Palestinians Arab Refugees - by Choice

Though implored and welcomed by the Jews of Palestine to stay as citizens of the new State of Israel in 1948, the majority of Palestinian Arabs instead "chose" to leave Israel during and just prior to Her War of Independence. Arab leaders promised a quick victory, with spoils. The Palestinian Arabs were urged to leave, and ensured that they would swiftly return to their homes and enrich themselves with the plunder from the defeated Jews. Great numbers of Palestinian Arabs "chose" to leave. Israel won. Why, now, should Israel be required to take in those "refugees" and their descendants as part of a peace agreement? Shouldn't this be the responsibility of the pan-Arab leadership?

The Palestinian Arab refugee camps were initially temporary housing, but were ingeniously retooled, by Arab leaders, to lay blame squarely on Israel for the retched state of their occupants. This deception, then as today, has been routinely endorsed by the UN and the international media. It has been used strategically to suggest that the Palestinian Arab refugees are deserving of a" law of return", equivalent to the worldwide historic return of the Jewish refugees to their homeland after 2000 years of exile. But the Jews never left by choice, they were forced out. In addition, magically magnified numbers of Palestinian refugees, living today, have fictitiously grown to innumerable multiples which can be traced to generously imaginative Arabic sources. Their current inflated numbers operate similar to American voter fraud, social security or welfare fraud. They boast increased payouts and benefits to an infinitesimal number of questionable refugees. This is in addition to their prominently endorsed message that "the root cause of the Arab refugee crisis", is supposedly, all Israel's fault. -Though facts suggest a total fabrication.

Included among these refugees rolls are:

Unrecorded Dead Palestinians. Over 60 years of deceased Palestinians are still counted as living refugees while their relatives acquire international aid and UN relief benefits. – see -UN Document A/4478 p.13

Pre-State of Israel Palestinians. Current and past Arab residents of the "West Bank" of Jordan and the Gaza Strip are registered as refugees.

Jordanian border communities with "refugees", and self-supporting former refugees in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.

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"It must not be forgotten that the Arab Higher Committee encouraged the refugees flight from their homes in Jaffa, Haifa, and Jerusalem."- Near East Arabic Broadcasting Station, Cypress 1949

"the Secretary General of the Arab League, Azzam Pasha assured the Arab peoples … that the millions the Jews had spent on land and economic development would be easy booty, for it would be a simple matter to throw Jews into the Mediterranean… advice was given to the Arabs of Palestine to leave their land, homes, and property and to stay temporarily in neighboring fraternal states,"- Sec. Gen of the Arab League-(spokesman for the combined Arab States)Habib Issa, Al Hoda, NY Lebanese daily June 1951

"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"- Sada al Janub, August 1948

"The fact that there are these refugees is the direct consequence of the action of the Arab States in opposing partition"-Sept 1948 Daily Telegraph

Haifa's Arabs "fled in spite of the fact that the Jewish Authorities guaranteed their safety and rights as citizens of Israel" "Every effort is being made by the Jews to persuade the Arab populace to stay… to be

Palestinian Arab refugee ration lists from Jordan alone "are believed to include 150,000 ineligibles and many persons who have died."-UNRWA Director, 1959

Palestinian Arab "births are always registered for ration purposes, but deaths are often, if not usually, concealed…" –UN doc. A-1451 UNRWA Director, 1950