CLAIM: There was no ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Arabs in Israel in 1948 since 20% of Israeli citizens today are Muslim Arabs.
RATING:
False
An ethnic cleansing does not require that every single member be expelled from a region.
Zionist forces did undertake a large, pre-planned ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1947–1949 (as documented in Plan Dalet), expelling roughly 750,000 Palestinians while burning down their villages, seizing their land, and largely preventing them from returning. They expelled many more under the cover of the 1967 war, though they still didn’t manage to expel them all.
There are several reasons why a minority of Arabs remain: some Israelis fought to keep their local Arab populations because they employed them in their various businesses. Other Palestinian Arabs were in remote villages that the Hagenah military apparatus simply never managed to reach. Still others were expelled, but later returned across the border.
These exceptions don’t negate the fact that Zionists intentionally and forcefully expelled over a million Palestinians over the decades to create a Jewish-majority state.
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Keep trying to invent history. The palis didn’t exist until the mid 1960s.
One other fun fact – every group, every political organization, and every government that has ever tried to destroy the Jews has been destroyed. Fun fact #2 Israel has never been stronger.