Re: Why do people love israel so much??
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All your points are "valid," however there are some key factual errors. There are millions of Palestinians today, but at the time of the creation of Israel the number was several hundred thousand. They multiplied. To say that millions were displaced from their homes, is a lie.
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True. Total population of Palestine was around 2 million, so yes your're right it was in the hundreds of thousands. Today, the number with "refugee status" is around 7 million, which is also from further Israeli occupations.
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Not all Palestinians were forced to leave. In fact, a large portion were encouraged to leave by the prospect of a full out Arab invasion which they assumed would be successful, and then they could return to "their" land.
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Israel enacted a deliberate policy of outsting Arabs from the territory they took over. This was done through terror tactics including the Deir Yassin massacre and propaganda which threatened future massecres.
Your story was used as an ex post facto Israeli stance, to justify deniying the reutrn of the refugees. Even if true, the main reason for the Arab flight are stated above.
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