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Abu Mazen wrote in an article entitled
"Madha `Alamna wa-Madha Yajib An Na`mal" [What We Have Learned and What We
Should Do], published in "Falastineth-Thawra" [Revolutionary Palestine], the
official journal of the PLO, Beirut, March 1976, "The Arab armies entered
Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist tyranny but instead,
they abandoned them, forced them to emigrate and to leave their
homeland...The Arab States succeeded in scattering the Palestinian people."

Khaled al-`Azm, who served as Prime Minister of Syria in 1948 and 1949, wrote
in his memoirs (published in Beirut, 1973), that among the reasons for the
Arab failure in 1948 was "the call by the Arab Governments to the inhabitants
of Palestine to evacuate it and to leave for the bordering Arab countries,
after having sown terror among them...Since 1948 we have been demanding the
return of the refugees to their homes. But we ourselves are the ones who
encouraged them to leave...We have brought destruction upon a million Arab
refugees, by calling upon them and pleading with them to leave their land,
their homes, their work and business..." (Part 1, pp. 386-387).

Harry C. Stebbens, who was in an official position in the British Mandatory
Government in Palestine in 1947-48, wrote in the London Evening Standard
(Friday, 10 January, 1969):
"Long before the end of the British mandate, between January and April, 48,
practically all my Arab Palestinian staff of some 200 men and women and all
of the 1800 labor force had left Haifa in spite of every possible effort to
assure them of their safety if they stayed.
"They all left for one or more of the following reasons:

The Arab terrorism engendered by the November, 1947, U.N. partition
resolution frightened them to death of their imaginative souls and they
feared Jewish retaliation.

Propagandists promised a blood bath as soon as the mandate ended in which the
street of all the cities would run with blood.

The promised invasion by the foreign Arab armies (which started on May 14,
1948, with the Arab Legion massacre of some 200 Jewish settlers at Kfar
Etzion) was preceded by extensive broadcasts from Cairo, Damascus, Amman, and
Beirut to the effect that any Arabs who stayed would be hanged as
collaborators with the Jews.

"The Palestinian Arabs were the victims then, as in 1967, of their own
propaganda, and having on the average no stomach for violence they ran. I
have met many of my Palestinian Arab friends since in Beirut, Damascus,
Amman, and in the Persian Gulf states, and they have all without exception
gladly told me that they had wished they had listened to me and stayed - as
did some 200,000 who became and still are the most economically advanced
Arabs in the Middle East.

The massacre of Kfar Etzion, the massacre of the hospital convoy killed 48
Jewish doctors and nurses, the continued shelling and blasting of Jewish
settlement for more than 20 years, has not caused one single Israeli to move
away. They sit tight and if necessary in their shelters while across the
river, where the shooting comes from, the towns and villages are deserted,
last year's crops still rot on the trees and the refugees move still further
away from any trouble."How long will the Palestinian Arabs continue the myth
that they were kicked out, every time they ran away from trouble and got
themselves into more trouble?"

Jamal Husseini, in charge of the Palestine Higher Committee, told the
Security Council on 23 April 1948, "we have never concealed the fact that we
began the fighting."

On 6 September 1949, the Beirut Telegraph carried an interview with Mr. Emile
Ghoury, Secretary of the Palestine Higher Committee, in which he said:
"The fact that there are these refugees is the direct consequence of the act
of the Arab States in opposing partition and the Jewish State."

The Jordan daily Falastin wrote on 19 February 1949: "The Arab States which
had encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order
to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies, have failed to keep their
promises to help these refugees."

As late as 12 October 1963, the Cairo daily Akhbar el-Yom, recalled:
"15 May 1948 arrived...on that very day the Mufti of Jerusalem appealed to
the Arabs of Palestine to leave the country, because the Arab armies were
about to enter and fight in their stead..."

A British police report to Jerusalem Headquarters on 26 April 1948
attested: "Every effort is being made by the Jews to persuade the Arab
population to stay and carry on with their normal lives..."

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