[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

There is no record of any such Arab orders, as Israel had claimed.

LOL!!! How about as multiple contemporaneous A-R-A-B sources have publicly admitted, then; theose same contemporaneous A-R-A-B sources the existence of which you've been scuttling away from in frantic, wide-eyed terror, like Dracula from the cross?

NOT "as Israel has claimed," mind.

AS. A-R-A-B-S ARABS. HAVE. CLAIMED.

Six evasions... and counting.

Rebut... or withdraw.

You're only embarrassing yourself, at this juncture. :)

[ultima ratio]

BBC has no record--and they have ALL THE BROADCASTS on record for that time. ALL. They monitored EVERYTHING, EVERY HOUR. Neither do the Israeli archives show any record. Neither does any other entity monitoring radio at that time. I couldn't care less about what Arab sources say. I don't know what their motives are for saying what they say. I only know there is no evidence anywhere of any such Arab broadcasts--none, zilch. Besides, the exodus was sudden, abrupt--people left without clothes or possessions, families were separated. The evidence was of mass panic--as of people fleeing from terror. It was not an orderly exodus. Not only this but western journalists on the ground interviewed survivors who spoke of massacres carried out by militias later identified as Haganah and Irgun. Count Bernadotte reported these shortly afterward to the General Assembly. Later he was assassinated by the Stern Gang.

I had said I didn't want to get into this. It's not a pleasant exchange because it churns up a lot of hostility. But facts are facts.