Reddit reviews The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Yeah they do. They've been doing it since the founding of Israel. Read this, it's great, by an israeli with access to declasified historical documents no less.
http://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-Cleansing-Palestine-Ilan-Pappe/dp/1851684670

I had not heard of that site before, I'll check it out though. I've spent the last few years studying the history of the middle east. If you're interested, the following books are pretty solid:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679739882
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1851684670

It's obvious to any observer that it was ethnic cleansing. In fact there are many articles and books written about this. A good one is The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe.

> Focusing primarily on Plan D (Dalet, in Hebrew), conceived on March 10, 1948, Pappe demonstrates how ethnic cleansing was not a circumstance of war, but rather a deliberate goal of combat for early Israeli military units led by David Ben-Gurion, whom Pappe labels the "architect of ethnic cleansing." The forced expulsion of 800,000 Palestinians between 1948-49, Pappe argues, was part of a long-standing Zionist plan to manufacture an ethnically pure Jewish state. Framing his argument with accepted international and UN definitions of ethnic cleansing, Pappe follows with an excruciatingly detailed account of Israeli military involvement in the demolition and depopulation of hundreds of villages, and the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Arab inhabitants.

http://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-Cleansing-Palestine-Ilan-Pappe/dp/1851684670

Sigh..

> Would the Palestinians have had to leave if violent panarabist states hadn't initiated a war with the newly independent state of Israel?

Please read a history book. (For instance Ilan Pappe). Almost half a million Palestinians had been ethnically cleansed by Jewish terrorists before the neighbouring countries intervened to halt the unfolding catastrophe.

> They had several countries to flee too. How about the Arab countries that were partially responsible for there predicament in the first place? There connection to any of the myriad of Arab countries would be no less weak than the connection of the expelled Arab Jews to the newly formed state of Israel.

Yet, to this day, Palestinians remain stateless.

I don't think I've EVER seen a pic of Harper with a grin like that.

It's not Apartheid, it's ethnic cleansing.

They want the Palestinians gone, South Africa wanted to keep the blacks subjugated.

Ilan Pappe: "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" if you feel like getting the full story.

I've read this. I thought it was excellent. http://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-Cleansing-Palestine-Ilan-Pappe/dp/1851684670

>It is just being pointed, by_the_Palestinians_themselves that the main cause of their leaving was the Arab attack

Lord, I guess when you drink that Zionist kool-aid you often start to hallucinate. Pray tell, which Palestinians "point out" that the main reason they fled or were forced out of their homes was the "Arab attack"? Better go back to munching on your urinal cake.

The main reason for the flight of the Palestinians was the deliberate intent by the Zionists to expel them. This sad fact is burned into Palestinian consciousness. The cognitive dissonance must be painful for you when you're reminded about these matters, so you resort to such absurdities as to pretend that Palestinians believe themselves to blame!

ethnic cleansing:

http://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-Cleansing-Palestine-Ilan-Pappe/dp/1851684670

According to Benny Morris, Ben Gurion in 1938 said:

"I support compulsory [Palestinian Arab population] transfer. I do not see in it anything immoral."

So, spare me your denials...its as disgusting as Holocaust deniers.

As for bombing people...oooohhh, where do I begin...shall I start with the car bombings, letter bombings, and other terror attacks by the Irgun and Haganah? Shall I talk of the slaughter of Palestinians between 1948-1950 who were trying to return home? The Massacres in 1955? What about 1956? Shall I speak of 1967? Shall I talk off the attack on Lebanon in 1978? Or the bombing of Beirut in 1982 that killed 20,000 civilians? Or how about the bombing of Lebanon in the mid-90s? 2006? Shall I speak of Gaza 2008 and the horrid ghetto it is now?
Ohhh so, so much blood and destruction...all for your glory, o Israel.

Here's a good place to start. It's written by a jewish israeli guy, so it's obviosly biased to a degree in favor of israel... however I don't think you could get a book more honest than this published in the west. You couldn't get one published that was nearly this honest if it had not been written by a jewish israeli.

http://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-Cleansing-Palestine-Ilan-Pappe/dp/1851684670

Two books you may find interesting:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374531501/ref=od_aui_detailpages01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1851684670/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_2?smid=A3PKWPJZ8PSW04&psc=1

also

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/pentagon-predicts-israel-will-drag-us-into-war-with-iran-7579420.html