In 1948, Arabs threatened Palestinians with violence if they didn't leave Israel before the attack

[Phoenall]

What are you unable to comprehend?

"Yosef Weitz, who was at the time director of the Jewish National Fund’s Lands Department. This man of noted Zionist convictions confided to his diary on 20 December 1940: “It must be clear that there is no room in the country for both people (...) the only solution is a Land of Israel, at least a western Land of Israel without Arabs. There is no room here for compromise. (...) There is no way but to transfer the Arabs from here to the neighbouring countries(...) Not one village must be left, not one (bedouin) tribe.”

Seven years later, Weitz found himself in a position to put this radical programme into effect. Already, in January 1948, he was orchestrating the expulsion of Palestinians from various parts of the country. In April he proposed - and obtained - the creation of “a body which would direct the Yishuv’s war with the aim of evicting as many Arabs as possible”. This body was unofficial at first, but was formalised at the end of August 1948 into the “Transfer Committee” which supervised the destruction of abandoned Arab villages and/or their repopulation with recent Jewish immigrants, in order to make any return of the refugees impossible. Its role was extended, in July, to take in the creation of Jewish settlements in the border areas."

The expulsion of the Palestinians re-examined - Le Monde diplomatique - English edition

Not a valid sourced of any material, its own Jean-Marie Colombani, former editor of the daily Le Monde, was attributed by Le Monde diplomatique's former director general Bernard Cassen as saying: "Le Monde diplomatique is a journal of opinion; Le Monde is a journal of opinions."

The Norwegian version of the July 2006 Le Monde diplomatique sparked interest when the editors ran, on their own initiative, a three page main story on the September 11, 2001 attacks and summarized the various types of 9/11 conspiracy theories (which were not specifically endorsed by the newspaper, only reviewed

The Voltaire Network, which has somehow changed position since the 11 September attacks and whose director, Thierry Meyssan, became a leading proponent of 9/11 conspiracy theory, explained that although the Norwegian version of Le Monde diplomatique had allowed it to translate and publish this article on its website, the mother-house, in France, categorically refused it this right, thus displaying an open debate between various national editions.

In December 2006, the French version published an article by Alexander Cockburn, co-editor of CounterPunch, which strongly criticized the endorsement of conspiracy theories by the US left-wing, alleging that it was a sign of "theoretical emptiness." [16] The Norwegian Le Monde diplomatique, did again however mark its difference from the mother edition by allowing David Ray Griffin's response to Cockburn to be published in their March 2007 issue.[

 

[Phoenall]

Man the Mufti of Jerusalem met wit Adolf Hitler before '48 and led pogroms in Jerusalem even before that.

Hebron massacre of 1929, and others before and after. They blame the Jews for having had enough and deciding to fight back. They weren't going to let Islamic Nazis murder them in their own holy land.

Hitler s Mufti Catholic Answers

This was described by al-Husseini in his own memoirs:

Our fundamental condition for cooperating with Germany was a free hand to eradicate every last Jew from Palestine and the Arab world. I asked Hitler for an explicit undertaking to allow us to solve the Jewish people in a manner befitting our national and racial aspirations and according to the scientific methods innovated by Germany in the handling of its Jews. The answer I got was: "The Jews are yours." (Ami Isseroff and Peter FitzGerald-Morris, "The Iraq Coup Attempt of 1941, the Mufti, and the Farhud")

Why do you find it unusual that an Palestinian leader would want to eliminate Europeans that, with the help of the British, were planning to colonize his home and eliminate or evict his people from their land?

So when will you produce a valid link to substantiate your NAZI JEW HATRED claims from before 1921 when the grand mufti started his plans to wipe out the Jews ?

 

[Phoenall]

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in 1970: "the Arab armies forced us to leave, and then threw us into prisons."

I am sure he said that. LOL You are getting desperate Ruddy. Now you are making up quotes or picking them up from the Hasbara library of fake quotes.

He did say and the valid source has been produced, your NAZI JEW HATRED is clouding your ability to think straight

 

[montelatici]

No valid source was provided.

 

[Roudy]

No valid source was provided.

Your source is a French leftist conspiracy theorist? Ha ha ha.

 

[Roudy]

Straight from the horse's mouth:

...in 1976, when he explicitly blamed the Arab World (and its “armies”) for forcing Palestinians to leave their homes:

“The Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny but, instead, they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate and to leave their homeland, and threw them into prisons similar to the ghettos in which the Jews used to live.” (Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, post-Holocaust America. Eric J. Sundquist. pp. 325)

 

[montelatici]

No valid source was provided.

Your source is a French leftist conspiracy theorist? Ha ha ha.

Actually the writers are Israelis, including Bennie Morris.

 

[Roudy]

No valid source was provided.

Your source is a French leftist conspiracy theorist? Ha ha ha.

Actually the writers are Israelis, including Bennie Morris.

Which makes you even more of a fuckin' liar. Because this is what Bennie Morris said:


Benny Morris, the historian who documented instances where Palestinians were expelled, also found that Arab leaders encouraged their brethren to leave. Starting in December 1947, he said, “Arab officers ordered the complete evacuation of specific villages in certain areas, lest their inhabitants ‘treacherously’ acquiesce in Israeli rule or hamper Arab military deployments.” He concluded, “There can be no exaggerating the importance of these early Arab-initiated evacuations in the demoralization, and eventual exodus, of the remaining rural and urban populations” (Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 590.)

So this proves that you again mutilated a document and then lied.

You truly are a piece of shit.

 

[teddyearp]

Actually the writers are Israelis, including Bennie Morris.

And actually Benny Morris' later material is some of the source material in Roudy's article. You guys do not even try to read the articles do you? You just pounce and do not even try to open your mind to the truth at all do you?

 

[teddyearp]

Now now Roudy, you know that everything we post from actual sources is nothing but lies, don't you? I mean, all the truth that is out there is all made up Zionist propaganda. The pro-pali's don't even read it. Obviously. Why you say can this be so? Because part of being pro-Palestinian is to believe that the whole world is being secretly run by the Zionist. Why, the Jews were behind 9/11, remember? Well, since everyone knows that that is truth, the actual truth is nothing but lies.

 

[Roudy]

Actually the writers are Israelis, including Bennie Morris.

And actually Benny Morris' later material is some of the source material in Roudy's article. You guys do not even try to read the articles do you? You just pounce and do not even try to open your mind to the truth at all do you?

Funny part is Monte takes a mutilated, misquoted and misrepresented document from Benny Morris as his so called "evidence from 'official documents'" and when I quote the same Benny Morris he tries to discredit him.

The guy is a total piece of shit Jew hater who just knows how to lie and spread false propaganda.

 

[teddyearp]

The guy is a total piece of shit Jew hater who just knows how to lie and spread false propaganda.

Quoted for truth.

 

[Billo_Really]

Here is a dose of truth:

Did Arab newspapers in 1948 threaten Palestinians with violence if they didn t leave Israel before the Arabs attacked - Quora

Did Arab newspapers in 1948 threaten Palestinians with violence if they didn't leave Israel before the Arabs attacked?
If so, have historians preserved some of these newspapers?

Fact

A plethora of evidence exists demonstrating that Palestinians were encouraged to leave their homes to make way for the invading Arab armies.

The Economist, a frequent critic of the Zionists, reported on October 2, 1948: “Of the 62,000 Arabs who formerly lived in Haifa not more than 5,000 or 6,000 remained. Various factors influenced their decision to seek safety in flight. There is but little doubt that the most potent of the factors were the announcements made over the air by the Higher Arab Executive, urging the Arabs to quit... It was clearly intimated that those Arabs who remained in Haifa and accepted Jewish protection would be regarded as renegades.”

Time’s report of the battle for Haifa (May 3, 1948) was similar: “The mass evacuation, prompted partly by fear, partly by orders of Arab leaders, left the Arab quarter of Haifa a ghost city... By withdrawing Arab workers their leaders hoped to paralyze Haifa.”

Benny Morris, the historian who documented instances where Palestinians were expelled, also found that Arab leaders encouraged their brethren to leave. Starting in December 1947, he said, “Arab officers ordered the complete evacuation of specific villages in certain areas, lest their inhabitants ‘treacherously’ acquiesce in Israeli rule or hamper Arab military deployments.” He concluded, “There can be no exaggerating the importance of these early Arab-initiated evacuations in the demoralization, and eventual exodus, of the remaining rural and urban populations” (Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 590.)

The Arab National Committee in Jerusalem, following the March 8, 1948, instructions of the Arab Higher Committee, ordered women, children and the elderly in various parts of Jerusalem to leave their homes: “Any opposition to this order... is an obstacle to the holy war... and will hamper the operations of the fighters in these districts.” The Arab Higher Committee also ordered the evacuation of “several dozen villages, as well as the removal of dependents from dozens more” in April-July 1948. “The invading Arab armies also occasionally ordered whole villages to depart, so as not to be in their way” (Middle Eastern Studies, January 1986; See also Morris, pp. 263 & 590-592).

Morris also said that in early May units of the Arab Legion ordered the evacuation of all women and children from the town of Beisan. The Arab Liberation Army was also reported to have ordered the evacuation of another village south of Haifa. The departure of the women and children, Morris says, “tended to sap the morale of the menfolk who were left behind to guard the homes and fields, contributing ultimately to the final evacuation of villages. Such two-tier evacuation — women and children first, the men following weeks later — occurred in Qumiya in the Jezreel Valley, among the Awarna bedouin in Haifa Bay and in various other places.”

In his memoirs, Haled al Azm, the Syrian Prime Minister in 1948-49, also admitted the Arab role in persuading the refugees to leave:

“Since 1948 we have been demanding the return of the refugees to their homes. But we ourselves are the ones who encouraged them to leave. Only a few months separated our call to them to leave and our appeal to the United Nations to resolve on their return” (The Memoirs of Haled al Azm, Beirut, 1973, Part 1, pp. 386-387).

Who gave such orders? Leaders like such as Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Said, who declared: “We will smash the country with our guns and obliterate every place the Jews seek shelter in. The Arabs should conduct their wives and children to safe areas until the fighting has died down” (Myron Kaufman, The Coming Destruction of Israel, NY: The American Library Inc., 1970, pp. 26-27).

The Secretary of the Arab League Office in London, Edward Atiyah, wrote in his book, The Arabs: “This wholesale exodus was due partly to the belief of the Arabs, encouraged by the boastings of an unrealistic Arabic press and the irresponsible utterances of some of the Arab leaders that it could be only a matter of weeks before the Jews were defeated by the armies of the Arab States and the Palestinian Arabs enabled to reenter and retake possession of their country” (Edward Atiyah, The Arabs, London: Penguin Books, 1955, p. 183).

“The refugees were confident their absence would not last long, and that they would return within a week or two,” Monsignor George Hakim, a Greek Orthodox Catholic Bishop of Galilee told the Beirut newspaper, Sada al-Janub (August 16, 1948). “Their leaders had promised them that the Arab Armies would crush the ’Zionist gangs’ very quickly and that there was no need for panic or fear of a long exile.”

On April 3, 1949, the Near East Broadcasting Station ( Cyprus ) said: “It must not be forgotten that the Arab Higher Committee encouraged the refugees’ flight from their homes in Jaffa, Haifa and Jerusalem” (Samuel Katz, Battleground-Fact and Fantasy in Palestine, NY: Bantam Books, 1985, p. 15).

“The Arab States encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies,” according to the Jordanian newspaper Filastin, (February 19, 1949).

One refugee quoted in the Jordan newspaper, Ad Difaa (September 6, 1954), said: “The Arab government told us: Get out so that we can get in. So we got out, but they did not get in.”

“The Secretary-General of the Arab League, Azzam Pasha, assured the Arab peoples that the occupation of Palestine and Tel Aviv would be as simple as a military promenade,” said Habib Issa in the New York Lebanese paper, Al Hoda (June 8, 1951). “He pointed out that they were already on the frontiers and that all the millions the Jews had spent on land and economic development would be easy booty, for it would be a simple matter to throw Jews into the Mediterranean... Brotherly advice was given to the Arabs of Palestine to leave their land, homes and property and to stay temporarily in neighboring fraternal states, lest the guns of the invading Arab armies mow them down.”

The Arabs’ fear was naturally exacerbated by stories of real and imagined Jewish atrocities following the attack on Deir Yassin. The native population lacked leaders who could calm them; their spokesmen, such as the Arab Higher Committee, were operating from the safety of neighboring states and did more to arouse their fears than to pacify them. Local military leaders were of little or no comfort. In one instance the commander of Arab troops in Safed went to Damascus. The following day, his troops withdrew from the town. When the residents realized they were defenseless, they fled in panic. “As Palestinian military power was swiftly and dramatically crushed, and the Haganah demonstrated almost unchallenged superiority in successive battles,” Benny Morris noted, “Arab morale cracked, giving way to general, blind, panic, or a ‘psychosis of flight,’ as one IDF intelligence report put it” (King Abdallah, My Memoirs Completed, (London: Longman Group, Ltd., 1978), p. xvi; Morris, p. 591).

According to Dr. Walid al-Qamhawi, a former member of the Executive Committee of the PLO, “it was collective fear, moral disintegration and chaos in every field that exiled the Arabs of Tiberias, Haifa and dozens of towns and villages” (Joseph Schechtman, The Refugee in the World, NY: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1963, p. 186).

As panic spread throughout Palestine, the early trickle of refugees became a flood, numbering more than 200,000 by the time the provisional government declared the independence of the State of Israel.

Even Jordan’s King Abdullah, writing in his memoirs, blamed Palestinian leaders for the refugee problem:

The tragedy of the Palestinians was that most of their leaders had paralyzed them with false and unsubstantiated promises that they were not alone; that 80 million Arabs and 400 million Muslims would instantly and miraculously come to their rescue (Yehoshofat Harkabi, Arab Attitudes To Israel, Jerusalem: Israel Universities Press, 1972, p. 364).

“The Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny but, instead, they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate and to leave their homeland, and threw them into prisons similar to the ghettos in which the Jews used to live.”

— Palestinian Authority (then) Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) (Falastin a-Thaura, (March 1976)


Arabs Urged to Flee from Palestine in 1948:

"It must not be forgotten that the Arab Higher Committee encouraged the refugees' flight from their homes in Jaffa, Haifa, and Jerusalem."
-- Near East Arabic Broadcasting Station, Cyprus, April 3, 1949

"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."
-- Haifa District HQ of the British Police, April 26, 1948, (quoted in Battleground by Samuel Katz).


"The Arabs of Haifa fled in spite of the fact that the Jewish authorities guaranteed their safety and rights as citizens of Israel."
-- Monsignor George Hakim, Greek Catholic Bishop of Galilee, New York Herald Tribune, June 30, 1949

Sir John Troutbeck, British Middle East Office in Cairo, noted in cables to superiors (1948-49) that the refugees (in Gaza) have no bitterness against Jews, but harbor intense hatred toward Egyptians: "They say 'we know who our enemies are (referring to the Egyptians)', declaring that their Arab brethren persuaded them unnecessarily to leave their homes…I even heard it said that many of the refugees would give a welcome to the Israelis if they were to come in and take the district over."

Roudy the Re-write is at it again with his big bullshit data dumps.

It's too bad official UN records say he's full of shit!

Charges that their flight had been incited by Arab leaders is refuted by a United Nations report noting that the refugees either fled from the war or were expelled:

"As a result of the conflict in Palestine, almost the whole of the Arab population fled or was expelled from the area under Jewish occupation".

But hey, try again, maybe your luck will change.

 

[abu afak]

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in 1970: "the Arab armies forced us to leave, and then threw us into prisons."

I am sure he said that. LOL You are getting desperate Ruddy. Now you are making up quotes or picking them up from the Hasbara library of fake quotes.

He actually did, it's not a fake quote. You keep failing.

“The Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny but, instead, they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate and to leave their homeland, and threw them into prisons similar to the ghettos in which the Jews used to live.”

— Palestinian Authority (then) Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) (Falastin a-Thaura, (March 1976)

He DID say it and here is a fuller quote and attribution I have used for 10 Years:
a JPG of that Falastin Al Thawra Article can be found here
Politics Lies and Videotape 3 000 Questions and Answers on the Mideast Crisis - Yitschak Ben Gad - Google Books
and since I assume Mont al-cito speaks Arabic...

"The Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny but, instead, THEY ABANDONED THEM, FORCED THEM TO EMIGRATE AND TO LEAVE THEIR HOMELAND, Imposed upon them a political and ideological blockade and Threw them into Prisons similar to the ghettos in which the Jews used to live in Eastern Europe, as if we were condemmed to change places with them; they moved out of their ghettos and we occupied similar ones. The ARAB States succeeded in scattering the Palestinian people and in destroying their unity. They did Not Recognize them as a unified people until the States of the world did so, and this is Regrettable".....

- by Abu Mazen, from the article titled: "What We Have Learned and What We Should Do", published in Falastin el Thawra, the official journal of the PLO, of Beirut, March 1976
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EDIT:
Note the Nonsensical Last-wording BS/nonrebuttal by Brillo_Squeally below
and also that Mont al-cito NEVER presents a debunking of the quote- cause he couldn't.
Now he really can't. As well: the quote clearly contains a sense of irony and bitterness only a palestinian could have.

 

[Billo_Really]

He DID say it and here is a fuller quote and attribution I have used for 10 Years:
(a JPG of that Falastin Al Thawra Article can be found here
Politics Lies and Videotape 3 000 Questions and Answers on the Mideast Crisis - Yitschak Ben Gad - Google Books
and since I assume you speak Arabic...

"The Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny but, instead, THEY ABANDONED THEM, FORCED THEM TO EMIGRATE AND TO LEAVE THEIR HOMELAND, Imposed upon them a political and ideological blockade and Threw them into Prisons similar to the ghettos in which the Jews used to live in Eastern Europe, as if we were condemmed to change places with them; they moved out of their ghettos and we occupied similar ones. The ARAB States succeeded in scattering the Palestinian people and in destroying their unity. They did Not Recognize them as a unified people until the States of the world did so, and this is Regrettable".....

- by Abu Mazen, from the article titled: "What We Have Learned and What We Should Do", published in Falastin el Thawra, the official journal of the PLO, of Beirut, March 1976
`

No one leaves a home they've been living in for generations, just because someone asked them to.

That is completely ridiculous!

 

[Roudy]

He DID say it and here is a fuller quote and attribution I have used for 10 Years:
(a JPG of that Falastin Al Thawra Article can be found here
Politics Lies and Videotape 3 000 Questions and Answers on the Mideast Crisis - Yitschak Ben Gad - Google Books
and since I assume you speak Arabic...

"The Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny but, instead, THEY ABANDONED THEM, FORCED THEM TO EMIGRATE AND TO LEAVE THEIR HOMELAND, Imposed upon them a political and ideological blockade and Threw them into Prisons similar to the ghettos in which the Jews used to live in Eastern Europe, as if we were condemmed to change places with them; they moved out of their ghettos and we occupied similar ones. The ARAB States succeeded in scattering the Palestinian people and in destroying their unity. They did Not Recognize them as a unified people until the States of the world did so, and this is Regrettable".....

- by Abu Mazen, from the article titled: "What We Have Learned and What We Should Do", published in Falastin el Thawra, the official journal of the PLO, of Beirut, March 1976
`

No one leaves a home they've been living in for generations, just because someone asked them to.

That is completely ridiculous!

The Arab armies threatened the Pelestinians to leave or else, because they were coming to drive the Jews into the sea. When they couldn't they put all the refugees they created into prisons and ghettos. And that's exactly what Abu Mazen the Palestinian leader said.

Gee, another dumbfuck goes down in flames.

 

[montelatici]

The Zionist myth again.

"The myth relating to the cause of the exodus of Palestinians, that the Arabs simply abandoned their homes, has been used by Zionists to justify their occupation of Palestinian land. These claims were repeated in Joan Peters 1984 book From Time Immemorial. Peters book received wide spread praise in the United States but was dismissed as "worthless" by leading academic experts in England. In Israel the arguments set out in the book were described as "sheer rubbish except may be as a propaganda weapon."

Howard M. Sachar, considered by many the leading Jewish historian on Israel wrote, in A History of Israel "no such order was ever found in any release of the Arab League or in any military communiques of the period. Rather, the evidence in the Arab press and radio of the time was to the contrary. By and large, except for towns like Haifa, already captured by the Jews, the Arab League ordered the Palestine Arabs to stay where they were, and stringent punitive measures were reported against Arab youth of military age who fled the country. Even Jewish broadcasts (in Hebrew) mentioned these Arab orders to remain" (at pp. 332-333).

Dr. Erskine Childers examined the records of the BBC which monitored "all Middle Eastern broadcasts throughout 1948." He found that "there was not a single order, or appeal or suggestion about evacuation from Palestine, in 1948. There is repeated monitored record of Arab appeals, even flat orders to stay put." ( The Israel-Arab Reader, Eds. Walter Laqueur and Barry Rubin, page 146).

Myer Levin in Jerusalem Embattled and Arthur Koestler in Promise and Fulfilment reported that dire warnings were issued to the Arabs if they did not leave. Koestler called the "blood-bath" of Deir Yassin (254 killed) "the psychologically decisive factor in this spectacular exodus." Berth Vester, a Christian missionary described how the massacre was exploited: "Unless you leave your homes the fate of Deir Yassin will be your fate." (David Gilmour, Dispossessed: The Ordeal of the Palestinians, page 69). Special UN mediator Count Bernadotte said shortly before his assassination by Zionist terrorists: "The exodus of Palestinian Arabs resulted from panic created by fighting in their communities, by rumours concerning real and alleged acts of terrorism or expulsion." ( UN Document A/648, 1948, page 14). Noam Chomsky, wrote that the massacre of 254 "defenceless" Palestinians by Menachem Begins Irgun at Deir Yassin on April 10, 1948 was "one major factor in causing the flight of much of the Arab population." (Noam Chomsky, The Fateful Triangle, 1984, p. 95.)

Rebuking a Zionist rabbi who alleged that there were Arab evacuation orders, Nathan Chofshi replied: "We old Jewish settlers in Palestine who witnessed the fight could tell him how and in what manner we, Jews, forced the Arabs to leave cities and villages...some of them were driven out by force of arms; others were made to leave by deceit, lying, and false promises." (Jewish Newsletter, New York, Feb 9,1959).

Yitzhak Rabin affirmed that Ben Gurion with respect to the Palestinian population of Lydda ordered, "Drive them out." (New York Times, Oct 23, 1979). Yigal Allon confirmed there was a Zionist campaign "to clean" the Galilee of Arabs. (David Hirst, Mideast Correspondent for The Guardian, The Gun and the Olive Branchpage 41). Allon later became an Israeli cabinet Minister and Rabin became Prime Minister of Israel.

Israeli journalist Yeshayahu Ben-Porth summarized the "central truth" of the Zionist movement: "There is no State without the evacuation of Arabs and without the expropriation and fencing of lands." (Joy Gonen, A Psychohistory of Zionism, page 196).

 

[Roudy]

Oh my. The slithering IslamoNazi snake now posts another irrelevant mutilated quote.

Palestinian leaders blamed the Arab armies for telling them to leave.

Case closed.

 

[montelatici]

The Jews evicted the Muslims and Christians. Case closed.

 

[Roudy]

No proof of that. But the Arab Muslims did commit genocide on the Jews and Christians of the region. That has been proven.