Reply #63: The "creation of Israel" did not cause a single refugee.

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The mere creation of the state could not have caused refugees, since that is only the establishment of a government. What caused the refugees was the war over Israel's creation. Trying to blame the refugees on Israel's creation is just a back handed way of saying that Israel shouldn't exist and that the Palestinians had the right to start a war to destroy it. Good luck with that argument.

That's a completely different claim from saying that some of the Palestinians were forcibly evicted by the Israelis during the war. That's a factually true statement. The issue is then what is to be done about the few who were forcibly evicted and who have not yet been let back into Israel, or at least given the option.

But trying to blame all of the current crop of stateless Palestinians on Israel's creation is just a lie, and more anti-Israel propaganda that does not help the Palestinians. The reason is that it might resonate with the anti-Israel crowd in Europe or elsewhere, but it just makes the Israelis continually aware that the Palestinians are more interested in destroying them than in getting a state of their own.