Ethnic cleansing 1948, Response to Nakba

Jews were ready to accept the 1947 UN Partition plan to split the land peacefully, Arabs not only rejected it but then declared war on Israel with the openly stated genocidal goal to “throw the Jews into the sea”, for you to now say Israel expelled people is ignoring the historical context, because it was a war Arabs declared, it was war whereby Arabs wanted to ethnic cleanse Jews. So it is Arabs who are also responsible for the unfortunate casualties of that war they started.

6000 Jews were killed and 70,000 Jews were displaced in that war, including tens of thousands of Jews expelled from Jerusalem by the Jordanian army. Upon its capture by the Arab Legion, the Jewish Quarter of the Old City was destroyed and its residents expelled.

800,000 Jews were also displaced by force out of Arab lands from the 1950s – 70s. You do not hear Jews crying about this crime as they quickly assimilated those refugees into citizens, in contrast the Arab response to their refugees was to put them in camps and discriminate against them to use as pawns against Israel

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APRIL 23, 1948 Jamal Husseini, acting chairman of the Palestine Arab Higher Committee (AHC), told the UN Security Council: “The Arabs did not want to submit to a truce … They preferred to abandon their homes, belongings and everything they possessed.”

ON SEPTEMBER 6, 1948, the Beirut Daily Telegraph quoted Emil Ghory, secretary of the AHC, as saying: “The fact that there are those 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.”

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No one would have been killed, displaced or lost any land if Palestinian terrorists had not tried to exterminate the Jews.

The day after the UN Partition Resolution in November 1947, Palestinian terrorists started a genocidal war to exterminate the Jews. Haj Amin el-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem – “I declare a holy war, my Muslim brothers! Murder the Jews! Murder them all!”

The war started with Palestinians attacking a Jewish bus driving on the Coastal Plain near Kfar Sirkin killing five and wounding others. Half an hour later they ambushed a second bus from Hadera, killing two more. Arab snipers attacked Jewish buses in Jerusalem and Haifa.

Wars create refugees!

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The Arab Legion was already in Palestine and was involved in the fighting around the Etzion block prior to the end of the Mandate.

The first casualties after the adoption of Resolution 181(II) by the General Assembly were passengers on a Jewish bus driving on the Coastal Plain near Kfar Sirkin on 30 November. An eight-man gang from Jaffa ambushed the bus killing five and wounding others. Half an hour later they ambushed a second bus, southbound from Hadera, killing two more. Arab snipers attacked Jewish buses in Jerusalem and Haifa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947%E2%80%931948_civil_war_in_Mandatory_Palestine

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Newspaper showing Arab intentions to go to war after 1947 UN Partition plan https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/134238148

Trygve Lie, the UN Secretary General:

|| From the first week of December 1947, disorder in Palestine had begun to mount. The Arabs repeatedly had asserted that they would resist partition by force. They seemed to be determined to drive that point home by assaults upon the Jewish community of Palestine.

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East Jerusalem was Islamized during the Jordanian annexation of the West Bank between 1948–1967, as Jordan sought to alter the demographics and landscape of the city to enhance its Muslim character at the expense of its Jewish and Christian ones. At this time, all Jewish residents were expelled, and restrictions were imposed on the Christian population that led many to leave the city. Ghada Hashem Talhami states that during its nineteen years of rule, the government of Jordan took actions to accentuate the spiritual Islamic status of Jerusalem. Raphael Israeli, an Israeli professor, described these measures as “Arabization”.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Islamization_of_Jerusalem

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As a teenager in Iraq my Jewish grandmother watched her best friend raped and killed and another friend shot along her 8 siblings and her mother.

150,000 Jews lost everything and were forced to leave to Israel, the only country to accept them.

My father and his family were part of 105,000 Tunisian Jews who were forced to leave the country after decades of abuse + violence.

But you won’t hear the stories of oppression and ethnic cleansing of 850,000 Jews from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). You won’t hear about the many Jews who died when their countries turned on them, nor about the lives and communities we once knew.

For many Mizrahi (MENA) Jews the world never recognized our collective trauma and it’s always sidelined.

Hen Mazzig

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Arabs left Israel in 1948 because of leadership’s promise that it would be temporary.
Arab refugee Sadek Mufid: ”We headed first from Dir al-Qasi [northern Israel] ‎to Rmaich [Lebanon], considering what they (Arab leaders) said at the time: ‎‎“By Allah, in a week or two, you will return to Palestine.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1THQ94yF1Ng

A Palestinian man is interviewed on the official Palestinian Authority television station. He says that the Arab radio stations repetitively kept telling the Palestinians to leave the frontline for at most two weeks, and then the Arab regimes will bring the Palestinians back to Ein-Kerem, near Jerusalem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuGqpFxogRg