"We'll drink Jews' blood" - Genocide drive since 1920 by Arab-Muslims against Jews in Israel "palestine"

[luiza]

"We will drink the blood of the Jews . " As is often the case when mobs are worked to a frenzy

Prefer other blood types for my Adrenochrome .
And of course I am well aware how Jews try to work the Goyim .

You are unlucky because I can rung rings round you two novices .

Cut down the length of your posts . Nobody reads them
Cut out pre 1948 History because nobody is interested in that either except other Jews .

Am trying to make you more successful Trolls because at the moment I regard you as ineffective .
Where has that Rowdie gone?
What a common Oik he was . Brains of a Hamster.

Anyhow good luck with your misinformation .
And remember your posts are my entertainment .

 

[Sayaras]

NAZISM AND ARAB PALESTINE SINCE 1933

1933:


"Noble Hitler" — Says "Falastin " — The Palestine Post 22 May 1933

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Goebbels in 1938: "in Palestine... the Arabs admire the fuhrer as though he were holy".

Zimmermann, Moshe. Germans Against Germans: The Fate of the Jews, 1938–1945. United States, Indiana University Press, 2022, p. 201.

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1934-1936: Arabs boycott Jews with Swastikas

Arabs Use Swastika in Fight for Trade of Jews in Holy Land.
JTA, Aug 14, 1934 .

Arabs Use Swastika in Fight for Trade of Jews in Holy Land - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Arabic posters with the swastika prominently displayed and advocating a boycott of all Jewish stores have suddenly appeared in Arab shop windows in Jerusalem and Haifa. At the same time walls in the two cities were placarded with the Arabic swastika posters. The anti-Jewish boycott movement...

www.jta.org

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1936:

Hitler's "Mein Kampf" in Arabic best seller in Palestine, Iraq, Syria and other Arabic land...

The Canadian Jewish Chronicle, Dec 4, 1936 (p.7)

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1937:

All Arabs in Palestine celebrate Muhammad's birthday with Hitler photos...

New York Times, May 23, 1937.

ALL ARABS CELEBRATE PROPHET'S BIRTHDAY; Christians Join Moslems in Fete Unprecedented in Palestine--Hitler and Duce Cheered (Published 1937)

Cheered by Palestine Arabs celebrating Mohammed's birthday

www.nytimes.com

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Arabs Hail Hitler As Racial Friend (Sep. 1938)

Prescott Evening Courier, Sep 13, 1938 (p.1)

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Journalist John Gunther in 1939: "Hitler is tremendously popular with the Arabs... The greatest contemporary Arab hero is – Adolf Hitler."

Gunther, John. Inside Asia. United Kingdom, Harper, 1939, p.528.

Link

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1941 poll: 88% of Palestine Arabs for Hitler.

Nakba was result of Palestinians backing Nazis during WWII.

Nakba was result of Palestinians backing Nazis during WWII

Opinion: The longer only one side of the so-called Palestinian Catastrophe is cultivated, the longer hatred will continue to be nurtured, while historical facts point to Palestinians openly supporting Nazi propaganda during WWII

www.ynetnews.com

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Photographic Evidence Shows Palestinian Leader Amin al-Husseini at a Nazi Concentration Camp
An analysis of photographs sold at a Jerusalem auction house offers new insight into the role of foreign accomplices in Hitler’s Final Solution

Photographic Evidence Shows Palestinian Leader Amin al-Husseini at a Nazi Concentration Camp

An analysis of photographs sold at a Jerusalem auction house offers new insight into the role of foreign accomplices in Hitler’s Final Solution

www.tabletmag.com

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Palestine pan Arab leader, the Mufti: 1942, planned crematorium in the holy land.

Report: Jerusalem’s Grand Mufti Planned Construction of ‘Auschwitz-Like’ Crematorium in Israel - Algemeiner.com

A veteran Israeli journalist recalled on Friday that research he conducted in 1968 revealed a plan by Jerusalem's World War II -era grand mufti to build a crematorium in Samaria, Israeli daily Israel Hayom reported. As part of his research on Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini's actions in 1942...

www.algemeiner.com

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CONFESSIONS:

Ahmad Shukeiri (Shukairy, Shuqayri):

We prayed and cheered for Hitler.

*Encounter. United Kingdom, Encounter Limited, 1972, p.76 .

*Kedourie, Elie. Arabic Political Memoirs and Other Studies. United Kingdom, Taylor & Francis, 2012, p. 190 .

*Milstein, Uri. History of the War of Independence: A nation girds for war. United Kingdom, University Press of America, 1996, p. 160.

Aḥmad Shuqayrī, Beirut: Dār al-Nahār, 1969, p.196:
"Our sympathies were with the Axis countries, headed by Hitler who led them from victory to victory. With our sympathies, our prayers were for victory for Germany."

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PLO:

PLO Official: We Supported the Nazis in WWII. INN, Dec 9, 2013.

Former political bureau head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) removes any doubt over Arab support for Nazi Germany....
Qaddoumi replied, “Germany, yes. This was common among the Palestinians, especially since our enemy was Zionism, and we saw that Zionism was hostile to Germany, and vice versa.”
These remarks are just the latest evidence of the Arab support for Nazis and for genocide of Jews....



1948:

Hitler's army are active with many groups of Arab invaders in Palestine.

Palestine. (1948). United States: AZC, vol. 5, p. 31.

Palestine

books.google.com

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1970s/1980s

Report Confirms Cooperation Between Neo-nazis and PLO.
The annual report of the West German security services released here today for the first time officially confirms that there is cooperation between neo-Nazis in this country and the Palestine Liberation Organization.
August 11, 1981

Report Confirms Cooperation Between Neo-nazis and PLO - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

The annual report of the West German security services released here today for the first time officially confirms that there is cooperation between neo-Nazis in this country and the Palestine Liberation Organization. It is also the most detailed annual survey of rightwing and leftwing extremism...

www.jta.org

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Today

'Wake up Hitler, there are still people to burn,' in Palestinian textbooks.
Despite promises to the contrary, UNRWA continues to employ educational staff that routinely advocate hatred and violence against Jews, even going so far as praising Hitler; 'UNRWA is fully culpable in this fiasco,' says UN watchdog.

Itamar Eichner | published: 03.15.23 .

'Wake up Hitler, there are still people to burn,' in Palestinian textbooks

Despite promises to the contrary, UNRWA continues to employ educational staff that routinely advocate hatred and violence against Jews, even going so far as praising Hitler; 'UNRWA is fully culpable in this fiasco,' says UN watchdog

www.ynetnews.com

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Why Nazis attend Palestinian college rallies.
Nov 9, 2023 — Why Nazis attend Palestinian college rallies ... Why are white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups popping up at pro-Palestinian...

https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116550/documents/HHRG-118-JU00-20231108-SD011.pdf

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De-Nazify the Palestinian leadership
Moderates can only emerge if the dark legacy of the Mufti is expunged.

(Sep. 24, 2023 / JNS)

De-Nazify the Palestinian leadership

Moderates can only emerge if the dark legacy of the Mufti is expunged.

www.jns.org

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Mein Kampf in Gaza—and Beyond.
In more recent years, Hitler’s manifesto has continued to enjoy considerable popularity in the Arab world.
November 25, 2023.

Mein Kampf in Gaza—and Beyond

In more recent years, Hitler’s manifesto has continued to enjoy considerable popularity in the Arab world.

jewishjournal.com

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No need to apologize: Hamas are indeed the New Nazis.
The PalestiNazis, if we are to put this in a nutshell, aspire to complete what the Nazis failed to do – the destruction of the Jewish people. The time has come for us to finally take them seriously and simply believe them, that they fully intend to do what they say. As now, it is not only their words that speak for themselves, but their actions too.

03-03-2024.

"Hitler" – the preacher Massoud Rian once informed his audience – "was sent by Allah to punish the Jews for their bad behavior... and the Jews well and truly deserve their punishment." Rian delivered his inflammatory filth as part of the "enlightened" Jewish-Arab struggle against the demolition of the illegal construction site of Khan al-Ahmar, not far from the location of the fatal terrorist attack perpetrated by three PalestiNazis near the town of Ma'ale Adumim just last week. His "illuminating" words were broadcast live on Palestinian TV.
Hitler (of cursed memory) has a number of advocates among the Palestinians. And not only among Hamas.

No need to apologize: Hamas are indeed the New Nazis – www.israelhayom.com

"Hitler" – the preacher Massoud Rian once informed his audience – "was sent by Allah to punish the Jews for their bad behavior... and the Jews well and truly deserve their punishment." Rian delivered his inflammatory filth as part of the "enlightened" Jewish-Arab struggle against the demolition...

www.israelhayom.com

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Scott Jennings calls out student 'Hitlers,' antisemitism on college campuses: 'Open your eyes' | Fox News Video

CNN commentator Scott Jennings addressed former Trump chief of staff John Kelly's claim that former President Trump once spoke favorably of Hitler.

www.foxnews.com

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[Kruska]

Excerpts from a long article:

From a Jewish-Israeli website - got a problem to mention this? I wonder why

That's how it all started.

It didn't start on April 4th 1920 - but already in the 1880'ies

The conflict has its origins in the rise of Zionism in the late 19th century in Europe, a movement which aimed to establish a Jewish state via the colonization by Foreign Jews, of Arab-Palestinian populated lands, and thus the consequent first arrival of Foreign Jewish colonialists to Ottoman Palestine in 1882. - in order to deflect from the term Colonialists - they now refer to themselves as Israelis and Jewish settlers.

The local Arab-Palestinian population increasingly began to oppose Zionism, primarily out of the fear of territorial displacement and dispossession.

As history undoubtedly proofs - the Arab-Palestinian population was absolutely correct in fearing/rejecting Jewish colonialists.

The Zionist movement garnered the huge support of an imperial power in the 1917 Balfour Deceleration, issued by Britain, which promised to support the creation of a "Jewish Homeland for Jewish colonialists" in the Arab-Palestinian populated lands of the now termed British Mandate of Palestine.

And that is upon 1917, were hell started to break loose - aka Foreign colonialists fighting against the LOCAL population, and those Foreign Colonialists being attacked by the LOCAL population.
And since 1967 LOCALS fighting against the colonization of their remaining lands by Israelis and Jewish settlers, until today

 

[Sayaras]

Perhaps Hamas is the party guilty of genocide - of the Palestinian people?

Genocide is defined as 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.

Let's focus on C

Isn't Hamas, by purposely implanting itself in civilian areas, "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part"?

Imagine a scenario where the Lord lifted all Palestinian civilians and deposited them safely in a corner of Gaza that has no strategic importance to Israel. Which side would move to draw them into the fray? Would Israel bomb the now exposed civilians, or would Hamas immediately move weapons and infrastructure into that area?

The answer is clear. Israel would feel pure relief if the civilians were to be removed, while Hamas would immediately move to "inflict conditions of life to bring about their destruction." Without civilian deaths, the Hamas effort crumbles.

And NOTE: Hamas's intent is not to discourage an Israeli attack (which is what the Geneva Conventions contemplated human shields would be used for); To the contrary, Hamas's intent is to have its own civilians die.

By destroying its own ethnic group, Hamas pursues its war objective.

Intent is easy to find:

1. Times interview:
Behind Hamas’s Bloody Gambit to Create a ‘Permanent’ State of War (Published 2023)& Hamas’s Bloody Arithmetic (Published 2023)
Thousands have been killed in Gaza, with entire families wiped out. Israeli airstrikes have reduced Palestinian neighborhoods to expanses of rubble, while doctors treat screaming children in darkened hospitals with no anesthesia. Across the Middle East, fear has spread over the possible outbreak of a broader regional war.
But in the bloody arithmetic of Hamas’s leaders, the carnage is not the regrettable outcome of a big miscalculation. Quite the opposite, they say: It is the necessary cost of a great accomplishment — the shattering of the status quo and the opening of a new, more volatile chapter in their fight against Israel.

2. Multiple other statements (borrowed from here:
https://stratcomcoe.org/cuploads/pfiles/hamas_human_shields.pdf, but there are more on MEMRI from the last 2 months):
Hamas (via spokespeople):
2006: “The citizens will continue defending their pride and houses and will continue to serve as human shields until the enemy will withdraw.”
2014: “The fact that people are willing to sacrifice themselves against Israeli warplanes in order to protect their homes, I believe this strategy is proving itself. And we, Hamas, call on our people to adopt this practice.”
2014: “Hamas despises those defeatist Palestinians that criticize the high number of civilian casualties. The resistance praises our people…we lead our people to death…I mean, to war.”Ismail Haniyeh, former Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority (2006- 2014), Head of Hamas Political Bureau in Gaza (since 2017)
2006: Citizens were encouraged to gather at Muhammad Baroud’s house (a prominent PRC combatant) in Jabaliya refugee camp, after the IDF issued a warning. Following the event, Haniyeh stated: “I believe that what has happened tonight will be a role model… an example to our Palestinian people and a clear message, that the [Zionist] aggression will not break our will.”
2008: “Israel threatens to bombard houses [in which freedom fighters live], but hundreds and thousands of Palestinians climb to those houses rooftops in the middle of the night to defend those houses.”Fathi Hamad, Hamas MP
2008: “For the Palestinian people, death has become an industry […]. This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly and the mujahideen.”Khaled Mashal, Head of the Hamas Political Bureau (1996-2017) “If you will foolishly decide to enter Gaza, we will fight you. You will face not only thousands of our combatants, but also a million and a half of our population, driven by the desire to become martyrs.”Ministry of Interior in the Gaza Strip (via spokespeople)
2009: “Men in uniform have been declared targets for air strikes. As a result, while outside in the terrain, uniforms are to be discarded and civilian clothes are to be worn.”Growing Criticism Of Hamas And Its Officials By Gaza Residents: They Brought A Needless War Upon Us; Our Lives Are Worthless In Their Eyes; We Yearn To See The End Of Hamas
2014: "“We call those who evacuated their houses to return immediately and stay there… Israel’s warnings are nothing but psychological warfare… by leaving your houses you assist the enemy to fulfil its plans, that is, annihilating your belongings and houses.”
2023 : Hamas Political Bureau head Isma'il Haniya said on October 26, 2023 that Hamas "needs" the blood of many Gazan civilians – women, children and elderly –"because it awakens within us the revolutionary spirit."

Seems like a strong argument to me.— Noam Dworman (@noam_dworman) January 26, 2024

Great post

 

[Sayaras]

From a Jewish-Israeli ..

Actually, the testimony of "drink the blood of the Jews" and "Mohammad’s religion was born with the sword," was by:

Witness such as

Christian Arab Khalil al Sakakini.

But you didn't even bother to read you are not inetested in facts.

 

[Pastelli]

Not really so.

Beacuse?

 

[Sayaras]

It didn't start on April 4th 1920 - but already in the 1880'ies

..

When the Arabs flooded into the deserted land which only the cool zionists returnees, began cultivating.

 

[irosie91]

When the Arabs flooded into the deserted land which only the cool zionists returnees, began cultivating.

"IT" started with the rapist dog of mecca.

 

[Sayaras]

Sa'ar to Palestinian Arab reporter: What you call Palestine is the land of Israel.
At Munich Security Conference, Foreign Minister responds to reporter who asked him about “Palestine”: It's a pity that all these years, we haven’t found a partner for peace, but we had enemies that never abandoned the path of terrorism and incitement.
Israel National News. Feb 14, 2025.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Friday responded to a Palestinian Arab reporter who asked him at the Munich Security Conference about “Palestine” and said, “What you call Palestine is the land of Israel.”

The reporter, who said she is from Shechem (Nablus), asked Sa’ar about US President Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza and said it would result in Hamas being “outside of Palestine” where they will have much more visibility to mobilize.

“Israel took during the years very bold decisions, maybe mistaken, but bold decisions. Israel created the Palestinian Authority, bringing the PLO terrorists from Tunisia. Israel withdrew from all [of the] Gaza Strip. Israel more than gave a chance to [a] peace process with the Palestinians,” Sa’ar replied, then added, “I mean, the Palestinians never had, in the history of our country, never in history were sovereign in this land. What you call Palestine is the name that Caesar Adrianus gave to the land of Israel when he conquered it…So what you call Palestine is the land of Israel.”

“And it's a pity that in spite of all our efforts during all these years, we haven’t found a partner to go to real peace, but we had enemies that never abandoned the path of terrorism, incitement, and the will to destroy Israel was much stronger than the will to build their own state,” said Sa’ar.

He also spoke about the hostage release deal and made clear, “The war won't be over until we will bring all our hostages back home. Any hostage that comes back home to his family brings us closer to our objective. So it is very important…to continue to implement [the deal].”

Sa'ar to Palestinian Arab reporter: What you call Palestine is the land of Israel

At Munich Security Conference, Foreign Minister responds to reporter who asked him about “Palestine”: It's a pity that all these years, we haven’t found a partner for peace, but we had enemies that never abandoned the path of terrorism and incitement.

www.israelnationalnews.com

 

[Sayaras]

Prefer other blood types for my .. .

LUIZA

HITLER'S MULLAH

TROLLS

 

[Sayaras]

Nothing has changed since

 

[Pastelli]

When the Arabs flooded into the deserted land which only the cool zionists returnees, began cultivating.

Yes. It was mostly deserted prior to that.

 

[irosie91]

Yes. It was mostly deserted prior to that.

I remain mystified since I was a teenager and Nasser
issued scary statements about his GREAT VICTORIES
in the 1967 war that ----I (naive me) BELIEVED. He
seemed like a smart guy----and to me (way back then)
"smart" was similar to honest. ---well I was young.
Today, in the USA----even mature adults are just as silly
as I was at age 16-----and 9 when I actually believed the
published islamo nazi propaganda. Then (age ~ 20) I began running into 'educated' people from muslim lands and my
my college mates. ----it's hopeless. The whole world has folded down into sheer idiocy

 

[Sayaras]

Yes.
The British Mandate thought that if they promote the agitator, al husseini, he will calm down. But they erred.


Australian Jewish Association - AJA.
October 11, 2020.

The British controllers of the Mandated Land liberated from the Ottomans appointed someone who was later declared a war criminal in the Nuremberg trials..

To control the violence against the Jews, the British appointed Haj Amin al-Husseini, the spiritual-political leader of the Muslims in Mandated Palestine, as the grand mufti of Jerusalem, hoping he would help calm the passions. The British could not have chosen a worse person.

Husseini was a virulent anti-Semite.
He later became a close ally of Adolf Hitler, and actively supported the Final Solution, that is, the mass extermination of Jews.
After WW-II, in Nuremberg trial, Husseini was declared a full-fledged Nazi war criminal for having been actively involved in the Holocaust.
He escaped to Egypt where he was given asylum. There he helped organize many former Nazis/Nazi sympathizers against Israel.
He incited the Arabs with messages like
“Itbah al-Yahud” (kill the Jews) and “Nashrab dam al-Yahud” (we will drink the blood of the Jews), and instigated anti-Jewish riots.
Source

By the time the Brits realized their mistake in promoting Nazi Mufti, it was too late.

 

[Sayaras]

The War of Return

Two prominent Israeli liberals argue that for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to end with peace, Palestinians must come to terms with the fact that there will be no "right of return."In 1948, seven hundred thousand Palestinians were forced out of their homes by the first...

books.google.com

[The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace 1250252768, 9781250252760 - DOKUMEN.PUB]
Schwartz, A., Wilf, E. (2020). The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace. United States: St. Martin's Publishing Group, Pt. 1.


At first, the departure of so many Arabs from their homes surprised the heads of the Jewish Yishuv. Some even believed it was an Arab conspiracy designed to help the Arab states and discredit Israel abroad. James Grover McDonald, the first US ambassador to Israel, wrote in his memoirs that Israel’s leaders were “quite unprepared.” “I couldn’t understand,” wrote David Ben-Gurion in his diary, visiting Jaffa a few days after tens of thousands of Arabs had fled. “Why did the inhabitants leave?” In May 1948, Golda Meir told the Mapai Central Committee that the Yishuv had not entered the war prepared for victory—had it been, it would have planned in advance what to do with the captured Arab localities.[45]

Other statements by Yishuv leaders also show that when the Israeli leadership accepted partition, it had no advance plans to expel the Arabs from Israel, and that were it not for the Arab rejection of partition and the war they waged to prevent it, they could all have remained in their homes. The Palestinians would later argue that Zionism was by its nature a movement geared toward population transfer and that it could not have achieved its objectives without expelling the Arabs from Palestine. In this thesis, the war was just an excuse: the expulsion would have happened anyway. But it is a fact that the departure of the Arabs was a result of the war and only of the war. Before the Arabs waged war against partition, they did not leave their homes. The Arab flight and the refugees from the war were neither inevitable nor necessary nor inherent in Zionism. Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett attested at the end of the war, for example, that if the Arabs had reconciled themselves with the UN partition decision, “the State of Israel would have arisen with a large Arab minority, which would have left its impress on the state, on its manner of governance, and on its economic life, and [this Arab minority] would have constituted an organic part of the state.”[46]

At the height of the war, when Israel’s victory was far from assured and battles were raging with maximum ferocity across the land, Ben-Gurion read out the Declaration of Independence in Tel Aviv, calling on the Arabs “to participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship.” Indeed, some 150,000 Arabs, then a fifth of the young state’s population, remained within Israel’s borders and became its citizens.[47]

But the fact remains that hundreds of thousands of Arabs did indeed leave their homes in the course of the war.

This was a bloody, violent, and existential war. Israel fought for its life against an enemy that had repeatedly declared its opposition to its very existence, in any borders. As in any war of this nature, when fighting militia are mixed in with the local population, and when there is neither time nor luxury to separate the fighters from the non-fighters, expulsions, as seems to have happened in Lod, do happen. In some places, Palestinians obeyed the orders of the Arab leadership to leave as part of the overall fighting; in others, such as the Galilee Panhandle, the Yishuv’s psychological warfare campaign was key in causing the Arabs to flee their homes.

... there were also cases—most notably in Haifa—where the leaders of the Jewish Yishuv implored the Arabs to remain, but they opted to flee out of fear or lest they be considered traitors. There were also further reasons for the Arabs’ flight. For one, the departure at the outset of the war of thousands of families from the Palestinian elite ultimately swept up the common people as well. Additionally, the prolongation of the war caused the economy to suffer, and many could no longer bear the hardship and turmoil. And the flight from Jaffa was aided by the behavior of the Arab volunteers there: sent to fight the Jews, in reality they also abused the local Arab population and committed numerous acts of murder and rape.[49]

The nature of the war was the major contributor to the Arabs’ departure, much more than any specific instance of fighting during the war. The Arab side defined it at the outset as a struggle between life and death. The secretarygeneral of the Arab League declared on the eve of the war, “This will be a war of extermination and momentous massacre, which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacre and the Crusades.”[50]

In a telegram to the Arab League at the start of the hostilities, Ismail Safwat, who was in charge of coordination between the different Arab forces, described the war’s objectives, starting with “to eliminate the Jews of Palestine, and to completely cleanse the country of them.”[51]

In March 1948, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the leader of the Palestinians, declared that the Arabs would “continue to fight until the Zionists are eliminated, and the whole of Palestine is a purely Arab state.”[52]

Indeed, not a single Jew remained in the areas conquered by Arab forces. The Palestinian fighters sought to expel the Jews and destroy their communities, as in Gush Etzion, on the southern outskirts of Jerusalem, and in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, where Jews had lived for millennia. All twelve Jewish towns and villages captured by the Arab armies were completely leveled, and their inhabitants had either fled, were murdered, or fell into captivity.[53]

With such a state of affairs, in the context of a bloody war of survival—which, from the perspective of the Jews, who had accepted partition, was therefore entirely unnecessary—the Israelis’ growing intolerance for the local Arab population was understandable. The leader of Ahdut HaAvoda (a socialist Zionist faction), Yitzhak Tabenkin, described this feeling well in October 1948 in saying, “We argued amongst ourselves whether to expel [the Arabs] or not. The Arabs never even asked those of ours they captured and brutally killed [whether or not to expel them] … If we are faced with the choice: the expulsion [of Arabs] or murder [of Jews], everyone would choose expulsion.”[54]

The Palestinians argue that the war inflicted a terrible tragedy on them and that they suffered an exceptional injustice. This is, at the very least, a thoroughly disingenuous claim. Those who wage war to eliminate another people, and to prevent their achieving independence, cannot legitimately complain that “they suffered an exceptional injustice” when they lose and flee the land. The claim to exceptionalism is also untrue, when compared to other twentieth-century events. A comparison reveals that there was nothing unique in the circumstances around the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem, neither in terms of its nature nor its scale nor its severity. This becomes especially clear when considering that when judging the legality and morality of a historical event, it is the international standards in place at the time that are the relevant ones, and not the standards adopted decades later. Expulsions and population exchanges, both voluntary and forced were actually quite common throughout the twentieth century. Until the end of the Cold War, not only were population exchanges considered legitimate under international law, but the separation of warring parties, in order to minimize the presence of national minorities, was considered key to peacemaking between different ethnic groups. In the Greco–Bulgarian peace treaty of 1919, for example, it was agreed to transfer 46,000 ethnic Greek citizens of Bulgaria to Greece, while 96,000 ethnic Bulgarian citizens of Greece would move to Bulgaria. Four years later, when Greece and Turkey signed a peace treaty, they agreed on a forced population exchange of 1.2 million ethnic Greek citizens of Turkey for 600,000 ethnic Turkish citizens of Greece.[55] In the 1940s, at the same time when the Palestinian refugee problem was created, there were several large-scale waves of refugees, as the Allied victory in the Second World War provoked a series of expulsions and population exchanges. In most cases (as with the Palestinians), members of nations defeated in war were forced to pay the price. No fewer than twelve million Germans fled or were expelled from what became western Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Ukraine, Romania, Yugoslavia, and the Baltic states. They were not treated as individuals but as a collective ethnic group. Three hundred thousand Italians were forced out of Yugoslavia.[56] These expulsions were horrendously brutal. All of them happened after the war had ended and Germany had signed an unconditional surrender, so they were not due to military requirements. In Czechoslovakia, for example, German ethnic students were pulled through the streets of Prague to Wenceslas Square, where petrol was poured over them and they were set alight. Also in Czechoslovakia, thousands of Germans were marched to the former concentration camp at Terezín, better known as Theresienstadt, which was previously used by the Nazis; hundreds died en route to the camp. Once there, they were led through a tunnel into a muddy courtyard, beaten along the way by Czech guards; those who were too old or ill were killed on the spot.[57] In Poland, thousands of ethnic Germans were taken by rail to the border with Germany. One survivor recalled that it took weeks to progress a few dozen kilometers. The trains moved achingly slowly, and often they were deliberately kept in sidings for days. “Men, women and children were all mixed together, tightly packed in the railway cars which were locked from the outside. When the wagons were opened for the first time I saw from one of them ten corpses were taken and then thrown into coffins … I noticed that several people had become deranged. The people were covered in excrement.”[58] German interns in a Polish concentration camp testified that inmates "had their eyes beaten out with rubber cudgels work parties [who] were buried alive in liquid manure," and one man "had a toad forced down his throat until he choked to death " while guards looked on laughing.[59]

[...]
It is also crucially important to remember in the Arab– Jewish context that hundreds of thousands of Jews were forced to leave their homes in Arab countries during and after the war. Between 1947 and the mid-1950s, the ancient Jewish communities of Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Yemen, which preceded the birth of Islam and the Arab conquests of the Middle East, were eliminated. Besides expulsions and acts of violence and pogroms that wrought fear on the Jews of the Arab world, authorities took a series of steps (including confiscating property, revoking citizenship, and freezing bank accounts) that forced the Jews to leave. The Jews of the Arab world suffered fierce revenge at the hands of the Arabs because they were members of the same people and nation that had just successfully resisted and defeated Arab armies. The Arab world, which was for over a millennium home to established Jewish communities since the destruction of the First Temple in ancient times, was completely emptied of its Jews, many of whom found refuge in Israel.[62]

But unlike the Palestinians who fled or were forced to leave the territory that became the state of Israel, none of these Jews have remained refugees. They moved on to build new lives in Israel and in other countries. The number of Palestinian casualties in the war was not exceptional, either. An estimated 12,000 Palestinians, 1 percent of the population, were killed in the war—a rate equal to the casualty rate among Jews, of 6,000 from a population of 600,000. To put this balance in context, in the wave of violence that engulfed the Indian subcontinent, the death toll is estimated at up to 3 million people, also 1 percent of the local population.[63]

The Palestinian defeat exacted a human toll, but it was neither necessary nor exceptional. Had the Arabs of Palestine accepted the UN proposal for partition of the land with the Jews of Palestine, they would have been celebrating decades of independence in a state of their own, and there would have been no displacement to recount. In rejecting that proposal and violently opposing its implementation, they suffered displacement, but nothing in the conditions of the war and the displacement—whether in intensity of violence or numbers—was exceptional. The answer to why the Palestinian refugee problem still exists lies neither in the conditions of its birth nor in its scale nor in the number of victims: nothing here is unique.
The answer must lie elsewhere.


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45.
James G. McDonald, My Mission in Israel, 1948–1951 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1951), 176; Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947–1949, 119, 185.

46 .
Quoted in Morris, 1948, 410.

47.
Israel’s Declaration of Independence, available at: https://www.knesset.gov.il/docs/eng/megilat_eng.htm; see also Arab Society in Israel: Information Portfolio (Neve Ilan: Abraham Fund, 2009), 4 [Hebrew], https://www.abrahamfund.org/webfiles/fck/Ogdan Final.pdf.

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49.
Morris, 1948, 154; Shmuel Segev, ed., In Enemy Eyes (Tel Aviv: Ma’arachot, 1954), 34 [Hebrew].

50.
See David Barnett and Efraim Karsh, “Azzam’s Genocidal Threat,” Middle East Quarterly 18, no. 4 (Fall 2011): 85–88.

51.
Quoted in Samuel Segev, Behind the Screen: The Iraqi Parliamentary Committee on the War against Israel (Tel Aviv: Ma’arachot, 1954), 77 [Hebrew].

52.
Quoted in Morris, 1948, 408.

53.
Ibid., 408–410.

54.
Quoted in Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947–1949, 451.

55.
Yossi Katz, “Transfer of Population as a Solution to International Disputes: Population Exchanges Between Greece and Turkey as a Model for Plans to Solve the Jewish-Arab Dispute in Palestine During the 1930s,” Political Geography 11, no. 1 (January 1992): 55–72; Yaffa Zilbershats and Nimra Goren-Amitai, The Return of Palestinian Refugees to the State of Israel (Jerusalem: Metzilah Center, 2011), 78–79.

56.
Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956 (New York: Anchor Books, 2013), 116–147; see also Guido Ambroso, “The End of History? Conflict, Displacement and Durable Solutions in the PostCold War Era,” Research Paper 207 (Geneva: UNHCR, 2011), 2.

57.
Giles MacDonogh, After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation (New York: Basic Books, 2007), 154. For other accounts of the ethnic cleansing of Germans after WW II, see Keith Lowe, Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II, (London: Viking, 2012); Ben Shephard, The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War (London: The Bodley Head, 2010); R. M. Douglas, Orderly and Humane, The Expulsion of the Germans after the Second World War (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012); Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994).

58.
“Report to Office of Military Government Bavaria,” quoted in Victor Sebestyen, 1946: The Making of the Modern World (New York: Vintage, 2014), loc. 2229. Kindle.

59.
Quoted in ibid., loc. 2239. Kindle.

60.
Winston Churchill cited in Applebaum, Iron Curtain, 22.

61.
Chaim D. Kaufmann, “When All Else Fails: Ethnic Population Transfers and Partitions in the Twentieth Century,” International Security 23, no. 2 (Fall 1998): 132–144; Prashant Bharadwaj, Asim Khwaja, and Atif Mian, “The Big March: Migratory Flows after the Partition of India,” Economic and Political Weekly 43, no. 35 (2008): 39–49.

62.
Martin Gilbert, In Ishmael’s House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010).

63.
Morris, 1948, 406; see also K. Hill et al., “The Demographic Impact of Partition in the Punjab in 1947,” Population Studies 62, no. 2 (July 2008): 155–170.

 

[whitehall]

It's likely they are saying that at Columbia University as we speak. If anybody wonders how the Holocaust could have happened in a Christian country like Germany in the 30's look no further than the insane anti-Semitic violence on college campuses in the U.S. supported by the mainstream media and half of the federal government today.

 

[Sayaras]

It's likely they are saying that at Columbia University as we speak. If anybody wonders how the Holocaust could have happened in a Christian country like Germany in the 30's look no further than the insane anti-Semitic violence on college campuses in the U.S. supported by the mainstream media and half of the federal government today.

Sadly