CameronPoe wrote:
Karbin wrote:
, Yosef Weitz wrote in October 1948: "The migration of the Arabs from the Land of Israel was not caused by persecution, violence, expulsion [but was] deliberately organised by the Arab leaders in order to arouse Arab feelings of revenge, to artificially create an Arab refugee problem." Israeli historian Efraim Karsh wrote, "The logic behind this policy was apparently that 'the absence of women and children from Palestine would free the men for fighting', as the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Abd al-Rahman Azzam put it." In his book, The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Palestine War 1948, Karsh cited the substantial, active role the Arab Higher Committee played in the exoduses from Haifa, Tiberias, and Jaffa as an important part of understanding what he called the "birth of the Palestinian refugee problem."
Oh that's ok. So people flee an oncoming army that dispossesses them of all they own and know and that's ok? lol.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Yassin_massacre
Former Prime Minister of Syria Khalid al-Azm recalled in his memoirs:
Since 1948 it is we who demanded the return of the refugees to their country, while it is we who made them leave it.
We brought disaster upon one million Arab refugees, by inviting them and bringing pressure to bear upon them to leave their land, their homes, their work and their industry. We have rendered them dispossessed, unemployed, whilst every one of them had work or a trade by which he could gain his livelihood.
The point is that they were TOLD to leave by their leadership. The Israeli forces pushed this along.
BOTH sides are responsible, BOTH sides have to own up to it. BOTH sides refuse to, and cling to their storys that the other side is responsible.
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