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Honest question: Were they expelled, or did they flee? Or some of both? I think the difference matters. "I'm not living with those people in charge" and the
by AnimalMuppet 2y ago
Honest question: Were they expelled, or did they flee? Or some of both?
I think the difference matters. "I'm not living with those people in charge" and then fighting for the better part of a century to throw them out, gets less sympathy from me than "they threw me out".
On the other hand, I have some sympathy for Cuban exiles, so maybe I'm inconsistent...
- jedimind 2y ago>Honest question: Were they expelled, or did they flee? Or some of both? Both, the fleeing was a direct result and the very intention of the massacres to achieve the ethnic-cleansing[1] of Palestinians. Those who fled were not only refused back onto their land and homes, but were also shot at and killed when they tried going back into their homes. [1] The Masterplan for the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3cnRcfp_us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3cnRcfp_us
- piva00 2y agoThere's a Wikipedia page for you to read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
- throwaway290 2y agoUnbiased version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_conflict#War_of_1948 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Arab%E2%80%93Is...