Posted on 03/21/2015 2:27:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
“One million Palestinians were expelled by Israel from 1947–49.”
FACT
The Palestinians left their homes in 1947–49 for a variety of reasons. Thousands of wealthy Arabs left in anticipation of a war, thousands more responded to Arab leaders’ calls to get out of the way of the advancing armies, a handful were expelled, but most simply fled to avoid being caught in the cross fire of a battle.
Many Arabs claim that 800,000 to 1,000,000 Palestinians became refugees in 1947–49. The last census taken by the British in 1945 found approximately 1.2 million permanent Arab residents in all of Palestine. A 1949 census conducted by the government of Israel counted 160,000 Arabs living in the new state after the war. In 1947, a total of 809,100 Arabs lived in the same area.1 This meant no more than 650,000 Palestinian Arabs could have become refugees. A report by the UN Mediator on Palestine arrived at an even lower refugee figure—472,000. 2
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E.Plur..... Thanks for the reminder.
Thx for this.
Thanx 4 posting.
Most excellent information. Too many have ignored or forgotten (or maybe never bothered to learn) about the history of the founding of the modern state of Israel. Too many think that ‘Palestinians’ actually existed at the time when in fact these were people mostly expelled from other Arab countries that were living in the Trans-Jordan.
The UN resolution ‘creating’ Israel also included a two state solution. All those yobs had to do was form a government and claim their land. But that was not what they wanted and the Arab world in its hatred of Jews attacked to try and drive them out. May the future efforts have the same results
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