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Sure mention both sides but also put the figures in perspective. The Jews expelled 70x as many Palestinians as the other way around. The scale of the violence differential is and always has been this skewed between Israel and the Palestinians.I believe every situation or conflict has to be examined from both sides (even ones as extreme as the holocaust) and then weighed upon, everyone is granted due process.
- The conflicts in the Palestinian Mandate looked to be proportional.
- The casualties looked proportional to the population but much more Arabs displaced in the Civil War.
- 1948 Arab-Israel war. 6,373 killed (about 4,000 troops and 2,400 civilians) -Israeli, Between 12,000 and 20,000 (troops and civilians)among which 4,000 soldiers for Egypt, Jordan and Syria with much more Arabs displaced
Now really, you don't think both sides casualties and attacks deserve a mention?
I never denied that the Arab states had their own interests but that doesn't justify what Israel has done. Jordan actually integrated the majority of its Palestinian refugee population. Definitely better to be born in Jordan as a Palestinian than in the occupied territories.However small it was there was always a Jewish presence in Judea/Palestine and by 1948 they had purchased enough land to have a claim on at least a part of a currently stateless region. The Arabs could not tolerate even a sliver of "Muslim" lands being controlled by the Jews so they went to war. This seems a lot more obvious then "They didn't have time for a counter agreement cause they were getting ethnically cleansed". Also when you talk about a raw deal for the Palestinians, the Arabs couldn't even from 1948-1967 form a state for the Palestinians when they had control of the West Bank and Gaza. Do you know why they didn't even try?