The Nakba: Anatomy of a Crime

There was no excuse for the Jews throwing the Arabs off the land in 1948. We conquered Germany and Italy in World War 2. So did we throw the Germans and Italians out of their towns and cities and annex them to the US?

We've fought plenty of wars since WW2 against all sorts of foes and we never threw the residents out of their towns so we could steal the land and make it part of the US. You don't get to do that in wars!

All wars of conquest were made illegal after WW2 at the Geneva Conventions. You can defeat an enemy, sure, but you can't throw him off his land and then steal it for yourself!

I've been through a long list of Arab towns "depopulated" by the Jews in 1948. Bottom line is that in almost every single case, the Arabs were literally driven out of town at gunpoint. In a number of cases they were packed into trucks and taken to Gaza or Lebanon.

They only fled in a few cases, and in those cases, they fled because the Jews were committing massacres and then sending spies to Arab vil…