YKohen
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I see that they did not get driven our of the homes by lawyers, dude, what do you see?
I see that they got their asses handed to them by people with weapons.
So was it law or was it POWER that made them pay that price?
1. All they had to do was say "yes" instead of choosing war. THEY chose war- not the Jews.
2. They weren't "driven from their homes", dude:
The mass evacuation, prompted partly by fear, partly by order of Arab leaders, left the Arab quarter of Haifa a ghost city.... By withdrawing Arab workers their leaders hoped to paralyze Haifa."
- Time Magazine, May 3, 1948, page 25
"[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
"Israelis argue that the Arab states encouraged the Palestinians to flee. And, in fact, Arabs still living in Israel recall being urged to evacuate Haifa by Arab military commanders who wanted to bomb the city."
- Newsweek, January 20, 1963
The Arab states do not want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it as an open sore, as an affront to the United Nations, and as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders do not give a damn whether Arab refugees live or die.
- Ralph Galloway, Director of UNRWA, 1958
Even Muammar Qaddafi admitted it!
It is a fact that Palestinians inhabited the land and owned farms and homes there until recently, fleeing in fear of violence at the hands of Jews after 1948 - violence that did not occur, but rumors of which led to a mass exodus. It is important to note that the Jews did not forcibly expel Palestinians
The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia
If you want more, just ask.
Who WAS driven from their homes? Every single Jew in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza- and half of Jerusalem.
By the Arabs.
Yes they did have a choice.
They could go along with what the people with superior firep[ower told them or they could fight.
They choose to fight and they lost.
They could have chosen to accept UN 181 like the Jews did and get a state like the Jews did, or they could choose to fight. They chose to fight.
That was their choice.
The law had everything to do with it. They chose weapons INSTEAD OF the law, war INSTEAD OF a state.The LAW had nothing to do with it.
International law is meaningless without weapons backing it up.
That was their choice.