I would like to start the 1948 situation.
I realize the claim has been very prevalent that Israelis drove the Arabs out of Palestine and stole their land, but I have researched, read otherwise, and believe it to be a false accusation. Before the attack by the Arab countries against the new nation of Israel, Israelis encouraged the Arab residents of Palestine to stay. It was Arab military leaders who commanded the people to get out before they attacked Israel.
“The Arabs who fled Israel in 1948 (
in spite of Israel's urgent invitation to remain to build a new country together) did so at the insistence of the Arab military. They were warned that those who remained would be considered traitors to the Arab cause. Most of those who fled never saw an Israeli soldier. They are the only "refugees" in the Middle East as far as the world is concerned and to whom all the sympathy is given. Jewish refugees count for nothing. The families of those who did not flee comprise about 25 percent of Israel's citizens today and have full voting rights. Some are even members of the Knesset, in spite of their opposition to Israel's existence. In stark contrast, no Jew can be a citizen of any Muslim country, where the few remaining have almost no rights.”
“…in Haifa for example, the senior Jewish official there as well as the Hagana’s high command, drove through the Arab section of the city with a loudspeaker on April 26, 1948 (the State of Israel had STILL not been declared!!!), calling out in Arabic to the residents of his city to remain on their land and in their homes. A communique issued by the Haifa headquarters of the British police noted, “Every effort is being made by the Jews to persuade the Arab populace to stay and carry on with their normal lives, to get their shops and businesses open and to be assured that their lives and interests will be safe.” (see point 4 below)
For their part, Arab leaders of the paramilitary forces, and the forces of Syria, were blunt in their announcements that they wanted Arabs to leave these areas so that the Arab armies would have a clear field in which to initiate their genocide of the Jews.”
From the blog of Alan Meyer at The Times of Israel
blogs.timesofisrael.com
The Arab countries/leaders expected to destroy Israel and win. Instead, Israel won, resulting in territorial changes-
“Israel keeps the area allotted to it by the government
Partition Plan and captures ≈60% of the area allotted to Arab state;
Jordanian rule of the
West Bank,
Egyptian occupation of the
Gaza Strip”
en.m.wikipedia.org
You say you care about dispossessed people whoever they are who have experienced theft, violence, etc. Do you care about the Jews who had to flee Muslim countries?
“More than 800,000 Jews fled from Muslim lands to Israel for refuge, leaving behind virtually everything they had possessed. This was almost double the number of Arab refugees who fled from Israel during the war of independence. Yet these Jewish refugees who fled persecution and slaughter are ignored in the media. For example, in 1948 there were about 265,000 Jews in Morocco, today there are about 5,000. There were about 140,000 Jews in Algeria, while today there are none. There were about 135,000 in Iraq, 75,000 in Egypt, and 30,000 in Syria, with only about 100 remaining in each of these countries.”
