'According to United Nations figures, 726,000 Palestinians left Israeli-controlled territory between 1947 and 1949. In December 1949 the UN (in response to a British proposal) established an agency (UNRWA) to aid Palestinian refugees. The agency still operates and is the only UN agency dedicated to a single group of refugees.
Over the next twenty years 850,000 Jews (almost the entire Jewish population) left the Arab world.
At the end of the war, Egypt remained in occupation of the Gaza Strip and Transjordan annexed the "West Bank" and eastern Jerusalem, including the Old City. Jordan and Egypt did not establish an independent state for Palestinian Arabs and made no effort to facilitate the establishment of Palestine. Except in Jordan, Arab refugees that left Palestine were settled in refugee camps and denied citizenship and civil rights by the Arab countries that hosted them.'
The BBC love to tell the story of the poor dispossessed Palestinians and the way they are forced to live in 'refugee camps'. They are less interested in telling the tale of the larger number of Jews forced from their homes in Arab countries but peacefully and willingly absorbed into Israel.
The BBC love to blame Israel for the living conditions of Palestinians in Gaza but never mention the Palestinian 'refugee camps' in Lebanon or their treatment by their Muslim brothers after 1948.
WHY?
3 comments:
Because the BBC is institutionally anti-semitic.
O/T, but I have given up on Noble Caledonian asking why Israel does not appear on their maps. No response at all. Sadly, Mr. Goat, you were right.
Grant re O/T: I hate to say 'I told you so'...
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