In my research challenging the false narratives, lies and myths that have morphed into fact, pertaining to Palestinian claims about their history, I stumbled upon a 1973 report titled The Double Exodus. Written by two award winning journalists Terence Prittie and Bernard Dineen, the report meticulously analyses both the exodus of Arabs from Palestine and the simultaneous exodus of Jews from Arab countries during and immediately after 1948. The evidence supporting my sourced research that the Palestinians have conducted the most effective propaganda campaign since time immemorial convincing a global audience of their victimhood from colonizing Zionists is in abundance. Arab countries, several United Nations organizations, left leaning media and an ignorant and biased public have all facilitated the myth of Palestinian victimhood and Zionist colonialism which unfortunately has resulted in an unstoppable trajectory of Jew hatred.
It is important to clarify that in 1948 there was no demographic, no nationality, ethnicity, people, culture race nor tribe in existence identifying as Palestinians. There were Arabs living in Palestine of course but the vast majority were immigrants into the geography leveraging off the economic benefits of Zionism. All these facts are evidenced by the writings and statements of Arab leaders, by Ottoman policy, by Churchill in Parliament, by various British consuls in Palestine, including Finn and Meinerzthagen in their reports and memoirs and by the diaries of numerous itinerant scribes and commentators of the time. Let’s just review two such documented quotes to debunk the current narrative that Palestinians were an identified indigenous people and not colonizers themselves.
Auni Bey Abdul Hadi, Arab political leader in his submission to the 1937 Peel Commission wrote as follows:
“There is no such country as Palestine, which is a Zionist term invented by Jews and is alien to us”.
A quote from Winston Churchill in the House of Commons on May 23, 1939:
“So far from being persecuted the Arabs have crowded into the country and multiplied until their population has increased more than all world Jewry could lift up the Jewish population”.
The Double Exodus Report, the subject of this article, further confirms the above and moreover recognizes the number of Arabs displaced in the 1948 war was 500,000 maximum and not the 750,000 plus statistic so often quoted as being the norm. The Double Exodus reaffirms the intense and successful campaigns to perpetuate the claims of Arabs being the victims during the 1948 war given paradoxically, that five Arab armies initiated the attack on Israel with the sole intention of exterminating Jews from the geography. That Arab Nazi agenda was latterly ratified and commanded in both the 1964 Palestinian National Council Charter and the 1988 Palestinian Hamas Charter. Having failed to achieve those objectives Arab countries absolutely refused to take in those Arabs and created the refugee problem that still exists. The Report states:
“In the Middle East itself the exodus of Jews from Arab lands has been even larger than the flight of Arabs from Israel. In 1948 there were almost 850,000 Jews in Arab lands. By 1973 there were less than 50,000. There is however one factor which distinguishes the bulk of Arab refugees from the millions of people who have left their homes and countries in previous decades because of political. ethnic or religious pressures. Every one of the non- Arab countries that received a flood of refugees did their best to resettle the new arrivals. India, Pakistan, West Germany, Biafra, South Viet Nam and Israel all launched successful programs of absorption. On the other hand, the Arab countries prevented the resettlement of refugees. The reason for this unprecedented callousness to their own brethren on the part of many Arab leaders was avowedly political. For years Arab leaders have denounced and thwarted all attempts to resettle the refugees in empty lands away from Israel’s borders”.
The Report is clear and unambiguous about both the unwillingness of the Arab countries to engage in peace and also about the strenuous attempts made by the Jewish leadership to ensure the Arab population did not leave as ordered by the Grand Mufti. I quote – “At the invitation of the British administration a meeting was called of leading citizens of the Arab and Jewish communities to arrange an end to the fighting. The Jewish Mayor, Shabetai Levy, implored the Arabs of Haifa to stay in their homes and guaranteed their safety. The answer of the Arab National Committee was a memorandum sent to the Governments of the Arab League on April 27, 1948 stating – ‘The signing of a truce would be a disgrace to the Arab population ……our delegation proudly refused to sign the truce and asked that the evacuation of the Arab population and their transfer to neighboring Arab countries be facilitated. The British military and civil authorities and the Jewish representatives expressed their profound regret at this grave decision. The Jewish Mayors adjourned the meeting with a passionate appeal to the Arab leaders to reconsider’”.
Arabs are disinterested in the plight of Palestinians and the newly created Palestinians themselves are not interested in peace with their Jewish neighbors.
Indeed, both Palestinian charters referred to above demand war and victory only by Jihad – peace is not an option. Imagine this fact being given mainstream media coverage, let alone the Jew extermination Articles within both Palestinian charters
Muslims have colonized vast swathes of the Middle East and Africa. Afghanistan once Buddhist have exterminated Buddhists and Buddhism; Iraq once Christian is now Islamic. So too once Maronite Lebanon and once Coptic Egypt; the Sahel countries and Iran have all succumbed to Islamic colonialism whereas Israel retains its historic Jewish identity. As Joseph Farrah the renowned Arab historian and writer stated – “The Arabs own and occupy 99.98 per cent of the Middle East, the Jews less than 0.02 percent – and that is just too much for the Arabs, they want it all. And that’s what the fighting is all about”.
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