This is an incredible tired trope. Whatever you call them, they are at least humans. I could not be a stronger supporter of Israel, but these articles are essentially saying that there were no Arabs living on the land that is now Israel in 1946, in a place then called Palestine. There were. Some of them left willingly expecting correctly that there would be a war, but incorrectly expecting that the Arab states would win it. Some were driven out of their homes by the fledgling Israeli military forces. Either way, they do exist, and if they would be willing to make peace with Israel, they could have nice lives in the West Bank.
Plenty of Arabs live in Israel and get along just fine with the Jews there. It’s the best place in the Middle East for an Arab to live, and it isn’t even close.