No sham. Leave Palestinians out of it, they are not soveriegn to Isreal, are they?
Arab societies are not democratic. Jews are not the richest class of people as a whole.
Just drawing a comparison to Arab states.
Jewish leaders didn't expell others. Read the sourced data I offered. Provide sourced data to the contrary.
They remained in Israel and yet they were refugees from Israel?
I honestly don't know what I can do for you anymore. This is what I gave you in detail and yet you continue to ignore the concrete data. LOOK:
http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/refugees.html#howman <--- LINK
"The Arabs did not want to submit to a truce they rather preferred to abandon their homes, their belongings and everything they possessed in the world and leave the town. This is in fact what they did." <--- CLAIM
Jamal Husseini, Acting Chairman of the Palestine Arab Higher Committee, told to the United Nations Security Council, quoted in the UNSC Official Records (N. 62), April 23, 1948, p. 14 <--- SOURCED REFERENCE
http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/refugees.html#howman <--- LINK
"The refugees were confident that their absence would not last long, and that they would return within a week or two. Their leaders had promised them that the Arab armies would crush the 'Zionist gangs' very quickly and that there was no need for panic or fear of a long exile." <---CLAIM
Monsignor George Hakim, Greek Catholic Bishop of Galilee, in the Beirut newspaper Sada al Janub, August 16, 1948 <-- SOURCED REFERENCE
http://www.yahoodi.com/peace/refugees.html#howman <--- LINK
· "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." <--- CLAIM
- Edward Atiyah (then Secretary of the Arab League Office in London) in The Arabs (London, 1955), p. 183 <-- SOURCED REFERENCE
Read them all, don't waste my time by ignoring the entire list. It's historical documentation pointing to documented statements by very credible parties to the conflict.
I've given you more than enough links to back my point of view and you just skipped on by as if your own opinion (or mine) remains the issue.
I spent that time for YOU, and you simply chose to spite me. That really pisses me off.
Civil discourse on the subject requires you to address the data I've offered you, and some effort. I gave you this in good faith with the understanding that you would either dispute or accept it. Rather than that, you contined to claim what remained your sole opinion in contraction to this list. "What you say" remains the sole valid source in the issue. That is plain rude, my friend.
Read through the list of sourced statements I offered and understand I will indeed concede that forced eviction did occur in more than one case, although mostly as a minority exception and more often than not, with good reason.
Now we're getting somewhere.
So the Jews who left their homes in Israel were allowed to return to their homes in Israel? That makes no sense.
The Muslims who left their homes, despite the guarantees of their safety as long as they remained peacefull, did so under the promise of victory and the destruction of the Jewish state, alone with their murder and/or removal, seizing all of their homes and seeking their destruction. It's all there in the stated sources.
I can't source the statistics for those males who left Jewish land and fought against the Jews alongside their fellow Muslims, but I'm sure it happened, and often. Actions supported by their families. This is simply Islamic tradition.
And those Arabs who stayed were given full citizenship as promised. The hell with those who left. That's not apartheid, but common sense. It's also morally correct.
Stop right there.
What link? Is there a documented list? Why were they sneaking across? We're they shot and killed? We're they wearing any explosive vest.
And one more question, how many are left in Palestine who actually lived in Israel at all? Maybe a several thousand. Just because they all fucked liked rabbits and left a few million decendents for Arafat doesn't mean they automatically get rights to live with the Jews their ancestors once sought to destory. They get ZERO immigration rights. Whatever they want to create for themselves, in a large space of their own, that's their problem. Some kid fresh from Palestinian style summer camp has no "fundamental right" just because their dead grandaddy once fought the Jews.
Downright whacky lingo.
Isreal is conducting "ethnic cleansing" of ... the million Israeli Arab Muslim citizens? Of course not. This is still about immigration restrictions into a soveriegn nation.
It seems that America is conducting "ethnic cleansing" of North Korea because we refuse to accept any NK national into our nation. We're like Serbia, right?