The Lie About Arab Refugees

Published on February 18, 2010 By Leauki In War on Terror

An Arab refugee in Lebanon described in an interview on Palestinian Authority TV how he and other Arabs left for Lebanon from Israel during the 1948 war, after Arab leaders said their absence would be temporary

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This refugee's testimony is yet another example of how Palestinian leaders, writers and refugees themselves have begun to speak out in recent years and openly blame the Arab leadership for the creation of the Arab refugee problem. Mufid describes a large departure to Lebanon from Israel, which led to the creation of "11 or 15 refugee camps." He does not place the blame on Israel. As Palestinian Media Watch has previously reported, other recent Palestinian accounts likewise describe a deliberate exit from Israel under orders by Arab leaders, which contradicts the Palestinian leadership's charge that the hundreds of thousands of Arabs who left in 1948 were expelled by Israel.

http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=1646

Watch the video yourself.

The Arabs invaded Israel and drove out local Arabs.

The truth won't stop western "peace activists" from accusing Israel of "ethnic cleansing", but it's good to see that the Arabs themselves don't believe their own lies any more.

Israel at the time called on Israeli Arabs to stay and defend the newly independent country. From a Jewish call for help against an invading army developed the legend of Jews expelling the very people they asked for help.

This is a good example of how interpretations of history totally destroyed the original simple facts.

Point is, it is, to say the least, very difficult, to build a country, fight an invading army, and make new enemies inside the country on purpose, even for Jews and even for evil bloodsucking Zionists. This fact is especially obvious when one takes into account the usual anti-Israeli propaganda about the Jews being a teeny tiny minority in "Palestine" in 1948.

I mean Jews are tough, but there are limits. At some point the number of enemies better be finite and it's unreasonable to assume that the Jews would keep adding to their number while fighting for their survival.

Comments

Leauki

on Feb 18, 2010

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utemia

on Feb 18, 2010

Or it is an example that there is no such thing as a historic fact because all you need are enough people to believe and repeat the story you tell and then it becomes a fact. As fas as I remember propaganda is not really based on a truth. It also shows that if a rumor is repeated often enough it can become a fact. Another example (out of context to this) is the massacre of polish army officers in Katyn by the russian military. It was a "fact" for many decades that it had been done by the nazis even though that wasn't the way it had happened.

Leauki

on Feb 18, 2010

Or it is an example that there is no such thing as a historic fact because all you need are enough people to believe and repeat the story you tell and then it becomes a fact.

No, there is still historic fact.

And I truly believe that it is not too difficult to discern what really happened.

Another example (out of context to this) is the massacre of polish army officers in Katyn by the russian military. It was a "fact" for many decades that it had been done by the nazis even though that wasn't the way it had happened.

Yes, and in that case it was at least physically possible for the Nazis to have done it. It also didn't matter since it is well-known that neither the Nazis nor Stalin were above massacring people, so a single incident really wouldn't change much.

In the case of Israel it's different. Most stories about Israel are based in isolated events and what really happened in those does matter. And it isn't very difficult to figure out which of the stories are true.

The story that Israeli forces, while defending the newly-independent country against a deadly enemy who announced he would show no mercy, found time to create more enemies within the country by adding another front is plain ridiculous. Add to that the available facts (newspaper articles from 1948 in which Israel begged the local Arabs to defend the state and surviving documents that quote Arab leaders calling on Israeli Arabs to leave the country until the Jews are all dead) and it is pretty clear what happened.

What would you do if you were attacked in your flat by the people from another house? Would you ask your direct neighbours to help you against the attackers or would you attack your neighbours and throw them out of the house while fighting off the attackers at the same time? I think nine out of ten people would ask for help rather than make more enemies.

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