The “Nakba” story dies on this primary source leaflet dated April 28, 1948.
The Haifa Workers Council and the Histadrut printed it and told the city’s Arabs not to leave.
“Do not destroy your homes with your own hands ... The gates are open for work, for life, and for peace, for you and your families.”
That week, British police in Haifa had reported the same thing. Jews were trying to keep shops open and to guarantee Arab lives and property. Ben-Gurion sent Golda Meir to say it to Haifa’s Arab residents face-to-face. Tens of thousands of them left anyway.
“Nakba” first named the Arab failure to destroy the Jewish state. Later it was rebranded as a Jewish expulsion order. Look to Haifa and test that theory. There was no order to get out. There was a printed appeal to stay in multiple languages.
The Arab Higher Committee called anyone who remained under Jewish protection a “renegade.” Its chairman, Jamal Husseini, told the Security Council the Arabs “preferred to abandon their homes, their belongings, and everything they possessed in the world and leave the town.”
Most of Haifa’s 62,000 Arab residents walked out. A few thousand stayed. They became citizens of the new state, and today their grandchildren vote in Israel.
The expulsion story requires this page not to exist.
@macmaddiec@ded93x Retard, that's not what I said. I said I replied to one of your posts on your page and the other one was a comment you posted on a post on my feed. Did you purposefully pretend not to understand or are you just stupid?