The Double Nakba

[Tony_FLADEM]

17. In my previous post I said the Palestinians started being expelled in 1947

Causes of the first wave, December 1947 – March 1948

More specific to the causes Morris states: "The Arab evacuees from the towns and villages left largely because of Jewish ... attacks or fear of impending attack, and from a sense of vulnerability."[136]

He says Palestinians were attacked and this is why some of them left. Isn't that the same as expelling them? Why else were they attacked?

This happened in December *1947*

As I mentioned in my previous post the partition plan was unworkable. Palestinian Arabs numbered 900,000 and Jews numbered 300,000 so the Israeli side had an incentive to expel Arab Palestinians because of the disparity in population totals between the 2 sides.

Where and on what date did the Palestinians start the war?

The Irgun started it on 12/31/47 by attacking some Arab workers at an oil refinery. They and the Stern Gang were against partition so they attacked Arabs hoping to get revenge attacks which would escalate things and a wider conflict would be used as a means to attain more land which is what occurred.

In the Arab countries some Jews were happy where they were living and in other instances they were not. It depends on who you ask about that.