Posted on 01/21/2016 2:19:44 PM PST by Olog-hai
It is a common misconception that around 650,000 Palestinian refugees were created because of fighting that took place in 1948. But a closer look at both the population data and statements made by UN officials at the time suggest that the true figure is much lower, possibly as low as 270,000.
The conventional figure of 650,000 cannot be true for more than one reason. Firstly, there were fewer than 660,000 Arabs living in the part of Palestine that eventually became Israel; and secondly, UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency), either through incompetence or deliberate manipulation, handed out multiple identity cards to the same persons, some of whom were not refugees at all but permanent residents who took advantage of the aid offered by UNRWA. This is attested by UNRWA officials. [...]
This was not the only fraud committed by the refugees. Another was the concealment of natural deaths so that families could continue to collect the deceased person's food. Births, however, were always registered. In 1951, UNRWA reported that "it is still not possible to give an absolute figure of the true number of refugees as understood by the working definition of the word." ...
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Wow! 300,000 sided with the Islamic armies against the fledgling State of Israel. Why didn’t their Islamic brothers find a home for them? Oh, that’s right, they kept them in squalor camps in order to create a faux humanitarian crisis...
Also, the other Muslim nations have always seen this group of people as disgusting and want NOTHING at all to do with them.
Their numbers were actually much lower, because the same people were counted twice, and they didn’t report their deaths.
This stinks. It not as if anyone has adverse motives...
Can it already.
And at the same time, Jews were expelled from all over the Arab world.
1948
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