Roughly 260 villages were emptied and half a million Palestinians became refugees in 1948
Evidence
Is it the conflict which has caused the most suffering? No, by no means. No one can fail to be deeply moved by the long drawn-out sufferings of the Pales tinian refugees. But in the awful arithmetic of the twentieth century, they are among the privileged of refugees as compared to the countless unrepresented, unsponsored, unsupported millions of others who have fled or been driven from their homes in Europe, in Asia, in Africa, in Central America and elsewhere. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1599 (
#complicates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Palestinian refugees named the 1948 dispossession the nakba; Palestinian refugees fared better than countless other 20th-century refugee populations — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1599; A 1948 Israeli military plan explicitly ordered village destruction and expulsion — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 572 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Palestinian refugees fared better than countless other 20th-century refugee populations
#complicates(0.78) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1599 - Palestinian refugee status is reframed as manufactured and self-inflicted
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