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Title: | Arabist Inclined Abu Yoav Stern Promote Arab Propaganda | |||
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| Name: | Joseph E . post 2 | | |||
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| City: | Givatayim | State: | Israel | | |
| One refugee quoted in the Jordan newspaper, Ad Difaa (September 6, 1954), said: The Arab government told us: Get out so that we can get in. So we got out, but they did not get in. Habib Issa said in the New York Lebanese paper, Al Hoda (June 8, 1951): The Secretary-General of the Arab League, Azzam Pasha, assured the Arab peoples that the occupation of Palestine and Tel Aviv would be as simple as a military promenade. He pointed out that they were already on the frontiers and that all the millions the Jews had spent on land and economic development would be easy booty, for it would be a simple matter to throw Jews into the Mediterranean... Brotherly advice was given to the Arabs of Palestine to leave their land, homes and property and to stay temporarily in neighboring fraternal states, lest the guns of the invading Arab armies mow them down. And Jordan`s King Abdullah, writing in his memoirs, blamed Palestinian leaders for the refugee problem: The tragedy of the Palestinians was that most of their leaders had paralyzed them with false and unsubstantiated promises that they were not alone; that 80 million Arabs and 400 million Muslims would instantly and miraculously come to their rescue. In 1949, Israel offered to admit 100,000 Arab refugees, with the understanding that their repatriation would be linked to meaningful peace negotiations. Although 35,000 Arabs eventually returned under a family reunification plan, further implementation of the offer was suspended in the 1950`s, after it became clear that the Arab states steadfastly refused to consider Israel`s peace overtures, preferring instead to maintain a state of war with and economic boycott against Israel. In contrast, as a gesture of goodwill, Israel unilaterally released the frozen bank accounts and safe deposits of Arab refugees. http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_independence_refugees_arabs_why.php http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_independence_refugees_arabs_what.php http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1948to1967_land_1948.php http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1948to1967_jordan_annex.php http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1948to1967_fedayeen.php http://www.acpr.org.il/cloakrm/clk98.html Who Were the 1948 Refugees? by Yoram Ettinger |
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