Israeli operations uprooted Palestinians in 1948. Many fear a repeat.

[David__77]

Jewish mortars and loudspeaker trucks shook Arab neighborhoods in early 1948 as sectarian fighting consumed the newly partitioned land that would soon become Israel. Amid the prolonged shelling, the trucks would broadcast the threatening sounds of wailing sirens, fake screams and evacuation warnings.

Returning home would prove impossible for an estimated 750,000 Palestinians and their millions of descendants. When Israeli archives opened in the 1980s, records showed how Israeli operations, including psychological-warfare broadcasts, helped drive the exodus.

“The element of surprise, long stints of shelling with extremely loud blasts, and loudspeakers in Arabic proved very effective when properly used,” reads an Israel Defense Forces intelligence report from June 1948 that called Jewish combatants “the main factor” in the exodus.

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It’s understandable, Khalidi said, for Palestinians to fear a repeat of these events amid Israel’s current campaign in Gaza. He pointed to recent calls from Israeli military leaders for Egypt to allow Palestinian civilians to flee into the Sinai, raising concerns that they wouldn’t be allowed to return. But Egyptian leaders, mindful of instability, are unlikely to allow that, Khalidi added.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/11/03/israel-nakba-history-1948/

[WarGamer]

1. Exactly... thx for sharing good article.

[Tetrachloride]

2. Exodus

[Happy Hoosier]

3. And 900,000 non-Israeli Jews....

Were expelled from Arab countries. Plenty of shitty behavior to go around.

Also… the 1948 war was precipitated by Arabs attacking Jewish settlements after the Jews accepted the partition and Arabs rejected it.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

4. If we're going to undo every forced or semi-forced migration in history...

We'd be going back a long way. I don't know if any of the people here trying to weaponize history like this are planning on leaving the U.S. for their ancestral homeland.

[David__77]

6. All those people rejected it?

I did not know that. Or it is just "the Arabs" as a more generalized entity?

[Happy Hoosier]

7. A broad generalization

I‘m sure Palestinian Arabs supported the partition

[PCIntern]

8. They were promised by Nasser et al. That

They could return after the Jews were eradicated.

Didn’t work out that way, did it? And it’s not going to happen. Meanwhile the Arabs who reside in Israel have more democratic rights than they would in any of their own countries.

[Happy Hoosier]

10. Yup.

The Palestinian peasants were sold a bill of goods.

[Arazi]

5. Five Arab countries attacked Israel

They had superior numbers and weapons.

Of course Israelis would have used every tool they could find to fight back. They had no way to know if those Palestinians were friend or foe.

This is ridiculous revisionist history that’s leaving out a huge chunk of explanatory information 😒

Furthermore far more Jews were expelled from the surrounding Arab countries and never allowed to return

[PCIntern]

9. You're right but

These individuals will never accept this.

My questions are: Where was your savior Jesus living and what language was he speaking? And of what religion was he? He sure as hell wasn’t conjugating Latin verbs and praying to Zeus.

[David__77]

11. People will come to different conclusions in whether permanent expulsion is justified.