What About The Palestinian Holocaust?

[P F Tinmore]

Anywhere you feel comfortable.

The creation of an ethnically homogenous geographic area through the elimination of unwanted ethnic groups by deportation, forcible displacement, or genocide. Ethnic cleansing also has involved attempts to remove physical vestiges of the targeted group in the territory through the destruction and desecration of monuments, cemeteries, and houses of worship. Although some critics of the term have claimed that ethnic cleansing is simply a form of genocide, defenders of the usage have noted that, whereas the murder of an ethnic, racial, or religious group is the primary intention of a genocidal policy, the chief goal of ethnic cleansing is the establishment of homogenous lands, which may be achieved by any of a number of methods including genocide.

Ethnic cleansing - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Or:

civilian casualties and the destruction of civilian infrastructure are not simply by-products of war, but the consequence of the deliberate targeting of non-combatants…. n many conflicts, belligerents target civilians in order to expel or eradicate segments of the population, or for the purpose of hastening military surrender.

ethnic cleansing (war crime) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

 

[YKohen]

Anywhere you feel comfortable.

The creation of an ethnically homogenous geographic area through the elimination of unwanted ethnic groups by deportation, forcible displacement, or genocide. Ethnic cleansing also has involved attempts to remove physical vestiges of the targeted group in the territory through the destruction and desecration of monuments, cemeteries, and houses of worship. Although some critics of the term have claimed that ethnic cleansing is simply a form of genocide, defenders of the usage have noted that, whereas the murder of an ethnic, racial, or religious group is the primary intention of a genocidal policy, the chief goal of ethnic cleansing is the establishment of homogenous lands, which may be achieved by any of a number of methods including genocide.

civilian casualties and the destruction of civilian infrastructure are not simply by-products of war, but the consequence of the deliberate targeting of non-combatants…. n many conflicts, belligerents target civilians in order to expel or eradicate segments of the population, or for the purpose of hastening military surrender.

Right. That would be the Arabs-not Israel.

Thank you.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Anywhere you feel comfortable.

civilian casualties and the destruction of civilian infrastructure are not simply by-products of war, but the consequence of the deliberate targeting of non-combatants…. n many conflicts, belligerents target civilians in order to expel or eradicate segments of the population, or for the purpose of hastening military surrender.

Right. That would be the Arabs-not Israel.

Thank you.

Actually, in 1947/48 Israel kicked out most of the Christians and Muslims so that they could have a Jewish majority for their Jewish state.

 

[YKohen]

Actually, we already did that. But I see you need more:

"The Arab armies entered Palestine …. they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate and to leave their homeland...The Arab States succeeded in scattering the Palestinian people."
[By Abu Mazen, in an article entitled "Madha `Alamna wa-Madha Yajib An Na`mal", published in "Falastin eth-Thawra", the official journal of the PLO, Beirut, March 1976 ]

"The call by the Arab Governments to the inhabitants of Palestine to evacuate it and to leave for the bordering Arab countries, after having sown terror among them...
Since 1948 we have been demanding the return of the refugees to their homes. But we ourselves are the ones who encouraged them to leave...We have brought destruction upon a million Arab refugees, by calling upon them and pleading with them to leave their land, their homes, their work and business..."
[By Khaled al-`Azm, who served as Prime Minister of Syria in 1948 and 1949, wrote in his memoirs (published in Beirut, 1973, Part 1, pp. 386-387) ]

He also said:
"Since 1948 it is we who demanded the return of refugees… while it is we who made them to leave… We brought disaster upon… Arab refugees, by inviting them and bringing pressure to bear upon them to leave… We have rendered them dispossessed…
We have accustomed them to begging… We have participated in lowering their moral and social level… Then we exploited them in executing crimes of murder, arson, and throwing bombs upon… men, women and children - all this in service of political purposes…".

"The fact that there are these refugees is the direct consequence of the act of the Arab states in opposing partition and the Jewish state. The Arab states agree upon this policy unanimously and they must share in the solution of the problem."
- Emile Ghoury, secretary of the Palestinian Arab Higher Committee, in an interview with the Beirut Telegraph Sept. 6, 1948.
"The Arab state which had encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies, have failed to keep their promise to help these refugees."
- The Jordanian daily newspaper Falastin, Feb. 19, 1949.

"Who brought the Palestinians to Lebanon as refugees, suffering now from the malign attitude of newspapers and communal leaders, who have neither honor nor conscience? Who brought them over in dire straits and penniless, after they lost their honor? The Arab states, and Lebanon amongst them, did it."
- The Beirut Muslim weekly Kul-Shay, Aug. 19, 1951.

"The 15th May, 1948, arrived ... On that day the mufti of Jerusalem appealed to the Arabs of Palestine to leave the country, because the Arab armies were about to enter and fight in their stead."
- The Cairo daily Akhbar el Yom, Oct. 12, 1963.

"For the flight and fall of the other villages it is our leaders who are responsible because of their dissemination of rumors exaggerating Jewish crimes and describing them as atrocities in order to inflame the Arabs ... By spreading rumors of Jewish atrocities, killings of women and children etc., they instilled fear and terror in the hearts of the Arabs in Palestine, until they fled leaving their homes and properties to the enemy."
- The Jordanian daily newspaper Al Urdun, April 9, 1953.

 

[irosie91]

I have relatives (in fact I am married to one) WHO saw the HORRIBLE DEATH MARCH INFLICTED UPON ARABS----he lived a very short distance from a gaggle of arab shacks-----

it was horrific------one evening -----those poor BESIEGED arabs------calmly packed up their donkeys -----and calmly took a walk no guns---no soldiers ---no nothing------they went away as if they were going to the seaside for a holiday----they did not come back ------their mud floor huts---built on land they did not own-----remained

 

[P F Tinmore]

Actually, we already did that. But I see you need more:

"The Arab armies entered Palestine …. they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate and to leave their homeland...The Arab States succeeded in scattering the Palestinian people."
[By Abu Mazen, in an article entitled "Madha `Alamna wa-Madha Yajib An Na`mal", published in "Falastin eth-Thawra", the official journal of the PLO, Beirut, March 1976 ]

"The call by the Arab Governments to the inhabitants of Palestine to evacuate it and to leave for the bordering Arab countries, after having sown terror among them...
Since 1948 we have been demanding the return of the refugees to their homes. But we ourselves are the ones who encouraged them to leave...We have brought destruction upon a million Arab refugees, by calling upon them and pleading with them to leave their land, their homes, their work and business..."
[By Khaled al-`Azm, who served as Prime Minister of Syria in 1948 and 1949, wrote in his memoirs (published in Beirut, 1973, Part 1, pp. 386-387) ]

He also said:
"Since 1948 it is we who demanded the return of refugees… while it is we who made them to leave… We brought disaster upon… Arab refugees, by inviting them and bringing pressure to bear upon them to leave… We have rendered them dispossessed…
We have accustomed them to begging… We have participated in lowering their moral and social level… Then we exploited them in executing crimes of murder, arson, and throwing bombs upon… men, women and children - all this in service of political purposes…".

"The fact that there are these refugees is the direct consequence of the act of the Arab states in opposing partition and the Jewish state. The Arab states agree upon this policy unanimously and they must share in the solution of the problem."
- Emile Ghoury, secretary of the Palestinian Arab Higher Committee, in an interview with the Beirut Telegraph Sept. 6, 1948.
"The Arab state which had encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies, have failed to keep their promise to help these refugees."
- The Jordanian daily newspaper Falastin, Feb. 19, 1949.

"Who brought the Palestinians to Lebanon as refugees, suffering now from the malign attitude of newspapers and communal leaders, who have neither honor nor conscience? Who brought them over in dire straits and penniless, after they lost their honor? The Arab states, and Lebanon amongst them, did it."
- The Beirut Muslim weekly Kul-Shay, Aug. 19, 1951.

"The 15th May, 1948, arrived ... On that day the mufti of Jerusalem appealed to the Arabs of Palestine to leave the country, because the Arab armies were about to enter and fight in their stead."
- The Cairo daily Akhbar el Yom, Oct. 12, 1963.

"For the flight and fall of the other villages it is our leaders who are responsible because of their dissemination of rumors exaggerating Jewish crimes and describing them as atrocities in order to inflame the Arabs ... By spreading rumors of Jewish atrocities, killings of women and children etc., they instilled fear and terror in the hearts of the Arabs in Palestine, until they fled leaving their homes and properties to the enemy."
- The Jordanian daily newspaper Al Urdun, April 9, 1953.

How did these countries communicate these calls to the Palestinians?

 

[YKohen]

How did these countries communicate these calls to the Palestinians?

Why don't you ask them?

Hey: Here's more- from an Arab web site too, and it's the paradigm of the Arab lie- Deir Yassin:

Interviews: 50th Anniversary Of Deir Yassin Massacre

In retrospect, Palestinians of today admit that one of the most terrible mistakes they made back in 1948 was to over-report the details of the Deir Yassin massacre. "The goal was to mobilize Arab support for the Palestinians who were slaughtered by the Zionists but what really happened was that more and more Palestinians became scared and left their country," said Hazem Nusseibeh, a leading Palestinian figure who currently lives in Jordan. In 1948 he was among the key figures of the city of Jerusalem.

..."True, there was exchange of fire with the Jews. Prior to the attack, they used to come to the village and distribute leaflets calling for the establishment of friendly and brotherly relations with us offering a formula of 'do not hit us, we won't hit you.' Our youths confronted them and did not listen to them. Our youths used to go out to the eastern side of the village and beat up whatever Jew they saw."

...Mohammed Asaad Radwan Al Yassini, 70, who currently lives in the Old City of Jerusalem, confirmed that some of the men were dressed in women's outfits.

...Did they use speakers and what did they say?

"They called on us to surrender, to throw our weapons and to save ourselves. But we did not imagine them breaking into the village.

...Ali Yousef Jaber, Abu Yousef, is also 70 years old. He lives in Am'ari refugee camp near Ramallah. Excerpts below:

"I would like to stress on the fact that no rape incidents took place. That was part of a big lie that some of the Arabs and some of our leaders invented but were refuted by our villagers. I was among a group of people who went to Saad Eddin Al Aref to talk to him about this. He told us he wanted to frame them and attribute to them a brutal crime. I said to him: if you want to frame them, do not use Deir Yassin, or our women. Do not attribute to us something that never happened, otherwise this is infamy that our village and its people do not deserve...

Interviews: 50th anniversary of Deir Yassin massacre

 

[irosie91]

tinnie-----you ask an interesting question-----interestingly I know the answer. You don't and never will------but I will give you a tiny hint. There is something called "prayers"----the traditional muslim male adult (AND the traditional jew) ----rises early in the morning and gots to the mosque (synagogue) EVERY MORNING ------the level of communication across THOUSANDS OF MILES-----using this simple system is amazing. I can tell you stories

 

[MJB12741]

YES! Thank you Tinmore. You have a very fine rational brain. I forgot about Israel's "apartheid" as well. In fact you Zionists, Israel is so apartheid that it is the only country in the entire Middle East with citizens of nearly all living faiths. And as to "ethnic cleansing" once again just consider the documented facts. 1.2 million Palestinians living in Israel in 1948 & now just under 6 million of them left.

It's even worse than a Holocaust what Israel is doing to the Palestinians. It's a GENOCIDE I tell you --- a GENOCIDE. No wonder the Palestinian supporters want the world to know the truth. Just look at the documented population figures.

1.2 million... to 6 million...

sounds like they are breading like rats to me.

I almost never hear the term genocide although some of Israel's actions fit the legal description of genocide.

Ethnic cleansing and, more recently, apartheid are more accurate descriptions.

 

[Hossfly]

Actually, we already did that. But I see you need more:

"The Arab armies entered Palestine …. they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate and to leave their homeland...The Arab States succeeded in scattering the Palestinian people."
[By Abu Mazen, in an article entitled "Madha `Alamna wa-Madha Yajib An Na`mal", published in "Falastin eth-Thawra", the official journal of the PLO, Beirut, March 1976 ]

"The call by the Arab Governments to the inhabitants of Palestine to evacuate it and to leave for the bordering Arab countries, after having sown terror among them...
Since 1948 we have been demanding the return of the refugees to their homes. But we ourselves are the ones who encouraged them to leave...We have brought destruction upon a million Arab refugees, by calling upon them and pleading with them to leave their land, their homes, their work and business..."
[By Khaled al-`Azm, who served as Prime Minister of Syria in 1948 and 1949, wrote in his memoirs (published in Beirut, 1973, Part 1, pp. 386-387) ]

He also said:
"Since 1948 it is we who demanded the return of refugees… while it is we who made them to leave… We brought disaster upon… Arab refugees, by inviting them and bringing pressure to bear upon them to leave… We have rendered them dispossessed…
We have accustomed them to begging… We have participated in lowering their moral and social level… Then we exploited them in executing crimes of murder, arson, and throwing bombs upon… men, women and children - all this in service of political purposes…".

"The fact that there are these refugees is the direct consequence of the act of the Arab states in opposing partition and the Jewish state. The Arab states agree upon this policy unanimously and they must share in the solution of the problem."
- Emile Ghoury, secretary of the Palestinian Arab Higher Committee, in an interview with the Beirut Telegraph Sept. 6, 1948.
"The Arab state which had encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies, have failed to keep their promise to help these refugees."
- The Jordanian daily newspaper Falastin, Feb. 19, 1949.

"Who brought the Palestinians to Lebanon as refugees, suffering now from the malign attitude of newspapers and communal leaders, who have neither honor nor conscience? Who brought them over in dire straits and penniless, after they lost their honor? The Arab states, and Lebanon amongst them, did it."
- The Beirut Muslim weekly Kul-Shay, Aug. 19, 1951.

"The 15th May, 1948, arrived ... On that day the mufti of Jerusalem appealed to the Arabs of Palestine to leave the country, because the Arab armies were about to enter and fight in their stead."
- The Cairo daily Akhbar el Yom, Oct. 12, 1963.

"For the flight and fall of the other villages it is our leaders who are responsible because of their dissemination of rumors exaggerating Jewish crimes and describing them as atrocities in order to inflame the Arabs ... By spreading rumors of Jewish atrocities, killings of women and children etc., they instilled fear and terror in the hearts of the Arabs in Palestine, until they fled leaving their homes and properties to the enemy."
- The Jordanian daily newspaper Al Urdun, April 9, 1953.

How did these countries communicate these calls to the Palestinians?

Smoke signals and drums. Pigeons and jungle telegraph. Oh, and E-mail.

 

[irosie91]

jerk-----MORNING PRAYERS AT THE MOSQUE

 

[P F Tinmore]

How did these countries communicate these calls to the Palestinians?

Why don't you ask them?

Hey: Here's more- from an Arab web site too, and it's the paradigm of the Arab lie- Deir Yassin:

Interviews: 50th Anniversary Of Deir Yassin Massacre

In retrospect, Palestinians of today admit that one of the most terrible mistakes they made back in 1948 was to over-report the details of the Deir Yassin massacre. "The goal was to mobilize Arab support for the Palestinians who were slaughtered by the Zionists but what really happened was that more and more Palestinians became scared and left their country," said Hazem Nusseibeh, a leading Palestinian figure who currently lives in Jordan. In 1948 he was among the key figures of the city of Jerusalem.

..."True, there was exchange of fire with the Jews. Prior to the attack, they used to come to the village and distribute leaflets calling for the establishment of friendly and brotherly relations with us offering a formula of 'do not hit us, we won't hit you.' Our youths confronted them and did not listen to them. Our youths used to go out to the eastern side of the village and beat up whatever Jew they saw."

...Mohammed Asaad Radwan Al Yassini, 70, who currently lives in the Old City of Jerusalem, confirmed that some of the men were dressed in women's outfits.

...Did they use speakers and what did they say?

"They called on us to surrender, to throw our weapons and to save ourselves. But we did not imagine them breaking into the village.

...Ali Yousef Jaber, Abu Yousef, is also 70 years old. He lives in Am'ari refugee camp near Ramallah. Excerpts below:

"I would like to stress on the fact that no rape incidents took place. That was part of a big lie that some of the Arabs and some of our leaders invented but were refuted by our villagers. I was among a group of people who went to Saad Eddin Al Aref to talk to him about this. He told us he wanted to frame them and attribute to them a brutal crime. I said to him: if you want to frame them, do not use Deir Yassin, or our women. Do not attribute to us something that never happened, otherwise this is infamy that our village and its people do not deserve...

Interviews: 50th anniversary of Deir Yassin massacre

From your link:

Have you, yourself, seen any of the reported shootings at civilians?

"I saw them shooting people in front of us. They said their commander, the Haganah commander, was shot, and they started spraying people with bullets. They killed the 36 Zahran family members as they sprayed with bullets every person they saw in every house they entered.

Did the Jews call on the villagers with loudspeakers?

"Yes they did. They said we either leave or they would kill us. They used shock bombs, the explosion of which sounded like a mine blast, or a cannon shell blast. They used regular bombs, but their bombs were not that sophisticated."

"Once they entered the village, fighting became very heavy in the eastern side and later it spread to other parts, to the quarry, to the village center until it reached the western edge. The battle was on three fronts, east, south and north. The Jews used all sorts of automatic weapons, tanks, missiles, and cannons. They used to enter houses and kill women and children indiscriminately. The youths in the village fought bravely against them and the fighting continued until it was around 15:30 afternoon. We had no aid or support from any party. They took about 40 prisoners from the village. But after the battle was over, they took them to the quarry where they shot them dead and threw their bodies in the quarry.

So, who told these people to leave?

 

[MJB12741]

I don't understand those Zionists in Israel. They say they want peace, so what do they do? They make peace offerings to Palestinians of all people, build a security fence & concede land to the Palestinians to keep them captives in Israel when all the Palestinians want is to be from from Israel. Face it you Zionists, not once has Israel even tried to free the Palestinians back to their indigenous homelands. And then those Zionists just can't seem to understand why they are thanked with jihads, intifadas & rocket missiles for what they are doing to the Palestinians. Don't that beat all?

 

[YKohen]

So, who told these people to leave?[/QUOTE]

Their leadership.

"Long before the end of the mandate, between January and April, 48, practically all my Arab Palestinian staff of some 200 men and women and all of the 1800 labor force had left Haifa in spite of every possible effort to assume them of their safety if they stayed."

[Harry C. Stebbens, who was in an official position in the British Mandatory Government in Palestine in 1947-48 wrote in the London Evening Standard (Friday, 10 January 1969) ]

"The Arab States encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies."
[Editorial, Falastin, February 19, 1949 (Amman) ]

"We will smash the country with our guns and obliterate every place the Jews seek shelter in. The Arabs should conduct their wives and children to safe areas until the fighting has died down."

[Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Said, as quoted by Nimr el Hawari (the former Commander of the Palestine Arab Youth Organization) in his book "Sir Am Nakbah" (The Secret Behind the Disaster), 1952, Nazareth]

The Arab governments told us: get out so that we can get in. So we got out, but they did not get in." from the Jordanian daily newspaper Ad Difaa, September 6, 1954.

"It must not be forgotten that the Arab Higher Committee encourage the refugees' flight from their homes in Jaffa, Haifa, and Jerusalem." Broadcast by the Near East Arabic Broadcasting Station on April 3, 1949 (Cyprus)

"The first group of our fifth columnists consists of those who abandon their houses and business and go to live elsewhere..at the first sign of trouble they take to their heels to escape sharing the burden of struggle." Editorial, Ash Sha'ah, January 30, 1948 (Haifa)

This wholesale exodus was due partly to the belief of the Arabs, encouraged by the boasting of an unrealistic Arab press and the irresponsible utterances of some of the Arab leaders that it could be only a matter of some weeks before the Jews were defeated by the armies of the Arab States and the Palestinian Arabs enabled to re-enter and retake possession of their country." Edward Atiyah (Secretary of the Arab League Office in London), as quoted in The Arabs", p. 183 (London 1955)

"I do not want to impugn anybody but only to help the refugees. The fact that there are these refugees is the direct consequence of the action of the Arab States in opposing partition and the Jewish State. The Arab States agreed upon this policy unanimously and they must share in the solution of the problem." Emil Ghoury (Secretary of the Arab Higher Committee) as quoted in the Daily Telegraph, September 6, 1948 (Beirut)

"The Secretary General of the Arab League, Azzam Pasha, assured the Arab peoples that the occupation of Palestine and of Tel Aviv would be as simple as a military promenade..He pointed out that they were already on the frontiers and that all the millions of Jews had spent on land and economic development would be easy booty, for it would be a simple matter to throw Jews into the Mediterranean..Brotherly advice was given to the Arabs of Palestine to leave their land, homes and property and to stay temporarily in neighboring fraternal states, lest the guns of the invading Arab armies mow them down." Habib Issa, in the daily US published Lebanese newspaper Al Hoda, June 8 1951 (New York)

In Haifa on 27 April 1948, the Arab National Committee refused to sign a truce, reporting in a memorandum to the Arab League Governments, "when the delegation entered the conference room it proudly refused to sign the truce and asked that the evacuation of the Arab population and their transfer to neighboring Arab countries be facilitated...The military and civil authorities and the Jewish representatives expressed their profound regret.

The mayor of Haifa (Mr. Shabtai Levi) adjourned the meeting with a passionate appeal to the Arab population to reconsider its decision"

Jordanian daily, Filastin (Feb. 19, 1949):

"The Arab States...encouraged the Palestinians to leave their homes, temporarily, not interfering with the invading Arab armies."

Khaled al-Azam, Syrian Prime Minister in 1949 (memoirs, 1973):

"We brought destruction upon the refugees, by calling on them to leave their homes."

London Economist (Oct. 2, 1948):

"The most potent of the factors [in the flight] were announcements made by the Palestinian-Arab Higher Committee, urging all Haifa Arabs to quit, intimating that those remaining would be regarded as renegades." Arab over-confidence prior to the war (600,000 Jews vs. 27, 000,000 Arabs) was crashed by defeat, intensifying the flight of Arabs."

"Arab leaders were responsible for the [Arab] flight, disseminating exaggerated rumors of Jewish atrocities, in order to incite the Arabs, thus instilling fear in the hearts of the Palestinians."

(Jordanian daily, al-Urdun, April 9, 1953).

Ismayil Safwat, Commander of Palestinian Operations (March, 1948):

"The Jews haven't attacked any Arab village, unless attacked first."

 

[MJB12741]

The Arab countries told the Palestinians to leave. And Israel gets the blame. That too is part of Palestinian mentality at its very best.

So, who told these people to leave?

Their leadership.

"Long before the end of the mandate, between January and April, 48, practically all my Arab Palestinian staff of some 200 men and women and all of the 1800 labor force had left Haifa in spite of every possible effort to assume them of their safety if they stayed."

[Harry C. Stebbens, who was in an official position in the British Mandatory Government in Palestine in 1947-48 wrote in the London Evening Standard (Friday, 10 January 1969) ]

"The Arab States encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies."
[Editorial, Falastin, February 19, 1949 (Amman) ]

"We will smash the country with our guns and obliterate every place the Jews seek shelter in. The Arabs should conduct their wives and children to safe areas until the fighting has died down."

[Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Said, as quoted by Nimr el Hawari (the former Commander of the Palestine Arab Youth Organization) in his book "Sir Am Nakbah" (The Secret Behind the Disaster), 1952, Nazareth]

The Arab governments told us: get out so that we can get in. So we got out, but they did not get in." from the Jordanian daily newspaper Ad Difaa, September 6, 1954.

"It must not be forgotten that the Arab Higher Committee encourage the refugees' flight from their homes in Jaffa, Haifa, and Jerusalem." Broadcast by the Near East Arabic Broadcasting Station on April 3, 1949 (Cyprus)

"The first group of our fifth columnists consists of those who abandon their houses and business and go to live elsewhere..at the first sign of trouble they take to their heels to escape sharing the burden of struggle." Editorial, Ash Sha'ah, January 30, 1948 (Haifa)

This wholesale exodus was due partly to the belief of the Arabs, encouraged by the boasting of an unrealistic Arab press and the irresponsible utterances of some of the Arab leaders that it could be only a matter of some weeks before the Jews were defeated by the armies of the Arab States and the Palestinian Arabs enabled to re-enter and retake possession of their country." Edward Atiyah (Secretary of the Arab League Office in London), as quoted in The Arabs", p. 183 (London 1955)

"I do not want to impugn anybody but only to help the refugees. The fact that there are these refugees is the direct consequence of the action of the Arab States in opposing partition and the Jewish State. The Arab States agreed upon this policy unanimously and they must share in the solution of the problem." Emil Ghoury (Secretary of the Arab Higher Committee) as quoted in the Daily Telegraph, September 6, 1948 (Beirut)

"The Secretary General of the Arab League, Azzam Pasha, assured the Arab peoples that the occupation of Palestine and of Tel Aviv would be as simple as a military promenade..He pointed out that they were already on the frontiers and that all the millions of Jews had spent on land and economic development would be easy booty, for it would be a simple matter to throw Jews into the Mediterranean..Brotherly advice was given to the Arabs of Palestine to leave their land, homes and property and to stay temporarily in neighboring fraternal states, lest the guns of the invading Arab armies mow them down." Habib Issa, in the daily US published Lebanese newspaper Al Hoda, June 8 1951 (New York)

In Haifa on 27 April 1948, the Arab National Committee refused to sign a truce, reporting in a memorandum to the Arab League Governments, "when the delegation entered the conference room it proudly refused to sign the truce and asked that the evacuation of the Arab population and their transfer to neighboring Arab countries be facilitated...The military and civil authorities and the Jewish representatives expressed their profound regret.

The mayor of Haifa (Mr. Shabtai Levi) adjourned the meeting with a passionate appeal to the Arab population to reconsider its decision"

Jordanian daily, Filastin (Feb. 19, 1949):

"The Arab States...encouraged the Palestinians to leave their homes, temporarily, not interfering with the invading Arab armies."

Khaled al-Azam, Syrian Prime Minister in 1949 (memoirs, 1973):

"We brought destruction upon the refugees, by calling on them to leave their homes."

London Economist (Oct. 2, 1948):

"The most potent of the factors [in the flight] were announcements made by the Palestinian-Arab Higher Committee, urging all Haifa Arabs to quit, intimating that those remaining would be regarded as renegades." Arab over-confidence prior to the war (600,000 Jews vs. 27, 000,000 Arabs) was crashed by defeat, intensifying the flight of Arabs."

"Arab leaders were responsible for the [Arab] flight, disseminating exaggerated rumors of Jewish atrocities, in order to incite the Arabs, thus instilling fear in the hearts of the Palestinians."

(Jordanian daily, al-Urdun, April 9, 1953).

Ismayil Safwat, Commander of Palestinian Operations (March, 1948):

"The Jews haven't attacked any Arab village, unless attacked first."[/QUOTE]

 

[P F Tinmore]

However, Karsh based his observations on a "British Police Report" of 26 April sent after the British forces had evacuated from Haifa and the Jewish forces had taken over the port of Haifa and the Palestinian population had already fled. The British report of 22 April at the height of the fight for Haifa portrays a different picture.[47] Furthermore, two independent studies, which analysed CIA and BBC intercepts of radio broadcasts from the region, concluded that no orders or instructions were given by the Arab Higher Committee.[48]

According to Morris, "The Haganah mortar attacks of 21–22 April [on Haifa] were primarily designed to break Arab morale in order to bring about a swift collapse of resistance and speedy surrender. [...] But clearly the offensive, and especially the mortaring, precipitated the exodus. The three-inch mortars opened up on the market square [where there was] a great crowd [...] a great panic took hold. The multitude burst into the port, pushed aside the policemen, charged the boats and began to flee the town, as the official Haganah history later put it".[10]:191, 200 According to Pappé,[18]:96 this mortar barrage was deliberately aimed at civilians to precipitate their flight from Haifa.

The Haganah broadcast a warning to Arabs in Haifa on 21 April: "that unless they sent away 'infiltrated dissidents' they would be advised to evacuate all women and children, because they would be strongly attacked from now on".[49]

1948 Palestinian exodus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[irosie91]

so? there was a war going on ----and Haganah issued a WARING to a civilian population caught in the middle------to leave. In fact---such was the policy of BOTH the Haganah and the IRGUN which is why the brits were warned to evacuate the King David Hotel ----does this custom confuse you---tinnie----because you prefer the --sudden SLIT THE THROATS OF THE CHILDREN method of your allies?----the method they used in Hebron and in Jerusalem and in Maalot etc etc etc etc???? gee---I have always found the gentleman manner of war-----SHOOTING AT EACH OTHER IN RANKS ----that brits seem to like to be strange----BUT YOUR FAVORED METHODS ----truly fascinate me No wonder you love poison nail bombs and the bomb on slut ass method of "war" ------so much more efficient than ANNOUNCING ---"please evacuate"

 

[YKohen]

According to Morris...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba

"Benny Morris and the Reign of Error" (The Middle East Quarterly, MARCH 1999 • VOLUME VI: NUMBER 1)

CONCLUSION

A deep-rooted and pervasive distortion lies at the heart of the revisionists' rewriting of Israel's early history. A close inspection shows Morris's claim that the Zionist movement and the State of Israel are "among the more accomplished practitioners of this strange craft"71 of record falsification to be totally false. If anything, it shows that Morris himself is a master at that very same "strange craft." Morris not only fails to show rewriting by the authorities but he himself is the one who systematically falsifies evidence. Indeed, there is scarcely a document that he does not twist.

This casts serious doubt on the validity of his entire work. For, if the veracity of one's quotes and factual assertions cannot be taken for granted, then the entire raison d'être of the historical discourse will have been lost. It also fits the psychological pattern of projection: a falsifier tends to see in others a mirror image of himself. In the colloquial, it takes one to know one.

Regrettably, Morris's distortions in the article under consideration are neither a fluke nor an exception. As I have sought to demonstrate elsewhere, they typify the New Historians' whole approach.72 Lacking evidence, they invent an Israeli history in the image of their own choosing.

 

[irosie91]

benny morris has been debunked many times------I have a vague memory that he withdrew from some of his early writings Sensationalism
in writing ----with a kind of HYPER HYPER critical approach has been
a parlor game amongst jews in Israel ------publications began
amongst the jews in palestine. Islamo nazis exploit the results of that game

 

[MJB12741]

Thank you for bringing up Benny Morris. Yeah that Benny Morris sure is pro Palestinian terrorist like you are, right Tinmore?

Left-Wing Historian: Arab Hate Prevents Peace - Middle East - News - Israel National News

However, Karsh based his observations on a "British Police Report" of 26 April sent after the British forces had evacuated from Haifa and the Jewish forces had taken over the port of Haifa and the Palestinian population had already fled. The British report of 22 April at the height of the fight for Haifa portrays a different picture.[47] Furthermore, two independent studies, which analysed CIA and BBC intercepts of radio broadcasts from the region, concluded that no orders or instructions were given by the Arab Higher Committee.[48]

According to Morris, "The Haganah mortar attacks of 21–22 April [on Haifa] were primarily designed to break Arab morale in order to bring about a swift collapse of resistance and speedy surrender. [...] But clearly the offensive, and especially the mortaring, precipitated the exodus. The three-inch mortars opened up on the market square [where there was] a great crowd [...] a great panic took hold. The multitude burst into the port, pushed aside the policemen, charged the boats and began to flee the town, as the official Haganah history later put it".[10]:191, 200 According to Pappé,[18]:96 this mortar barrage was deliberately aimed at civilians to precipitate their flight from Haifa.

The Haganah broadcast a warning to Arabs in Haifa on 21 April: "that unless they sent away 'infiltrated dissidents' they would be advised to evacuate all women and children, because they would be strongly attacked from now on".[49]

1948 Palestinian exodus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia