dave p:
As I recall, war was declared on Israel immediately after Ben Gurion’s announcement of nationhood, and arabs were encouraged via radio to leave Israel so that the Jews could be killed, after which they could return to their homes.
Because five Arab countries declared war and lost, and because they arrogantly presumed they’d win and encouraged Arabs in Israel to leave, this gives the grandchildren who’ve never lived in Israel ‘a right to return’?
No one believes that Zionist propaganda any more except guillable Americans targeted by Zionist infowar. In Israel itself, it is laughed off as drivel.
1. That the Palestinians were ethnically cleansed is established fact.
2. The Zionist “Radio Broadcast Story” was researched and condemned as a blatant lie by the 60s. The story of how the story was researched and discredited by the British is the focus of Chris Hitchens excellent essay “Broadcast”.
3. 5 Arab armies did not attack at Partition, but five months later when it was clear that mass cleansing was happening and Jews were grabbing lands well outside their Partitioned sectors..The only military with good logistics, Jordan’s Arab Legion, stayed out of it and the Arab multinationals were sent in on what they thought was a multinational rescue mission of Palestinians and under enforcing UN Resolutions
the Israelis disregarded. They found themselves like other militaries thrown together at the last minute on multinational rescue missions – poorly supplied, disorganized, outfought by the locals..(See Somalia, initial UN force in Korea, current Afghan mess of NATO)
4. Israels legal claim that they owe nothing to any Palestinian, legally, since the Palestinians “voluntarily left” their lands, homes, businesses, and bank savings. But that has well been, long been known as a Big Lie. It doesn’t help that while insisting they don’t owe a shekel to the Palestinians they enriched themselves off of, they launched thousands and thousands of lawsuits to reclaim every cent of value of land and property of WWII killed or cleansed Jews.
5. The majority of Jews who left Arab lands did so voluntarily, sacrificing wealth they could not legally take out of the country for voluntary Aliyah. (The Jewish “right of return” under Zionist dogma that the Pal’s “right” just mirrors.)
Few, very few Jews were directly expelled..though they can claim the same sort of “duress” that also caused European colonialists (also uncompensated) to pack up and leave for pennies on the dollar.
Any compensation – which should happen for Palestinians and Jew who left Arab lands involuntarily – given all the international legal precedents Jews have set with successful WWII lawsuits to reclaim value of land and property fleeing Jews left behind – can be done.
Even if it involves telling Pals there is no right of return and Jews cannot get the present value of land in Yemen they were expelled from, not making voluntary Aliyah. Pals will scream about not getting their land back, but then they can elect not to get high 10s to 100s of thousands to millions in cash and face the end of refugee aid surrounded by their now wealthy refugee neighbors…Jews may scream about paying up for land and property they stole fair and square, but the Jews can afford it.
We are only talking a few tens of billions, far less than the refugee aid the Pals have gotten over the years and the sums of money the Jews have gotten from America. Indeed, the US, Saudis, and Euros might gladly pony up part of the money just to get final borders and the Zionists and Pals to finally shut up and enjoy their shitty little countries.
Egypt could “pay” for their part with ceding a little land in the Sinai to expand Gaza enough to be a viable 2nd Pal homeland.
