Y'know you guys bring in Deir Yassin so often I have come to the conclusion that that event, if it even happened, was an exception to the rule. I think the Arabs cleared out for the most part due to either their cooperation with or fear of an overwhelming force of several Arab armies.

There is no doubt that the ethnic cleansing of the '48 war was intended to be of the Jews and if the result was Arab flight it was fair dinkum.