| faraznaeem: what about the approximately 1 million Jews who were kicked out of Arab countries around the same time? or the fact that many Palestinians left their homes on their free will as the war approached (Joseph Schechtman, The Refugee in the World, (NY: A.S. Barnes and Co., 1963), p. 184.) or were encouraged to leave by Arab leaders:
The Economist, a frequent critic of the Zionists, reported on October 2, 1948: “Of the 62,000 Arabs who formerly lived in Haifa not more than 5,000 or 6,000 remained. Various factors influenced their decision to seek safety in flight. There is but little doubt that the most potent of the factors were the announcements made over the air by the Higher Arab Executive, urging the Arabs to quit....It was clearly intimated that those Arabs who remained in Haifa and accepted Jewish protection would be regarded as renegades.”
On January 30, 1948, the Jaffa newspaper, Ash Sha’ab, reported: “The first of our fifth-column consists of those who abandon their houses and businesses and go to live elsewhere....At the first signs of trouble they take to their heels to escape sharing the burden of struggle.”(Ash Sha’’ab, (January 30, 1948); or
Another Jaffa paper, As Sarih (March 30, 1948) excoriated Arab villagers near Tel Aviv for “bringing down disgrace on us all by ‘’abandoning the villages.'" (As Sarih, (March 30, 1948).) |
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