In the debate in the Security Council, Ambassador Warren Austin, the U.S. Representative to the UN, declared: “The United States is firmly of the opinion that the restrictions which Egypt is exercising over ships passing through the Suez Canal are inconsistent with the spirit and letter of the Armistice Agreement.” Source: Regional Development for Regional […]
“Who brought the Palestinians to Lebanon as refugees, suffering now from the malign attitude of newspapers and communal leaders, who have neither honour nor conscience? Who brought them over in dire straits and penniless, after they lost their honour? The Arab states, and Lebanon amongst them, did it! “You are welcoming thousands of Kurds and […]
“Why did not the Arab League declare openly: We have arrived at the decision to settle the refugees permanently in Syria and Jordan and on the basis of this decision we have discussed the question of compensation for those who will remain outside of Palestine. “Since the Arabs have consented to the reintegration why do […]
January 16, 1952 Turkish Refugees Perhaps an even better analogy can be seen in Turkey’s integration of 150,000 Turkish refugees from Bulgaria in 1950. The difference between the Turks’ handling of their refugees and the Arab states’ treatment of the Palestinians was the attitude of the respective governments. Turkey has had a bigger refugee problem […]
The Jordanian daily al Urdun quoted a refugee, Yunes Ahmed Assad, formerly of Deir Yassin, as saying: “The Arab Exodus… was not caused by the actual battle, but by the exaggerated description spread by the Arab leaders to incite them to fight the Jews… For the flight and fall of the other Villages, it is […]
“Now, from my own experience I would like to say that I asked, and made it a point to ask, some Arab refugees: ‘Would you go back to Israel and live under the Israeli Government if you could get your home back?’ “I asked that again and again, and I have yet to find the […]
Terrorists infiltrating from Jordan destroyed a house in the farming village of Mishmar Ayalon. Source: Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “Which Came First – Terrorism or ‘Occupation?’ Major Arab Terrorist Attacks Against Israelis Prior to the 1967 Six-Day War.” www.mfa.gove.il/mfa, March 31, 2002
June 11th, 1953 Arab Murder, Mayhem, and Massacre Terrorists shot to death a young couple in their home at Kfar Hess, and shot them to death. Source: Jewish Virtual Library, A Division of The American-Israeli Cooperation Enterprise. “Major Terror Attacks (1952-1989).” www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsouce/Terrorism/terror1952_1989.html
General John Glubb: “The Arab states thought that the Jews of Palestine were the same as the Jews of the Baghdad Bazaar in Iraq or the inhabitants of Wadi Abu Jamil in Beirut.” Source: Akhir Sa’a, July 1, 1953
January 4, 1954 Arab Say No to State of Israel King Saud of Saudi Arabia: “The Arab nations should sacrifice up to 10 million of their 50 million people, if necessary, to wipe out Israel….Israel to the Arab world is like a cancer to the human body and the only remedy is to uproot it […]