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Title: | Arabist Inclined Abu Yoav Stern Promote Arab Propaganda | |||
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| Name: | Joseph E . post 1 | | |||
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| City: | Givatayim | State: | Israel | | |
| Haaretz Quote " During the 1948 War of Independence, Habash was abroad for his studies. He returned to Lod before the city`s Arab residents were expelled, and hadn`t been back since. " , Arab were not expelled , The Arab voluntary exodus was entirely because of the actions of Arab leaders before the 1948 War of Independence, The role of Arab leaders ordering the Arab population to leave is well-documented Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Said, declared: We will smash the country with our guns and obliterate every place the Jews seek shelter in. The Arabs should conduct their wives and children to safe areas until the fighting has died down. The Secretary of the Arab League Office in London, Edward Atiyah, wrote in his book, The Arabs: This wholesale exodus was due ...to the belief of the Arabs, encouraged by the boastings of an unrealistic Arabic press and the irresponsible utterances of some of the Arab leaders that it could be only a matter of weeks before the Jews were defeated by the armies of the Arab States and the Palestinian Arabs enabled to reenter and retake possession of their country. In 1973, Khaled al-Azm, published his memoirs in Beirut. , Khaled served as Prime Minister of Syria in 1948 and 1949, also admitted the Arab role in persuading the arabs to leave , he includes the following:In his memoirs: Since 1948 we have been demanding the return of the refugees to their homes. But we ourselves are the ones who encouraged them to leave. Only a few months separated our call to them to leave and our appeal to the United Nations to resolve on their return. We have brought destruction upon a million Arab refugees, by calling upon them and pleading with them to leave their lands, their homes, their work and their business, and we have caused them to be barren and unemployed though each one of them had been working and qualified in a trade from which he could make a living. In addition, we accustomed them to begging for hand-outs and to suffice with what little the UN organisation would allocate them. Monsignor George Hakim, a Greek Orthodox Catholic Bishop of Galilee told the Beirut newspaper, Sada al Janub (August 16, 1948): The refugees were confident their absence would not last long, and that they would return within a week or two. Their leaders had promised them that the Arab armies would crush the `Zionist gangs` very quickly and that there was no need for panic or fear of a long exile. continuation... |
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