Oh, look another budding Hasbarist regurgitates the long debunked Zionist myth-history and talking points.
Therefore one cannot use the word genocide when defining what the Muslims mean by Nakba.
Yes one can:
Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
(a)-(d) certainly apply to Zionist actions against the Palestinians
The Muslim Arab leaders and Jordanians as well, told many of theArabs to just leave and that they would be allowed to return once the five invading forces, aided by the British (who had been given the responsibility to create a Jewish State in Mandate Palestine, just as they were responsible for creating Iraq)
This has been debunked so many times, it's boring. Dr Erskine Childers researched this in 1961
"Examining every official Israeli statement about the Arab exodus, I was struck by the fact that no primary evidence of evacuation orders was ever produced. The charge, Israel claimed, was "documented"; but where were the documents? There had allegedly been Arab radio broadcasts ordering the evacuation; but no dates, names of stations, or texts of messages were ever cited. In Israel in 1958, as a guest of the Foreign Office and therefore doubly hopeful of serious assistance, I asked to be shown the proofs, I was assured they existed, and was promised them. None had been offered when I left, but I was again assured. I asked to have the material sent on to me. I am still waiting.
While in Israel, however, I met Dr. Leo Kohn, professor of political science at
Hebrew University and an ambassador-rank adviser to the Israeli Foreign Office. He had written one of the first official pamphlets on the Arab refugees. I asked him for concrete evidence of the Arab evacuation orders. Agitatedly, Dr. Kohn replied: "Evidence? Evidence? What more could you want than this?" and he took up his own pamphlet. "Look at this
`Economist' report," and he pointed to a quotation. "You will surely not suggest that the `Economist' is a Zionist journal?"
The quotation is one of about five that appear in every Israeli speech and pamphlet, and are in turn used by every sympathetic analysis. It seemed very impressive: it referred to the exodus from
Haifa, and to an Arab broadcast order as one major reason for that exodus."
Also the BBC monitored all Middle Eastern broadcasts throughout 1948, and those records, and also other from a U.S. monitoring unit, can be seen at the British Museum. Dr. Childers examined every record and found:
"There was not a single order, or appeal, or suggestion about evacuation from Palestine from any Arab radio station, inside or outside Palestine, in 1948. There is repeated monitored record of Arab appeals, even flat orders, to the civilians of Palestine
to stay put"
The Arabs and British meant to destroy Israel and make the Jews a minority on Muslim conquered land once again.
They lost.
The Arabs in the north, who had not fled, got to stay in Israel.
Those who fled, or fought against the Jews and Israel, were not allowed to return.
Drivel; the British facilitated Jewish migration and land purchase from 1918 to 1939, so creating the mess in Palestine in the first place. Zionist terrorist groups attacked the British when they realised they'd made a huge mistake and began restricting Jewish immigration.
Those native Palestinians who were expelled were never allowed to return because they were seen as a demographic "threat" to the newly created "Jews" only, Zionist paradise.
The Jews, wether returning from Europe, America, or anywhere else in the world, are the indigenous people of the land of Israel. They are the descendants of all the 12 tribes of Israel.
A teeny, tiny, minority might possibly have some tenuous links to the Judeans of antiquity, but the overwhelming majority are descendants of European converts to Judaism.
The Palestinians are Arabs. The Arab Muslims invaded the area after the Muslim Kurds and tookover from the Christian Byzantine Empire.
The native population of Palestine were never Arabs, but adopted the Arabic language and culture during the centuries following the Arab conquest. The majority eventually converted to Islam, largely for tax reasons, as Muslims didn't need to pay taxes or tribute to their conquerors.
There was no Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, or Iraq either.
