MYTHS & FACTS #7

MYTH:

JEWS CREATED ISRAEL BY ETHNICALLY CLEANSING ARABS IN 1948.

FACT:

There is no evidence to support the expulsion or ethnic cleansing of Arabs.

By spreading anti-Semitic rumors of Jewish blood libels, killings of women and children etc., Palestinian leaders instilled fear and terror in the hearts of the Palestinian-Arabs, until they fled leaving their homes and properties.

“The Arab state which had encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies, have failed to keep their promise to help these refugees.” – The Jordanian daily newspaper Falastin, Feb. 19, 1949.

According to the 1948 acting chairman of the Palestine Arab Higher Committee (AHC), the Arabs living in Palestine willingly chose to leave rather than to submit to a truce.