Marc39
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The little town of Najd with a population of about 760 had a history that went back over 400 years. It was a farm community that employed irrigation in its agriculture. Before the 1948 war Najd was attacked and its population expelled.
What was the defensive rationale for the attack on this little village?
Arabs expelled themselves.
Historian Benny Morris further edifies...
...on the local level, in dozens of localities around Palestine, Arab leaders advised or ordered the evacuation of women and children or whole communities, as occurred in Haifa in late April, 1948. And Haifa's Jewish mayor, Shabtai Levy, did, on April 22nd, plead with them to stay, to no avail.
Most of Palestine's 700,000 "refugees" fled their homes because of the flail of war (and in the expectation that they would shortly return to their homes on the backs of victorious Arab invaders).
Now, you know.
Note the Palestinian flag on the tower.
Not that the name they chose was relevant, but the idea that Palestinians did not relate to the term until after the 1967 war is propaganda. Their birth certificates said Palestine. Businesses used Palestine in their name. Palestine was on their money. They flew the Palestinian flag. This is a smokescreen issue.
The rights of the inhabitants to self determination embraced in international law is the important factor. The wishes of outsiders have no legitimacy.
Except, Arabs did not recognize any entity called Palestine.
Eminent Middle East historian Bernard Lewis edifies...
For Arabs, the term Palestine was unacceptable...For Muslims it was alien and irrelevant. The main objection for them was that it seemed to assert a separate entity which politically conscious Arabs in Palestine and elsewhere denied. For them there was no such thing as a country called Palestine. The region which the British called Palestine was merely a separated part of a larger whole. Palestine was not a country and had no frontiers, only administrative boundaries; it was a group of provincial subdivisions, by no means always the same, within a larger entity. For a long time organized and articulate Arab political opinion was virtually unanimous on this point.
Eminent Middle East historian Yehoshua Porath further edifies...
The First Congress of the Muslim-Christian Associations which met in Jerusalem in 1919 and brought together thirty delegates fro various parts of Palestine adopted the resolution
"We consider Palestine as part of Arab Syria as it has never been separated from it at any time. Weare connected with it by national, religious, linguistic, natural, economic and geographicaal bonds. We desire that our district Soouthern Syria or Palestine should not be separated from the Independent Arab Syrian government.
And, Arabs, themselves, did not acknowledge Palestine.
Professor Philip Hitti, eminent modern Arab historian, who represented the Institute of Arab American Affairs before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in 1946...
The Sunday schools have done a great deal of harm to us, because by smearing the walls of the rooms with maps of Palestine they are associating it in the mind of the average American--and I may say perhaps the Englishman, too--with the Jews. Sir, there is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not.
You're done.