If there was ethnic cleansing, Kevin, it was done by both sides. Over 600,00 Middle-Eastern Jews fled for their lives from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and the other states in the Arab League in 1948. Their homes and businesses were taken without compensation. There is no record of how many were killed before they could flee.
While Israel must acknowledge that grave injustices were done to Palestinian Arabs in 1948, the Arab states must also own up to their share of the blame. They persuaded large numbers of Palestinian Arabs to flee the fighting, telling them that the Jews would be defeated and driven into the sea in a few days, the new country of Israel would be no more and they could all come back home.
That was 50 years or more ago and no attempt has ever been made by the Arab states to integrate their fellow Arabs into their countries society. They have left them in wretched camps and not even provided them with food in some cases. Were it not for the charity of the UN and some individual countries, some might well have starved.
When the Palestinian Arabs tried to set up a state in Jordan, several thousand were killed by the Jordanian Army.
I agree that Israel must recognize and admit to the errors that She has made over the years, but it shouldn't be one-sided.

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