Benny Morris in that book I cited effectively dismantles the stuff about refugees from the war being the consequence of instructions from Arab governments, rather than the natural consequence of fighting and terror.

But in any case it is totally irrelevant. Even if the stories had been true they would in no way have reduced the right of the refugees to return home one the immediate conflict was over.

When people flee their home because of an official warning of an oncoming hurricane, that does not mean that they have forfeited the right to go home afterwards, and that they should have stayed put in their homes.