... Rightous Victims;A history of the Zionis-Arab Conflict,1881-2001,Israel`s border wars, 1949-1956" and the "birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited"
Norris stresses the jihadi character of the two stage Arab assault on the Yishuv-Jewish community in Palestine.He also clearly documments thatmarouding bands of Arab irregulars,more resambling banditery than a national liberation movement.It was those irregulars who started attrociries agianst Jewish villages and towns.It was in response to Arab massacres for Jews that Hagana and Palmach and Irgun on smaller scale responded harshly against prepetrators of those attrocities.In most cases after reprisals did the villagers from were the banditry originated fled.
Add to it the fact that Arab residents of waht is now Israel did not have a leadership of the caliber of the Yishuv leaders like David Ben Gurion,Moshe Shertok and Menachem Begin.In 1949 Herut integrated in democratic system.620,000 to 5 mil.?.Nakba isn`t holocaust |
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