Did Zionists Displace the Arabs of Palestine?

Question

Beginning in 1920, anti-Zionist propaganda insisted that Zionists were going to dispossess and expel the Arabs of Palestine. In 1922, at the beginning of the British Mandate, there were about 660,000 Arabs in Palestine, while at the end of the British mandate there were about 1.3 Million Arabs. About 735,000 lived in the areas that would become Israel after the War of Independence. There were more Arabs in Palestine than had ever lived there before in all of recorded history, and their standard of living, which had been considerably below that of Arabs in neighboring countries, was well above it. The Arab claim of dispossession, repeated so often in Mandatory Palestine, was an invention. When the UN partitioned Palestine in 1947, the Palestinians, initiated attacks against the Jews, and the Jewish underground groups retaliated. The forces of both sides consisted of poorly trained underground armies and volunteers, who committed massacres against civilian targets and fought in built up areas. The Palestinian Arab community was not well organized however, and began fleeing the country, expecting to return when the war was over and victorious Arab armies liberated Palestine. However, the Jews won the war, and enacted a law preventing the return of the refugees. Given that the refugees were hostile to the new state, the attitude of the Israeli government was understandable. After World War II, numerous Germans were expelled or fled from areas of Germany annexed by Poland and from the Czech Sudetensland. The flight and expulsion of the Palestinian refugees, while in part due to the actions of Jewish terrorist groups and the Israeli army was not, as anti-Zionists claim, the result of a fundamental tenet of Zionist ideology, but rather an unfortunate product of the war that was instigated by the misguided leadership of the Arabs of Palestine.

http://www.zionismontheweb.org/zionism_issues.htm

Answer 1

Yes, and with the help of America and Europe. Thats my answer.

Answer 2

trying to claim that the growth of the populous was somehow related to arab propoganda is misinformed. surely you would notice that in the 1900's growth of that rate was widespread across the world. it is correct that people left as refugees of war but according to the UN it is unlawful for a nation to not let those refugees back into the country, no matter who is in power.
I would argue that the entire situation was instigated by the "israelis" but thats a debate for another time.



"The flight and expulsion of the Palestinian refugees, while in part due to the actions of Jewish terrorist groups and the Israeli army was not, as anti-Zionists claim, the result of a fundamental tenet of Zionist ideology, but rather an unfortunate product of the war "

covered by the UN, its like saying the Iraqi refugees cannot return to Iraq or that those who fled Rwanda cannot go back. Its very discriminatory towards the citizenry.

Answer 3

in case you easily knew something, you're able to understand that the Palestinian exodus began after the civil conflict in Palestine in 1947 between the Jewish gangs and the Arabs of Palestine who have been neither more desirable interior the style of militia nor have been they greater appropriate armed and that replaced into earlier any intervention by potential of the Arab league countries. And interior the 1948 conflict, the Jewish forces actually out numbered the Arab forces of the six countries mixed, and the heavily militia have been those coming from Egypt and Jordan yet this superiority quickly got here to no longer something after the UN hands embargo.

Answer 4

The situation of the stateless Arabs of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza owes entirely to

1. Amin al-Husseini and the Arabs desire to conquer the Jews of Palestine and steal what the the Zionists had built

2. The Arab states and the United Nations UNWRA racket for purposely keeping these Arabs living in squaller as a front line "weapon" against the Jews.

Answer 5

jews, arabs, christians and palestinians have been there. if you start the clock at 1920, maybe they did take the land. that's the whole problem with people arguing about this stuff. one person starts the clock in the 1900's, another starts the clock 2000 BC. it's already done. everyone should accept it, get over it, and leave it alone. every country in the world took land from someone else. that's politics and life. no one is giving the US back to the native americans. it's exactly the same. the only difference is that less years have gone by for them.

Answer 6

Well, if you read a Zionist site you'll get a lot of hasbera and spin. Zionist ideas about removing the Palestinians began well before 1920 (see below). The Palestinian political class was aware of these proposals and strongly objected - Britain imposed the Zionist immigration policy by force of arms. The claim that Palestinians initiated the 1947 attacks on the Jews is not supported by facts. Not even considering the long-standing plans by Zionists to take over the land from the native people as an attack of sorts, there had been attacks on Palestinians by Jews prior to the November 29 UN partition vote. It is true that both sides committed massacres in the war, but the Zionist forces committed about 5 times as many, including the first major one at Deir Yassein in April 1948. Even in December 1947 Zionists attacked and dispelled the inhabitants of two Arab villages. Sure, you can trust Zionist web sites to mix in a few facts to make ethnic cleansing and the associated massacres sound justifiable.

Some interesting quotes from Zionists and their supporters:

In October 1882 Ben-Yehuda and Yehiel Michal Pines, few of the earliest Zionist pioneers in Palestine, wrote describing the indigenous Palestinians:
". . . There are now only five hundred [thousand] Arabs, who are not very strong, and from whom we shall easily take away the country if only we do it through stratagems [and] without drawing upon us their hostility before we become a the strong and populous ones." (Righteous Victims, p. 49)

In 1895, Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, wrote in his diary:
"We must expropriate gently the private property on the state assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it employment in our country. The property owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discretely and circumspectly. Let the owners of the immoveable property believe that they are cheating us, selling us things for more than they are worth. But we are not going to sell them anything back." (America And The Founding Of Israel, p. 49 & Righteous Victims, p. 21-22)

The socialist Zionist Hahman Syrkin, the ideological founder of Socialist Zionism, proposed in pamphlet entitled "The Jewish Question and the Socialist Jewish State" which was published in 1898 that:
"Palestine thinly populated, in which the Jews constituted today 10 percent of the population, must be evacuated for the Jews." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 11)

Moshe Sharett, the first Israeli foreign minister, wrote in 1914:
We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture ..... Recently there has been appearing in our newspapers the clarification about "the mutual misunderstanding" between us and the Arabs, about "common interests" [and] about "the possibility of unity and peace between two fraternal peoples." ..... [But] we must not allow ourselves to be deluded by such illusive hopes ..... for if we ceases to look upon our land, the Land of Israel, as ours alone and we allow a partner into our estate- all content and meaning will be lost to our enterprise. (Righteous Victims, p. 91)

Just prior to the British conquest of Palestine, Chaim Weizmann wrote describing the indigenous Palestinians:
"[the indigenous population was akin to] the rocks of Judea, as obstacles that had to be cleared on a difficult path." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 17)

In 1919 Lord Balfour, the father of the Balfour Declaration, justified the usurpation of Palestinians right of self determination as the following:
"Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-old traditions, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder important then the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 [Palestinian] Arabs who now inhabit the ancient land." (Righteous Victims, p. 75)

As early as October 25, 1919 Winston Churchill predicted that Zionism implied the clearing of the indigenous population, he wrote:
"there are the Jews, whom we are pledged to introduce into Palestine, and who take it for granted the the local [Palestinian] population will be cleared out to suit their convenience." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 15)

On July 12, 1937, Ben-Gurion wrote in his diary explaining the benefits of the compulsory population transfer (which was proposed in British Peel Commission):
"The compulsory transfer of the [Palestinian] Arabs from the valleys of the proposed Jewish state could give us something which we never had, even when we stood on our own during the days of the first and second Temples. . . We are given an opportunity which we never dared to dream of in our wildest imaginings. This is MORE than a state, government and sovereignty----this is national consolidation in a free homeland." (Benny Morris, Righteous Victims, p. 142)

Then director of the Jewish Agency's Political Department, Moshe Sharett declared in 1947:
"Transfer could be the crowning achievements, the final stage in the development of [our] policy, but certainly not the point of departure. By [speaking publicly and prematurely] we could mobilizing vast forces against the matter and cause it to fail, in advance." (Righteous Victims, p. 254)
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PS
BTW the number of Arabs who lived in the area that became Israel was probably closer to 900,000 - close to 750,000 fled, and around 150,000 were left. What a Zionist site won't point out was that that was the majority, even at the asserted number of 735,000. Sure, Israel called itself a democracy, a "light unto nations" and a shining example of moral righteousness - and if you don't like how people might vote force them from their homes at gunpoint. Zionists even today claim that murdering thousands, expelling hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and confiscating their land and possessions for Jewish use is a morally righteous cause.

Answer 7

I thought Jews were there over 2,000 years ago?

Answer 8

No, they got kicked out of Jordan.

Answer 9

1967- 465,000 Arab troops against less than 20,000 Israelis and the Arabs lose in 6 days.

Don't F*** with the Israelis. We don't play.

Answer 10

ROFLMAO



Nice little Arab propaganda site you got there racist.