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In us.military.army Chad Irby wrote:

Considering that Israel has only killed, since the start of the last
Intifada in 2000, about 2600 Palestinians (most of whom were armed or
standing around people who were armed and shooting) out of a population
of 8.7 million, you're horribly abusing that "ethnic cleansing" phrase.

You dishonestly restrict the use of the word, both in time, and in impact.
Ethnic cleansing is the only word to describe the concerted *60 YEAR*
effort to drive Palestinians out of their native land into neighboring
arab
countries. Murder, assassination, torture, intimidation, racism,
harassment, destruction of infrastructure, destruction of economy,
destruction of farmland, theft of water, environmental destuction.

The message is quite clear. It is "Get out or suffer".

The Arabs were blunt in taking responsibility for starting the war. Jamal
Husseini told the UN Security Council on April 16, 1948:

"The representative of the Jewish Agency told us yesterday that they were
not the attackers, that the Arabs had begun the fighting. We did not deny
this. We told the whole world that we were going to fight".

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Arab League Secretary Azzam Pasha on September 16, 1947 -

"The Arab world is not in a compromising mood. It's likely, Mr. Horowitz,
that your plan is rational and logical, but the fate of nations is not
decided by rational logic. Nations never concede; they fight. You won't get
anything by peaceful means or compromise. You can, perhaps, get something,
but only by the force of your arms. We shall try to defeat you. I am not
sure we'll succeed, but we'll try. We were able to drive out the Crusaders,
but on the other hand we lost Spain and Persia. It may be that we shall lose
Palestine. But it's too late to talk of peaceful solutions."

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Had the Arabs accepted the 1947 UN resolution, not a single Palestinian
would have become a refugee. An independent Arab state would now exist
beside Israel. The responsibility for the refugee problem rests with the
Arabs.

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Their intentions were declared by Azzam Pasha, Secretary-General of the Arab
League: "This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which
will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades."

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Ah yes, damn the Israelis and their 60 year campaign of 'Ethnic cleansing
'...