[Phil V.]

Those who fled were in no way encumbered with "final solution" guilt. Their "reality" was entirely parochial. When you say that "they started the war" you rather cutely absolve the new State of Israel of the expected consequences (social dislocations) attendant with Zionism. Jabotinsky understood. I suspect that the Arabs understood Jabotinsky more clearly than did the Jews.

[Publius6961]

When you say that "they started the war" you rather cutely absolve the new State of Israel of the expected consequences (social dislocations) attendant with Zionism.

Zionism caused no social dislocations. Why then, did 400,000 arabs have to be told by other arabs, to leave the new State of Israel? Isn't that rather like the kid who kills his parents and then pleads mercy on account of being an orphan?