fail to mention any forcible expulsion by the Jewish forces. The Arabs are usually described as "fleeing" or "evacuating" their homes. While Zionists are accused of "expelling and dispossessing" the Arab inhabitants of such towns as Tiberias and Haifa, the truth is much different. Both of those cities were within the boundaries of the Jewish State under the UN partition scheme and both were fought for by Jews and Arabs alike. Jewish forces seized Tiberias on April 19, 1948, and the entire Arab population of 6,000 was evacuated under British military supervision. The Jewish Community Council issued a statement afterward: "We did not dispossess them; they themselves chose this course....Let no citizen touch their property." In early April, an estimated 25,000 Arabs left the Haifa area following an offensive by the irregular forces led by Fawzi al-Qawukji, and rumors that Arab air forces would soon bomb the Jewish areas around Mt. Carmel. On April 23, the Haganah captured Haifa. A British police report from Haifa, dated April 26, explained that "every effort is being made by the Jews to persuade the Arab populace to stay and carry on with their normal lives, to get their shops and businesses open and to be assured that their lives and interests will be safe." In fact, David Ben-Gurion had sent Golda Meir to Haifa to try to persuade the Arabs to stay, but she was unable to convince them because of their fear of being judged traitors to the Arab cause. By the end of the battle, more than 50,000 Palestinians had left. To read the rest of the article: us-israel.org

To: steve kammerer who wrote (3927)	12/10/2003 3:49:44 AM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 22250

The hatred for all the Arabs is focused on the Palestinians who never had tanks or air planes. They were civilians that the Likud wanted removed because "they bred too fast like locusts". They were NOT the hman beings involved in 1967, 1972 or 1948 wars. They were inhabitants who have now been converted into animals while living in the ghettos Then why don't these enlightened folks over in Hezbullah & Syria , take the time & effort focussed on producing a docu-film on their (Palestinian) plight and present circumstances ? Show that around the world.... Instead of this 30 part hate-series Al-Shatat against the Jews , broadcasted just recently all over I linked you too? It seems that would be the way to truely generate sympathy and understanding of the Palestinian plight . If they really-----> cared , all that much.... about their Palestinian "brothers " ....that is ???<G> Truth is , they use the Palestinians for their own hate agendas and would rather see them suffer , but would rather not have to house them themselves or put them up at the same time... But Syria is a pretty useless parasitic non-productive pathetic excuse for a country to begin and end with ... truth is funny isn't it ? regards Mars