Propaganda: Israel committed Ethnic Cleansing
There has been no ethnic cleansing. The population of Palestinians on the land has gone from 500k in 1915 to over 6.3 million today in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel.
Ethnic cleansing of 800k Jews from Arab lands from 1940-60 : http://bit.ly/2qhPsj5
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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.
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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Why do you ignore the genocidal ethnic cleansing goals of the Arabs in 1948 ?
Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, the Secretary-General of the Arab League from 1945 to 1952, declared in 1947 that, were a war to take place with the proposed establishment of a Jewish state, it would lead to “a war of extermination and momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacre and the Crusades.”
https://www.meforum.org/3082/azzam-genocide-threat
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A percentage of Arabs left the land on their own accord:
Historian Benny Morris wrote:
“It is clear from the new documentation that the Palestinian leadership in principle opposed the Arab flight from December 1947 to April 1948, while at the same time encouraging or ordering a great many villages to send away their women, children and old folk, to be out of harm’s way. Whole villages, especially in the Jewish- dominated coastal plain, were also ordered to evacuate. There is no doubt that, throughout, the departure of dependents lowered the morale of the remaining males and paved the way for their eventual departure as well.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jan/14/israel
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.”
No one would have been killed, displaced or lost any land if the Arab armies and irregulars 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.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/134238148
Wars create refugees!
