"Until then I'd be more inclined to believe a man with his credentials over some blogger with an ax to grind..."
And I would rather accept the census number that were made over some academic with an axe to grind. If you continue to accept figures without thought, ( as you have demonstrated) you only hurt your own arguements.
"According to official records of the League of Nations and Arab census figure 539,000 Arabs left Israel at the urging of 7 converging Arab armies so that they would not be in the way of their attack. They promised the fleeing Arabs they would return and move into the Jews' houses after the anticipated successful annihilation of the Jews. "We know that 850,000 Jews were ejected from the Arab countries where they had lived for hundreds of years. This included successful people whose property and assets, including community assets were immediately confiscated. 750,000 penniless Jews from Arab countries fled to Israel.
"This was a virtual exchange of population. The Jewish refugees were immediately accepted by the new State of Israel. They were provided with shelter (albeit temporary tents) food and clothing."
****************************************************************************************** official records of the League of Nations and Arab census figure 539,000 Arabs left Israel ******************************************************************************************
AND I allowed for 640,000 ( about 155,000 remained in Israel and MAY have been displaced- so I added 100,000 in an attempt to be fair)
SO, about those Jewish refugees....
"anyone involved in the negoitiation of any settlement that is not accutely aware of the massive displacements is bound to not be successfull... That was and continues to the point... "