georgephillip
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"Around 400 Arab towns and villages were depopulated during the 1948 Palestinian exodus. Some places were entirely destroyed and left uninhabitable;[1][2] others were left with a few hundred residents and were repopulated by Jewish immigrants, then renamed.They left for a variety of reasons, and the Arab armies took defensive positions around Arab populations, probably preventing the Jews from taking all the land between the River and the sea.Why did the Arab squatters flee?
Could it be that they were in the way of Arab armies intent on "wiping Israel off the map"?
"The exact number of refugees is a matter of dispute.[7]
"But around 80 percent of the Arab inhabitants of what became Israel (50 percent of the Arab total of Mandatory Palestine) left or were expelled from their homes.[8][9]
"The causes remain also the subject of fundamental disagreement between Arabs and Israelis.
"Factors involved in the exodus include Jewish military advances, attacks against Arab villages and fears of another massacre after Deir Yassin,[10]:239240 which caused many to leave out of panic; expulsion orders by Zionist authorities; the voluntary self-removal of the wealthier classes,[11] the collapse in Palestinian leadership,[12] and an unwillingness to live under Jewish control.[13]
"Later, a series of laws passed by the first Israeli government prevented them from returning to their homes, or claiming their property.
"They and many of their descendants remain refugees.[14][15]
"Later in the war, Palestinians were expelled as part of Plan Dalet.[16][citation needed] The expulsion of the Palestinians has since been described by some historians as ethnic cleansing,[17][18][19] while others dispute this charge."
1948 Palestinian exodus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gee whiz, muhammud. That hoped-for Jew genocide thing was ill-planned and ill-conceived. It seems those most negatively affected by the Arab war of aggression were the Arab beggars and squatters who were displaced by the crusading Arab armies.
"Towns and villages are arranged according to the subdistricts of Mandatory Palestine they were situated in..."
How many Jewish town and villages were ethnically cleansed in Palestine, Golda?
List of Arab towns and villages depopulated during the 1948 Palestinian exodus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia