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To: c.hinton who wrote (246448)10/24/2007 3:38:40 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
nadine ,i am not sure those clippings are representative of what went on.

Lydda and Ramla are not representative of what went on either. They were special cases because they were precisely in the way of the major battle lines during the fighting. Read a history of the Israeli War of Independence, and check the geography.

It's a completely different case from the refugees of Jaffa and Haifa who were not driven out at all, but evacuated themselves in early 1948 in anticipation of the Arab High Command attack.



To: c.hinton who wrote (246448)10/24/2007 3:46:31 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
I doubt that there has ever been a war (other than skirmishes like Grenada) where those kinds of difficult decisions weren't made.

What would you have expected? And if the Arabs had succeeded in defeating the Jews after the UN partition plan, would you then have said how awful the Arabs were? Or would that have been simple justice?


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