“Arabs who left Israel in the 1948 are beginning to blame Arab countries for leaving them stateless after promising a quick return to “Palestine.” "They [Arab leaders] said, 'A week, two weeks, approximately, and you'll return to Palestine,'" Sadek Mufid, formerly of Akko (Acre) and now living in Lebanon, recently told Palestinian Authority television.”

“Fatah chief Mahmoud Abbas says the Arabs of the Galilee city of Tzfat left in 1948 not because they were driven out, but on their own volition.

Many biographies of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas imply that his family became “refugees” because of the War of Independence in 1948. For instance, a BBC profile on Abbas when he succeeded Yasser Arafat as PLO chairman in 2005 writes, “In the light of his origins in Safed in Galilee - in what is now northern Israel - he is said to hold strong views about the right of return of Palestinian refugees.” Answers.com states, “As a result of the Arab-Israel War of 1948, he became a refugee.” Wikipedia articles on the topic say the same –

all giving the impression that the Abbas family was driven out and became homeless.

However, Abbas himself – co-founder of Fatah with Arafat, and known as Abu Mazen - now tells a different story. Speaking with Al-Palestinia TV on Monday, Abbas admitted that his family was not expelled or driven out, but rather left for fear that the Jews might take revenge for the slaughter of 20 Jews in the city during the Arab pogroms of 19 years earlier.

In the words of Abbas:

“I am among those who were born in the city of Tzfat (Safed). We were a family of means. I studied in elementary school, and then came the naqba [calamity, namely, the founding of the State of Israel – ed.]. At night, we left by foot from Tzfat, to the Jordan River, where we remained for a month. Then we went to Damascus, and then to our relatives in Jordan, and then we settled in Damascus.

“My father had money, and he spent his money systematically, and after a year, the money ran out and we began to work.
“The people’s basic motives brought them to run away for their lives and with their property. These [motives] were very important, for they feared the violence of the Zionist terrorist organizations – and especially those of us from Tzfat felt that there was an old desire for revenge from the rebellion of 1929, and this was in the memory of our families and parents.”

The “rebellion” Abbas referred to was a series of brutal Arab attacks on Jewish towns in the summer of 1929. Nearly 70 Jews were slaughtered in their homes in Hevron, 20 in Tzfat, 17 in Jerusalem, and others were murdered in Motza, Kfar Uriah and Tel Aviv."

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So it seems the Palestinians get shafted by other Islamic nations.
Guess it will get to the point where they will have nothing and I mean nothing.
What then?
I guess we will see the true measure of Israel then as it takes all the land of former Palestine and is left with a displaced 'people', all of whom are Moslem.
Will they be treated humanely? Given equal rights in an Israel nation?

Or will they be quietly gassed?

Careful what you ask for Israel, you might have to carry something far heavier than a Cross upon your back.
But I guess this is the process that will bring about the Unification or the Oneness of both Mohommedism and Judaism.

Unification isn't a positive outlook - its a fact that is so obvious. The other fact is how many Jews and Moslems behave in the face of such inevitability.

Queensland and NSW will bash each other senseless in the name of State of Origin Nation Redneck League, but they wil be the best of mates rather than with something entirely different like GayFL
...and even those two Codes would be best of mates under the Banner of Sport in the face of adveristy from, say ...the Farmers.

Better the Devil you know I guess

Seems to me that if the Jews can exaggerate their Holocaust numbers then the Palestinians can exaggerate their Holocaust numbers too.

What ever the case, we should not let the matter of numbers detract us from the atrocities at question.

stryder wrote on Aug 28^th, 2010 at 7:14pm:


Nah... t'will probably be the Christians.

Sappho wrote on Aug 28^th, 2010 at 6:57pm:



Holocaust is the systematic, state-sponsored rounding up and killing of an identified ethnicity. This happened to the jews. It is not happening to the Arabs.


It is cheap and stupid to equate whatever attrocities are committed in the middle east, by arabs or jews, with the holocaust.  Arab citizens of israel have more rights than in any of the Arab countries. Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank are under the civil authority of other Arabs.

If they had any sense, they'd stop lobbing rockets at Israel and get the jews to help them build a proper society for themselves.

Seems that the Arabs and Jews have something in common, no one likes either of them. Islam is peace and the jews the meek, what a load of crap.

Lets face it, to salve their guilt after the Nazi atrocities and the allies turning back on the Jewish refugees during the war. Post WW2 they took land that was already occupied in the middle east and gave it to the Jews.

This was always going to cause ongoing conflict and misery and because it was a problem created largely by Britain and the USA it is up to them to clear the Jewish people out of the Middle East and find them somewhere more suitable..considering most of them are from Eastern Europe or decedents of Eastern Europeans Im sure there is a few spare hectares somewhere in their real homeland now the Russians have cleared out