This movie is dishonest and misleading

Wow, you sure told me! Just a minute, I'm crying too hard at your insults to type. Sheesh.

I see you ignored everything I wrote. The Arab nations, the Palestinian Commission at the time, the various Arab higher-ups - they all agree that THEY are to blame for telling the Palestinians to leave the land so that they could kill all the Jews- and then when they were done killing Jews, the Palestinians could come back. They all agree that they did this, causing the Palestinians to be refugees because in the end they did NOT complete their plan and kill all the Jews in the land. And after that, they turned their back on the Palestinians instead of doing the right thing and VERY EASILY settling them into the various Arab countries.

You simply ignored this admission of guilt because it didn't fit into what you want to believe. You are so desperate to continue with the Palestinians: GOOD and Jews: BAD that you won't look at some actual FACTS and say "Hmmm, maybe I'm wrong."

Benny Morris has long realized that he made a mistake and is now singing a totally different tune. He made a small but critical error in reporting what David Ben Gurion said- Ben Gurion actually said that the Jews DID NOT need to expel the Palestinians from the land. Morris mistakenly thought he said that the Jews DID need to expel them. He made a mistake, admits it freely, and today sees the error of his ways.

Speaking of Deir Yassin, I just read a 1980 interview with the commander of that operation. The Arab and Jew-hating world has been perpetrating a lie regarding what happenened there for so many years. There was no massacre- the Jews went in, fought rough door-to-door combat until they were able to raise the flag in the middle of the village. They took the remaining villagers and trucked them to another Arab city and dropped them off. That was it. I'm sure you won't believe this, why am I even bothering with the truth- maybe someone out there who isn't prejudiced will be interested in knowing the truth.

I hate to break it to you, but the Jewish people aren't the type to go in for massacres. The Palestinian terrorists you seem to side with do it so much better. I'm not saying that the Israelis didn't force out some of the Palestinians. After all, they attacked the Israelis and were an enemy population who were willing to kill any Jew they could find. Did you know that during the War of Independence, the Arabs would often raise the white flag of surrender- the Israelis would approach, and the Arabs would drop the flag and start shooting them? Did you know that just before the Deir Yassin NON-MASSACRE, those lovely Palestinians massacred over 50 Israeli doctors and nurses?

So yes, some Palestinians were forced out. There was a war on, after all- started, remember, by the Arabs, not the Jews. But the number is such a small percentage of the Pals who left of their own accord. Read this, if you aren't afraid of some actual facts by a non-interested party:

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, 1948, 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:

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

-DID YOU READ THAT LAST LINE? THEY WISH THEY HAD STAYED. They would have become Israeli Arabs, with Israeli citizenship, living in some of the best conditions in the entire Middle East (Not including oil sheiks- I'm talking about regular people).

Have you ever met an Israeli Arab? I have- quite a few. Many from Haifa, actually. They are doctors, lawyers, professors- and not one of them would move to any Arab country. Not one.

By the way, the city that man was talking about, Haifa- had many Jews and Arabs before the war. It still does, in fact. The Jews begged the Arabs to stay- passed out leaflets, begged on Arabic radio- but the Arabs left anyway, for the reasons mentioned above. The ones who stayed are lucky. They avoided becoming lifelong refugees.

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