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7/10/2025, 11:25:28 AM
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Well, for one, they weren't ethnically cleansed in the typical sense. As in, not every Palestinian got expelled, as every German did in Poland and czechia, or as every Armenian did in their recent war with Azerbaijan.
Many Zionists, notably the mayor of haifa and leaders in haganah pleaded with the Arabs to stay, reiterating that the Jews only wish for peace and not make enemies of the Arabs. The leaders of the Arab armies, on the other hand, spread fear and panic amongst their populace, telling them of an incoming mass murder that never came, and promising them that they would regroup and destroy the fledging Jewish state with numerical superiority at a later did (which never did happen in their successive wars to destroy israel in which Israel crushed them all)
Those who did not listen to the panic mongers in the Arab armies (who likely only spread fear of pogroms because that is what they were planning to do with Jews) and disarmed were allowed to stay in Israel, where their descendents make up 2 million Arabs today. Compare this to places like Hebron and east Jerusalem, which had heavy Jewish presence, where every single Jew was expelled.
Even after trying to exterminate the Jews, there was no grudge, they got a far better deal than their contemporaries, the Germans of Prussia, or the hindus of modern Pakistan, or the Poles of Lviv (who were completely innocent).
Well, for one, they weren't ethnically cleansed in the typical sense. As in, not every Palestinian got expelled, as every German did in Poland and czechia, or as every Armenian did in their recent war with Azerbaijan.
Many Zionists, notably the mayor of haifa and leaders in haganah pleaded with the Arabs to stay, reiterating that the Jews only wish for peace and not make enemies of the Arabs. The leaders of the Arab armies, on the other hand, spread fear and panic amongst their populace, telling them of an incoming mass murder that never came, and promising them that they would regroup and destroy the fledging Jewish state with numerical superiority at a later did (which never did happen in their successive wars to destroy israel in which Israel crushed them all)
Those who did not listen to the panic mongers in the Arab armies (who likely only spread fear of pogroms because that is what they were planning to do with Jews) and disarmed were allowed to stay in Israel, where their descendents make up 2 million Arabs today. Compare this to places like Hebron and east Jerusalem, which had heavy Jewish presence, where every single Jew was expelled.
Even after trying to exterminate the Jews, there was no grudge, they got a far better deal than their contemporaries, the Germans of Prussia, or the hindus of modern Pakistan, or the Poles of Lviv (who were completely innocent).
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