That would be a direct consequence of Pallies launching a war against Israel, in violation of international law.
You see, Georgie boy, wars inevitably displace populations, which is why the Pallies should have thought better about going to war.
Georgie gets smacked down, again.
Yeah, like those Palestinian farmers in Najd who attacked those Israeli soldiers who came into their town to run them out.
How dare those farmers start a war with Israel!
Open a history book, dumb boy
You finally got one right, Marc.
How about Chomsky's
Fateful Triangle?
"Israel's strategy was to drive the Palestinians to largely-Muslim West Beirut (apart from those who were killed, dispersed or imprisoned), then to besiege the city, cutting off water, food, medical supplies and electricity, and to subject it to increasingly heavy bombardment.
"Naturally, the native Lebanese population was also severely battered. These measures had little impact on the PLO guerrilla fighters in Beirut, but civilians suffered increasingly brutal punishment.
"The correct calculation was that by this device, the PLO would be compelled to leave West Beirut to save it from total annihilation.97 It was assumed, also correctly, that American intellectuals could be found to carry out the task of showing that this too was a remarkable exercise in humanity and a historically unique display of 'purity of arms,' even having the audacity to claim that it was the PLO, not the Israeli attackers, who were 'holding the city and its population hostage'-a charge duly intoned by New York Times editors and many others. (See section 8.2.3.)
"Dan Connell, a journalist with wartime experience and Lebanon project officer for Oxfam, describes Israel's strategy as follows:
"The Israeli strategy was obvious. They were hitting a broad belt, and they kept moving the belt up toward the populated area and pushing the people in front of it. The Israelis forced an increasing concentration of people into a smaller space, so that the casualties increased geometrically with every single shell or bomb that landed."
Ready for the good part?
"The attackers used highly sophisticated U.S. weapons, including 'shells and bombs designed to penetrate through the buildings before they explode,' collapsing buildings inwards, and phosphorus bombs to set fires and cause untreatable burns.
"Hospitals were closed down or destroyed.
"Much of the Am el-H ilweh refugee camp near Sidon was 'flat as a parking lot' when Connell saw it, though 7-8000 Palestinians had drifted back-mostly women and children, since the men were 'either fighting or arrested or dead.'
"The Israelis bulldozed the mosque at the edge of the camp searching for arms, but 'found 90 or 100 bodies under it instead, completely rotted away.' Writing before the Beirut massacres but after the PLO had departed, he notes that 'there could be a bloodbath in west Beirut' if no protection is given to the remnants of the population."
War is Peace
Now convince us you're smarter than Chomksy.
