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Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein and ZOA Director of Special Projects Elizabeth Berney, Esq. released the following statement:
In Part 1 of this Article (available here), ZOA set the record straight about aspects of a defamatory, antisemitic propaganda resolution entitled, “Recognizing the Nakba and Palestinian Refugees’ Rights” (H. Res. 1123), introduced by Jew-haters Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and six other Democratic “Squad” members. Part 1 of this Article described that: (i) the “Nakba” that Tlaib seeks to commemorate is the sick, hateful genocidal belief that it’s a “catastrophe” when Jews survive Arab attacks; (ii) Tlaib’s resolution grossly inflates Palestinian Arab “refugee” numbers and ignores the “refugees” origins outside Israel; and (iii) under the U.S. and international definitions of refugees, Palestinian Arabs never qualified as “refugees.”
This Part 2 of this article documents that Arab governments and leaders (not Israel) created the Palestinian Arab refugees; and that millions of alleged descendants of fraudulent “Palestinian refugees” have no “right” to overrun and annihilate the Jewish state.
Tlaib’s Resolution Falsely Blames Israel for Arab Refugees, Who Were Actually Created By Arab Leaders and Governments: First, Tlaib’s resolution falsely blames Israel for Arabs who left the area in 1948. In fact, Jewish authorities urged local Arabs to remain and live together in peace; while invading Arab armies, Arab governments and local Arab authorities, including Nazi-collaborator Grand Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini, demanded that local Arabs leave, to clear a path for the Arab armies to annihilate the Jewish population. Arab authorities also invented stories of Jewish atrocities to encourage Arabs to leave; while the Arabs committed actual atrocities against Jews – including murdering over 70 Jewish doctors and nurses on the way to Hadassah hospital. This Arab responsibility for Arab “refugees” is extremely well documented in British police reports, Arab authorities’ reports, Christian authorities’ reports, and Arab, local and international press. For instance:
- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Said, a Jew-hater also responsible for expelling Iraq’s ancient Jewish community from Iraq, declared: “We will smash the country [Israel] with our guns and obliterate every place the Jews seek shelter in. The Arabs should conduct their wives and children to safe areas until the fighting has died down.”
- The Near East Arabic Broadcasting Station confirmed on April 3, 1949: “It must not be forgotten that the Arab Higher Committee encouraged the refugees’ flight from their homes in Jaffa, Haifa, and Jerusalem.”
- Egyptian daily Akhbar el Yom recounted on October 12, 1963: “The 15th of May, 1948, arrived.... On that day the mufti of Jerusalem appealed to the Arabs of Palestine to leave the country, because the Arab armies were about to enter and fight in their stead.”
- The Melkite Greek Catholic bishop of Galilee, George Hakim acknowledged in August 1948: “The refugees were confident that their absence would not last long, and that they would return within a week or two. Their leaders had promised them that the Arab Armies would crush the ‘Zionist gangs’ very quickly and that there was no need for panic or fear of a long exile.” Bishop Hakim also reported that the Arabs of Haifa “fled in spite of the fact that the Jewish authorities guaranteed their safety and rights as citizens of Israel.”
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