Israel/Palestine

Little Tich

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5. Sigh.

Wed May 18, 2016, 09:29 PM

May 2016

I can really recommend that you read Benny Morris' The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem revisited:

Benny Morris
Source: Wikipedia

The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (2004)
In his updated The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (2004), Morris answers critics of the first version and adds material from the opening of new Israeli government archives. He writes that the contents of the new documents substantially increase both Israeli and Palestinian responsibility for the refugee problem, revealing more expulsions and atrocities on the Israeli side, and more orders from Arab officials to the Palestinians to leave their villages, or at least to send their women and children away. Morris writes that his conclusions are unlikely to please either Israeli or Palestinian propagandists, or "black-or-white historians".

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Morris#Selected_book_summaries

This book is more or less factually correct, and it's written from a pro-Israel angle. Copies are floating around on the interwebs, if you want to have a look. Google it.

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The Double Nakba [View all] shira May 2016 OP

Yep King_David May 2016 #1

You know why, but still a good question. n/t aranthus May 2016 #2

Two wrongs don't make a right. Little Tich May 2016 #3

The Palestinians need to recognize that they have the most responsibility. aranthus May 2016 #4

Sigh. Little Tich May 2016 #5

You really need to read Morris in full. aranthus May 2016 #6

Morris indeed argues that it was justified to expel Palestinians. Little Tich May 2016 #7

So you would support the right of return aranthus May 2016 #8

Best the "refugees" integrate into the country's they were born in... King_David May 2016 #9

But then they could not be used as a weapon aranthus May 2016 #10

All of them should have that right. Little Tich May 2016 #18

I respect your consistency. aranthus May 2016 #19

Not so much so for those Europeans who have ancestors or who themselves were refugees. Little Tich May 2016 #21

Not really. aranthus May 2016 #22

I've met Germans who are still unhappy about their grandparents being expelled from from their homes Little Tich May 2016 #25

Neither the Turk or Greek side will allow refugees or their descendants.... shira May 2016 #23

Interestingly, Greece and Turkey did agree on a population exchange, which is an argument in your Little Tich May 2016 #24

Jews were expelled from the Arab countries as revenge for the Arabs being expelled from Tony_FLADEM May 2016 #11

Not a word of truth to this. aranthus May 2016 #12

According to Benny Morris they started expelling the Palestinian Arabs before the war started Tony_FLADEM May 2016 #14

No he doesn't say that. aranthus May 2016 #16

In my previous post I said the Palestinians started being expelled in 1947 Tony_FLADEM May 2016 #17

Completely wrong aranthus May 2016 #20

Did you make that up ? King_David May 2016 #13

Which part is made up? Tony_FLADEM May 2016 #15