The real Nakba

The one the perpetually-whining Palestinians and their Lefty European fellow travelers never talk about:

“While many of the Arabs living in the Land of Israel left their [1948] homes voluntarily, goaded on by Arab promises that they would come back as victors and be able to displace the Jews, the Jews in Arab countries were generally expelled amidst violence, threats and confiscation of their property.”

Read. It. All.

MORE: “Colette left with only the clothes she was wearing and her suitcase was ransacked at the airport. Not only did Egyptian Jews face an uncertain future in exile, but they underwent the emotional trauma of seeing their communities destroyed and their families scattered to the ends of the earth.”

0 responses to “The real Nakba

  1. If you want to know more about Jewish refugees, here is an excellent blog:

    http://jewishrefugees.blogspot.com/

    Oh, and a technicality: it’s Nakba.

  2. Dick Stanley's avatar Dick Stanley

    Thanks for the link and the correction. I changed it. I never could spell worth a damn.

  3. What happended in 1948 and the years immediately afterwards is that Israel and the Arab countries essentially swapped roughly the same numbers of people just as India and Pakistan had done in far greater numbers at Partition in 1947. Trouble is that the Arab countries decided to keep their refugees in camps and refused to let them integrate into whatever country’s the refugees ended up in; unless the refugees had enough money to pay the requisted bribes which few did. It is the generations brought up in the camps after more than 60 years that have created the Palestinian people, otherwise they would have been absorbed into Arab society just as the Jews from the Arab countries were absorbed into Israel.

    • Dick Stanley's avatar Dick Stanley

      The Arabs were not driven out of Israel as the Jews were driven out of the Arab countries. The Arabs, who later decided to call themselves Palestinians, left the new state of Israel on their own accord, with promises by the invading Arabs that they would return to take over Jewish property. I agree that when the invading Arabs got their asses handed to them by the Jews, the invading Arab dictators turned their backs on the Arabs they had seduced into leaving Israel. Typical Arab perfidy.