Claim

Israel commited ethnic cleansing.

Fact

What is important to understand is that the post the WWII period was known for having mass displacement of tens of millions of people around the world. The 1947 partition of India/Pakistan caused 14 million displaced people! The displacement of Arabs and Jews (more Jews fled Arab countries than Arabs fled Israel) caused by the Israeli Arab war in 1948 was neither unique nor very big compared to what was going on in the rest of the world at the same period. The fact that of the 81.6 million of displaced people between 1940–1960, only the Palestinians have not moved on and still live in refugee camps(!) in the hope of reversing history is indeed sad for them.

• 1940-1945 - 40 million Europeans displaced
• 1948-1950 - 1 million Ukrainians, Russians, Belarusians
• 1940-1950 - 13 million Germans from Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland
• 1945-1950 - 11.3 million forced laborers from Europeans countries to Germany
• 1947 - 14 million Partition of Pakistan-India
• 1945-1950 - 0.75 million Arabs. 0.8 million Jews - Establishment of Israel
• 1954-1956 - 1 million Vietnam. Christians fleeing north to south

 

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