As Jewish Israeli historians have repeatedly pointed out, based on archived IDF and Israeli government documents, the Arab countries were not responsible for creating the Palestinian refugee problem. Israel was.
None of the neighboring countries expelled any of the Palestinians. There's no reason to think they should be responsible take them in.
Morris isn't the only historian of note. And yes, even according to Morris Israel was responsible for expelling a huge number of Palestinians at different stages and different places during the war, and that was certainly true during operation Hiram in October, 1948, when the IDF conquered the North and committed several massacres and other atrocities.
And what do you think? The legal, land owning Arabs just willingly decided to leave their property and belongings and their entire lives without any intention of returning?? However they ended up on the wrong side of the border Israel refused to let them back and confiscated all their property without compensation! Of course they still hate Israel today, it's not hard to understand.
Come on, let's try to be at least somewhat objective on this. Israel has done bad things. So have the Palestinians. It's not one side is totally good and the other is totally evil.
You're mixing together a hodgepodge of thoughts, which do not refute Morris' point or back up your original claim, which was in any case unrelated to my post.
I am not, and you are the one who suggested that other countries should take them in. So, yes, it is relevant to at least a portion of your post. Learn some actual history about this period before writing hand-picked, one-sided, misleading comments about it.
Since the second intifada Morris has become a complete anti-Arab racist, and those familiar with him and his work are at a loss for how he has back tracked on much of his writings, which are based on Israeli government and military archives, which were written 10-15 years earlier.
He didn't backtrack on anything. He just looked at the other side and gained a broader perspective. E.g. he acknowledges that Israel committed violence in 48, but then realized that had the Arabs won, they would have committed far greater violence.
As Jewish Israeli historians have repeatedly pointed out, based on archived IDF and Israeli government documents, the Arab countries were not responsible for creating the Palestinian refugee problem. Israel was.
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/israel-and-the-palestinians-1.896017
None of the neighboring countries expelled any of the Palestinians. There's no reason to think they should be responsible take them in.
Morris isn't the only historian of note. And yes, even according to Morris Israel was responsible for expelling a huge number of Palestinians at different stages and different places during the war, and that was certainly true during operation Hiram in October, 1948, when the IDF conquered the North and committed several massacres and other atrocities.
And what do you think? The legal, land owning Arabs just willingly decided to leave their property and belongings and their entire lives without any intention of returning?? However they ended up on the wrong side of the border Israel refused to let them back and confiscated all their property without compensation! Of course they still hate Israel today, it's not hard to understand.
Come on, let's try to be at least somewhat objective on this. Israel has done bad things. So have the Palestinians. It's not one side is totally good and the other is totally evil.
You're mixing together a hodgepodge of thoughts, which do not refute Morris' point or back up your original claim, which was in any case unrelated to my post.
I am not, and you are the one who suggested that other countries should take them in. So, yes, it is relevant to at least a portion of your post. Learn some actual history about this period before writing hand-picked, one-sided, misleading comments about it.
Since the second intifada Morris has become a complete anti-Arab racist, and those familiar with him and his work are at a loss for how he has back tracked on much of his writings, which are based on Israeli government and military archives, which were written 10-15 years earlier.
He didn't backtrack on anything. He just looked at the other side and gained a broader perspective. E.g. he acknowledges that Israel committed violence in 48, but then realized that had the Arabs won, they would have committed far greater violence.