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Although the causes of the 1948 Palestinian exodus remain a significantly controversial topic in public and political discourse, with a prominent amount of denialism regarding the responsibility of Israeli/Yishuv forces, most scholarship today agrees that expulsions and violence, and the fear thereof, were the primary causes.
In their volume on the 1947–1948 period in Jerusalem and surrounding areas, O Jerusalem!, Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre give a variety of explanations for the cause of the 1948 Palestinian exodus, but conclude, "Above all, fear and uncertainty fueled the Arabs' flight." [12] Middle East historian Karen Armstrong described a similar ...
In July 1948 Lydda and Ramle had a joint population of 50,000–70,000 Palestinian Arabs, 20,000 of them refugees from Jaffa and elsewhere. [23] Several Palestinian Arab towns had already fallen to Jewish or Israeli advances since April, but Lydda and Ramle had held out. There are differing views as to how well-defended the towns were.
Immediately after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Israel began a process of nation-building; its first general elections were held on 25 January 1949. Chaim Weizmann was installed as Israel's first President, and David Ben-Gurion (head of the Mapai party ) attained the position of Prime minister of Israel that he had previously held in the provisional government.
300,000± by May, 1948 according to Noam Chomsky (in 2002) [27] 380,000± by 15 May 1948 according to Ilan Pappe (in 1994) [28] 335,000 by 5 June 1948 according to Yossef Weitz of the Jewish National Fund. [29] 391,000 by 1 June 1948 according to a report by the Haganah's intelligence service (239,000 from the UN-ascribed Jewish state.) [10]
The 1948 Palestine war [a] was fought in the territory of what had been, ... The causes of the 1948 Palestinian exodus are a controversial topic among historians. [100]
The causes of the 1948 Palestinian exodus are a controversial topic among historians. [235] After the war, around 156,000 Arabs remained in Israel and became Israeli citizens. [236] Displaced Palestinian Arabs, known as Palestinian refugees, were settled in Palestinian refugee camps throughout the Arab world.
1948 Palestinian exodus in popular culture (1 C) V. Arab villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War (5 C, 348 P) Pages in category "1948 Palestinian ...