"People whose normal place of residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948, who lost both their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict."
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How many times have we been thru all this before?

Who started that conflict in 1948, then, after the Israelis had agreed to the UN Partition Plan?

Who displaced all those Palestinian Arabs by telling them to move out of the way just while they polished off the Israelis, and then they could come back?

Who then lost the conflict, for all their bravado & superior numbers, leaving all their Palestinian oppos stranded in their own countries [where so many of them, all these years later, are still in refugee camps!]?

So what should the Israelis have done -- said to them all "Sorry we beat all those thousands who were trying so hard to help you by wiping us all out, but come on back home just the same; and maybe you can have another go in a year or two"?

Oh, come on!

It's a pity the Israelis have now blown it with their aggressive bullying. But it won't help make them change these ways by going on with this selective-memory account of how their state first emerged, and how much help for it they got from their friendly helpful neighbours, will it?

~M~