A collection of historical quotations relating to the Arab refugees: Collected ~by Moshe Kohn ON 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..." ON OCTOBER 2, 1948, the London Economist reported, in an eyewitness account of the flight of Haifa's Arabs: "There is little doubt that the most potent of the factors [in the flight] were the announcements made over the air by the Arab Higher Executive urging all Arabs in Haifa to quit ... And it was clearly intimated that those Arabs who remained in Haifa and accepted Jewish protection would be regarded as renegades." On February 19, 1949, THE JORDANIAN daily Falastin wrote : "The Arab states... encouraged the Palestinian Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies." ON JUNE 8, 1951, Habib Issa, secretary-general of the Arab League, wrote in the New York Lebanese daily al-Hoda that in 1948, Azzam Pasha, then League secretary, had "assured the Arab peoples that the occupation of Palestine and of Tel Aviv would be as simple as a military promenade ... Brotherly advice was given to the Arabs of Palestine to leave their land, homes and property, and to stay temporarily in neighboring fraternal states." ON APRIL 9, 1953, the Jordanian daily al-Urdun quoted a refugee, Yunes Ahmed Assad, formerly of Deir Yassin, as saying: "For the flight and fall of the other villages, it is our leaders who are responsible, because of the dissemination of rumors exaggerating Jewish crimes and describing them as atrocities in order to inflame the Arabs ... they instilled fear and terror into the hearts of the Arabs of Palestine until they fled, leaving their homes and property to the enemy." ANOTHER refugee told the Jordanian daily a-Difaa on September 6, 1954: "The Arab governments told us, 'Get out so that we can get in.' So we got out, but they did not get in." THE PRIME Minister of Syria in 1948, Khaled al-Azem, in his memoirs, published in 1973, listed what he thought were the reasons for the Arab failure in 1948: " ... the fifth factor was the call by the Arab governments to the inhabitants of Palestine to evacuate it and leave for the bordering Arab countries ... We brought destruction upon a million Arab refugees by calling on them and pleading with them to leave their land." "FOLLOWING a visit to refugees in Gaza, a British diplomat reported the following: 'But while they express no bitterness against the Jews...they speak with the utmost bitterness of the Egyptians and other Arab states: 'We know who our enemies are,' they will say, and they are referring to their Arab brothers who, they declare, persuaded them unnecessarily to leave their homes." - IN THE MARCH 1976 issue of Falastin a-Thaura, then the official journal of the Beirut-based PLO, Mahmud Abbas ("Abu Mazen"), PLO spokesman, wrote: "The Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny but, instead, they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate and to leave their homeland, and threw them into prisons similar to the ghettos in which the Jews used to live." British Foreign Office Document #371/75342/XC/A/4991 [From "Revising or Devising Israel's History" by Prof. Shlomo Slonim in Jewish Action, Summer 5760/2000, Vol. 60 #4] This page was produced by Joseph E. Katz Middle Eastern Political and Religious History Analyst Brooklyn, New York
A report from the military intelligence SHAI of the Haganah entitled "The emigration of Palestinian Arabs in the period 1/12/1947-1/6/1948," dated 30 June 1948, affirms that: ....73% for departures caused directly by the Israelis. In addition, the report attributes 22% of the departures to "fears" and "a crisis of confidence" affecting the Palestinian population. As for Arab calls for flight, these were reckoned to be significant in only 5% of cases. Following the emergence of the Palestinian refugee problem after the 1948 Arab–Israeli war, many Palestinians tried, in one way or another, to return to their homes. For some time these practices continued to embarrass the Israeli authorities until they passed the Prevention of Infiltration Law, which defines offenses of armed and non-armed infiltration to Israel and from Israel to hostile neighboring countries.[85] According to Arab Israeli writer Sabri Jiryis, the purpose of the law was to prevent Palestinians from returning to Israel, those who did so being regarded as infiltrators. Among the more important initial laws was article 125 of the "Defence (Emergency) Regulations"[87]. According to Kirshbaum, the Law has as effect that "no one is allowed in or out without permission from the Israeli Military." "This regulation has been used to exclude a land owner from his own land so that it could be judged as unoccupied. The Land Acquisition law legalized expropriations (retroactively in many cases) for military purposes or for the establishment of (Jewish) settlements. The law allows the Government to claim the property of lands which are not in the possession of its owner as of 1 April 1952. Source: wiki And that is how the Jew apartheid state thieved the land of the land of ethnically cleansed Arabs, while banning them to return due to their race.
The Jews are in their <ancient Homeland> friend... I came to the conclusion that you cannot read Hebrew ordinances as you feel discriminated against... the Arabs in Israel are squatters, and the majority <CANNOT> prove ownership of a parcel of land they are sitting on.
And this is how history is re-written - with quotes taken out of context, heavily edited wiki articles, and assertions based on unproven premises. The SHAI report is about a small part of the refugees, less than half. Don't believe me? Read Benny Morris. He clearly states that most refugees in the second wave fled because their leaders told them to. Pfftt. Many Arabs received land from the British during the Mandate (page 6), they didn't own it for the thousands of years claimed by some. Their incredible readiness to leave the land they supposedly owned since time immemorial, as opposed to the steadfastness of Jews who stayed and fought for the land, proves that Jews' ties to Palestine have always been stronger.
Negative. According to the Jews, they thieved it from the Canaanites. Nope. The Palestinians have been living there since ancient times. They just adopted the Arab culture and language aka integrated.
The report, and I quoted that part even, says EXACTLY what part wave it is about. As for the October wave Rabin wrote in his memoirs: What would they do with the 50,000 civilians in the two cities… Not even Ben-Gurion could offer a solution, and during the discussion at operation headquarters, he remained silent, as was his habit in such situations. Clearly, we could not leave [Lydda's] hostile and armed populace in our rear, where it could endanger the supply route [to the troops who were] advancing eastward… Allon repeated the question: What is to be done with the population? Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture that said: Drive them out!… "Driving out" is a term with a harsh ring… Psychologically, this was one of the most difficult actions we undertook. The population of [Lydda] did not leave willingly. There was no way of avoiding the use of force and warning shots in order to make the inhabitants march the 10 to 15 miles to the point where they met up with the legion. Yitzhak Rabin is a war criminal for ethnic cleansing Arabs, by being part of the idea of the Lydda Death March. And indeed. Let's read Benny Morris and what he has to say about: October 1948 – March 1949 Most of the Palestinian exodus was due to a clear, direct cause: expulsion and deliberate harassment, as Morris writes "commanders were clearly bent on driving out the population in the area they were conquering.
NOOOOOOOOO the Arabs are the ones that thieved the Land of the Jews since time immemorial... The Jews absorbed/intermarried with the Canaanites... and through the years the blood of the Canaanite is flowing in Jewish veins... so it makes the Jews the real owners of that Land. Baloney!!! they are recent arrivals when the Ottoman Turks imported them to work/till the land of the Turkish Effendis, and during the Mandate the British imported them to build roads, small Airports, military camps and so on and they never returned home. Ancient times is a wet dream that most of you (brainwashed individuals) still fantasize about. - - - Updated - - - NOOOOOOOOO the Arabs are the ones that thieved the Land of the Jews since time immemorial... The Jews absorbed/intermarried with the Canaanites... and through the years the blood of the Canaanite is flowing in Jewish veins... so it makes the Jews the real owners of that Land. Baloney!!! they are recent arrivals when the Ottoman Turks imported them to work/till the land of the Turkish Effendis, and during the Mandate the British imported them to build roads, small Airports, military camps and so on and they never returned home. Ancient times is a wet dream that most of you (brainwashed individuals) still fantasize about. - - - Updated - - - NOOOOOOOOO the Arabs are the ones that thieved the Land of the Jews since time immemorial... The Jews absorbed/intermarried with the Canaanites... and through the years the blood of the Canaanite is flowing in Jewish veins... so it makes the Jews the real owners of that Land. Baloney!!! they are recent arrivals when the Ottoman Turks imported them to work/till the land of the Turkish Effendis, and during the Mandate the British imported them to build roads, small Airports, military camps and so on and they never returned home. Ancient times is a wet dream that most of you (brainwashed individuals) still fantasize about. - - - Updated - - - NOOOOOOOOO the Arabs are the ones that thieved the Land of the Jews since time immemorial... The Jews absorbed/intermarried with the Canaanites... and through the years the blood of the Canaanite is flowing in Jewish veins... so it makes the Jews the real owners of that Land. Baloney!!! they are recent arrivals when the Ottoman Turks imported them to work/till the land of the Turkish Effendis, and during the Mandate the British imported them to build roads, small Airports, military camps and so on and they never returned home. Ancient times is a wet dream that most of you (brainwashed individuals) still fantasize about.
According to the Jews, they killed the Canaanites to thieve their land. George Antonius, founder of modern Arab nationalist history, wrote in his seminal 1938 book The Arab Awakening: " The Arabs' connection with Palestine goes back uninterruptedly to the earliest historic times American historian Bernard Lewis writes: "Clearly, in Palestine as elsewhere in the Middle East, the modern inhabitants include among their ancestors those who lived in the country in antiquity. etc...
"There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies, not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life, and conscience. They are our neighbors here, but it seems as if at a distance of a few hundred meters away, there are people who do not belong to our continent, to our world, but actually belong to a different galaxy." --Israeli president Moshe Katsav. The Jerusalem Post, May 10, 2001 "The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more" --Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel at the time - August 28, 2000. Reported in the Jerusalem Post August 30, 2000 "[The Palestinians are] beasts walking on two legs." --Menahim Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, "Begin and the Beasts". New Statesman, 25 June 1982. "When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle." --Raphael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defence Forces, New York Times, 14 April 1983. "How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to." --Golda Maier, March 8, 1969. "How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to." --Golda Maier, March 8, 1969. "There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed." --Golda Maier Israeli Prime Minister June 15, 1969 David Ben Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): "If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti - Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?" --Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121. Ben Gurion also warned in 1948 : "We must do everything to insure they ( the Palestinians) never do return." Assuring his fellow Zionists that Palestinians will never come back to their homes. "The old will die and the young will forget." "The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only bluff, which was born and developed after the war." --Israeli General Matityahu Peled, Ha'aretz, 19 March 1972.
This is a wonderful record I will file it and use it to post some responses... All I have to say is a hearty thank you for bringing it here.
No Palestinian could have lived "there" prior to 70 AD. Your ancient Palestinians integrated into what, exactly? If Arabs of Palestine are really an ancient people and not Arabs at all, how did they come into contact with Arab culture, and why did they adopt Arab culture and language? There are two Arab cities in central Israel - Tira and Tayibe - very close to each other. So close, that you can easily walk the distance between them. However, the inhabitants of Tira speak a different dialect of Arabic compared to those of Tayibe. They have different words, different accents. Even I can tell who is from Tira and who is from Tayibe. Please explain, in light of your "ancient Palestinian people integrated into Arab culture" theory, why did the inhabitants of each city adopt different Arab dialects. Not the Reductio ad Hitlerum again... You skipped the part about the "hostile and armed populace". You obviously have no idea what Benny Morris wrote. He exonerated Ben Gurion, and wrote that the refugee problem was born of war, not by design. Ever asked yourself why weren't the Druse "ethnically cleansed" if Jews were so bent on driving out the population in conquered areas? Why didn't they have to leave their villages? Why are there no Druse refugees in UNRWA camps? Nope. http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=57 The quantity of fake "Zionist" quotes out there is second only to the quantity of fake Talmud quotes out there.
source? They integrated to Arab culture took over the habits and language and became Arab. Arabs "is' not 1 ethnic group, but are a panethnic group /facepalm Yitzhak Rabin ethnic cleansed every woman and child by brute force as an active policy. That is ethnic cleansing. Clear and simple. I quoted him. So I do. Camera is a zionistic lying institute and not impartial at all like wikipedia. In fact, Wikipedia took measure against the lying propaganda of Camera. Source dismissed.
